oktober 2023

What can be improved in police training? And what role can scenario-based training play in this? What is scenario based training and what not? Do you need to practice skills before scenario training and is scenario training something you do at the end of a training day? What demands does scenario based training place on […]

What is choking under pressure? How to deal with your thoughts under performance pressure? What is better: emotion or problem focused coping? Listen to the second part of my conversation with Dr Adam Nicholls, professor of psychology at the University of Hull. Before you think he is only doing research: Adam is also an accomplished

Do you want to know what mental toughness is? And how we as trainers can teach it to our students and first responders? Do you want to know how to develop Challenge instead of Threat States in your students? And what is the relation between personality traits and developing mental skills? What are mental skills

There come’s a time that the roles will be reversed. Over the past 40 years, I have had many role models that I looked up to. Who saved me from a violent and unsafe childhood. I looked up to those men who became my rock and my shoulder. Karate sensei’s van Hurck, budo master Chris

There is much and justifiable focus on breathing techniques aimed at self-regulation. Think tactical breathing, extended exhalation, physiological sighing, 1 breath reset and so on. But what about breathing during the ‘fight’? Did you ever tried to grapple on the mat or on the street with a wrong breathing pattern? Chances are you were out