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Orderline: 01525 211380 (Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm) Last updated: August 2010 VAT Registration Number: GB 975 2228 03 Copyright © Playnasium.com 2002 - 2010 Playnasium.com is the UK online shop where you can buy football equipment and supplies including Samba goals, goal nets, football tape, football shirt numbers, goal net clips, and much more. Whether you need football coaching equipment for your team sessions, football gear for your school, or goalkeeper's clothing to equip yourself, we can help you. In fact, some of our products are not available anywhere else. Playnasium's customers include all levels of players and clubs, right up to the Premier League. Building Confidence in Children
Confidence has so many potential benefits for a child’s sporting success that it is difficult to overstate its importance. A confident child will pursue their training more eagerly and will stick at it longer, further improving their chances of success. Lack of confidence, on the other hand, can make a child give up sport altogether. So here are a few confidence-boosting tips:
* Try to avoid putting children in situations where they are of a lesser standard than most/all of those around them.
* Remember "Whether you say you can or you say you can’t, you are right." Whenever you hear the child voicing a negative thought such as "I’m useless at...", "I‘ll never be able to...", etc., remind them of a past success they have had. And after they finish each session, make a point of telling them what went right, what they achieved, how they improved, however small.
* Where possible, surround the child with positive, encouraging people.
* Of course, success is the ultimate key to confidence. If they are frequently successful, the child is obviously going to be highly confident of achieving success next time around. But what is success? It isn’t just about winning. If they‘re a runner, they might lose a race but still get a personal best time. Success or failure? Confidence could take a dive or go sky-high, depending on how they choose to look at it. Your job is to make sure they judge themselves by how well they do, not by whether anyone else happens to do better that day.
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Taktifol is an amazing electrostatic tactics sheet that allows coaches to easily demonstrate strategies to their team and do away with bulky tactics boards. Taktifol instantly adheres without pins, tape or anything else to (almost) any handy surface ... even the team bus! Here are the latest testimonials we have received from satisfied customers...
"Taktifol is a fantastic bit of equipment that every coach should have, it sticks to anything making it easy for me to show my team the tactics we will be using during the match. It is easy to store away, it saves alot of time and space. A must have."
Jason Lapworth
Leighton Corinthians Football Club
"Thanks for recommending the Taktifol team sheets and pens. They are so versatile and easy to use, all I do is roll out a sheet and stick it to the dressing room wall or door and write out my team and tactics on it. Its easy to clean so I can use it again and again."
Matt Crawley
Sarries United Football Club