Your opponent's greatest advantage is your lack of belief in your ability to do your best. Lynch shares his strategies to help you create the crucial edge over your opponent. Learn to understand the important message of self-doubt and confidently face each day of competition. Demonstrating heart is essential every time an athlete put their feet on to the playing field. Lynch discusses the characteristics of tough teams and teaches athletes how to create mental toughness from those characteristics. To cement these mentally, Lynch instructs athletes to use mental tools of meditation, visualization, and affirmation. Developing a competitive edge is about what we have to do to bring your best to the game. Through mental training, athletes can execute at their highest level with the competitive edge needed for success.

57 minutes. 2007.

Self-confidence is a determining factor for success in athletics. Learning to build self-confidence as well as learning to regain lost confidence requires knowledge, understanding, implementation, and constant maintenance. In this DVD, Dale highlights six key ingredients to build and maintain self-confidence:

1. 1) Understanding Confidence. Learn the answers to these key questions: What is confidence? Where does it comes from? Why is it so important?
2. 2) Self-Talk. Learn to use positive self-talk rather than negative self-talk.
3. 3) Be an Actor. Act confident to assist in building confidence.
4. 4) Trust Yourself. Learn how to use mental cues to assist in developing self-trust, i.e. self-confidence.
5. 5) Competition is the Reward. Embrace competition, rather than fear it.
6. 6) Mistakes Happen. Even the most confident athletes deal with mistakes. Learn strategies for dealing with self-disappointment in ways that will not shatter your confidence.

40 minutes. 2005.

Parental issues have become one of the defining factors for determining a coach's longevity, happiness, and satisfaction with the coaching profession. In this highly informative presentation, Dale takes an in-depth look at what factors into a parent's behavior and motivation. In addition, Dale takes a close look at what a coach can do to promote a proactive, positive, and coach-controlled atmosphere that will enable you to function "with" rather than "against" an athlete's parents. The uniqueness of Dale's presentation is that rather than looking at a particular individual's behavior, he feels it is imperative to understand the three types of families that a coach will encounter. Dale shares the traits of each of these family types, details the predictable behaviors of the parents and athletes, and gives key recommendations for how to best work with both parent and athlete from each family type. Dale then details how to present and implement parent behavioral strategies for game day and for establishing a positive parental alliance that best serves the needs of the athlete.

31 minutes. 2005.

In 2004, the Martelli-coached St. Joseph's Hawks finished their regular season with a 27-0 record, demonstrating a high degree of mental and physical toughness throughout the season. In this video, Coach Martelli reveals techniques and drills he uses with the Hawks that will help any team become tougher - mentally and physically - during competition. He includes time-tested drills for developing mental toughness, focusing on areas such as ball-handling, converting on easy scoring opportunities, as well as passing and catching on the go. With emphasis on the fundamentals, this video will help any team reach its physical and mental potential. Martelli discusses the goals and objectives for each step and demonstrates the drills that can be incorporated to help your team develop that skill or team concept. When all the drills are put together, you get a practice atmosphere that is competitive, fundamentally sound, and is related to your offensive and defensive schemes. This video will help you build team chemistry, trust, and the ability to depend on each other when the game is on the line!

69 minutes. 2005.