The championship triangle: what every coach and player needs to know to be a winner
The benefits of sport are many, but the main objective is to win, whether the competition is with oneself or with an opponent. If you want to win, there are three critical keys to being a consistent champion. These three keys included the Championship Triangle. They are: 1. Intelligence, 2. Strength, 3. Skill. Simply put, champions are smart, strong Y expert.
1. Intelligence
Champions must be smart. They must think. The fight is between the ears, that is, in the head, the mind, the brain. A warrior with strength and skill but no intelligence will lose to a more intelligent opponent. Champions win not so much by brawn but by brains. An army without a command center is not an army at all. How many times in the world of competitive athletics, whether at the amateur or professional level, have players or teams lost solely because of a stupid and stupid act in the closing moments of the competition? The annals of sport are awash with teams that lost through lack of intelligence.
Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese warlord of 2,500 years ago, in his epic work, The Art of War declares: War is a serious concern of the state. must be thoroughly studied. First, notice that it says that warfare (peaceful or not, as in competitive athletics) must be studied. Studying means using the mind and all its faculties. Notice that Sun Tzu does not say that war is based primarily on physical characteristics, ie muscle and strength. It is based on the mind. Note, too, that he makes the categorical point that war must not only be studied but thoroughly studied. Think of all the great coaches in any sport. They were thinkers first and foremost. The same is true for the big players. They use their minds, their intelligence to ensure victory, and they use it before anything else. Therefore, to be a winning coach, player, or team, championship laurels begin in the head with the use of active and imaginative intelligence.
2.Strength
Many athletes may equate strength only to physical progress. not so What is the use of having physical progress and not being able to control it. Having strength means having discipline and self-control, as well as physical strength.
Strength comes in three types: 1. mind, 2. body, 3. spirit. We have talked about the mind. Body strength involves not only muscular power, but also physical endurance and endurance. How many contests have been lost in the final phase of a match because one team was in better shape than another? A team can have great athletes, but if they are not well prepared, they will not be consistent winners. Ultimately, players must have strength of spirit, an indomitable will that refuses to die, refuses to be defeated, refuses to buckle under the pressure of strife. A person may have a strong body and mind, but if his spirit is weak, he will eventually collapse. Likewise, an athlete may have a strong will and mind, but if his body does not have the physical strength to withstand competition, he may fall prey to a physically stronger and fitter opponent. Therefore, when it comes to strength, the Championship Triangle of Intelligence, Strength, and Ability has an internal strength triangle of body, mind, and will.
Another aspect of strength is the control of one’s emotions. Once again, how many championships have both amateurs and professionals lost because they were too weak to control their emotions and “lost” – their self-control and the game – by engaging in some idiotic action that guaranteed their demise. One has to have passion and fire to be a champion, but that passion and fire must be controlled. If players don’t control themselves and coaches don’t train their players to control their emotions, everyone is headed down the path of defeat. Warriors contain and control their emotions in the heat of battle… until the end of the battle because they know that if they lose control they will lose the fight.
3. Skills
It goes without saying that without the skills relating to a particular sport, one cannot even play the sport, let alone win. Champions must have abilities. Such skills take time, effort, discipline, control, blood, sweat, tears, struggle, and a relentless will to hone to championship status in order to separate themselves from “runners-up” and “runner-ups.” Those abilities are not simply technical abilities, but also include the mental and physical abilities of The Championship Triangle.
Resume
The Championship Triangle consists of 1. intelligence, 2. strength, 3. skill. In other words, champions must be Elegant, strong Y expert. These three components must work together in harmony. Two are not enough to create victory. Coaches and players alike must imbue them… all the way. Champions exude these three characteristics at the highest level and everything else, well, is just the rest, at least until they imbue these three critical components of the ultimate winner as well. In any sport there is only one true champion during a season. To appease people’s sensitivities, some people say that everyone is a champion just because they competed. Such sentiments not only diminish and disrespect those who truly excel and are No. 1 in their sport, but also reflect a growing illusion that all competitors are champions. not so Champions are those individuals and teams whose skill and ability to execute surpass all other competitors. So it is and so it should be. To do less, to be less, is to deny and despise what it is to be a true champion.
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