The last play doesn't get to choose the next one.
You can acknowledge a mistake without turning it into a judgment about yourself. A reset is a return to the next relevant action—even while frustration is present.
TAKE A MOMENT
What needs your attention on the next play?
Why this may help Research & context
Supported components
Routines, concise cues, acceptance-based action and pressure practice have supporting evidence. The exact four-step reset below has not been established as a superior named protocol in a strong trial.
Adapt when needed. Remove any step that lengthens rumination or creates a visible ritual the athlete cannot interrupt.
- A Comparison of Different Pre-Performance Routines as Possible Choking Interventions
Mesagno & Mullane-Grant · 2010. This tested preperformance routines, not this exact post-error sequence.
- Alleviation of Choking under Pressure in Elite Golf: An Action Research Study
Hill et al. · 2011. Tiny uncontrolled multicomponent intervention; no component, including the post-shot routine, can receive sole causal credit.
Adapted for Stridework from The Sport Psych Brief. Research on a method does not validate every personalized variation or this animation.