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Marcus Kerti: "Children need more personal responsibility"

2021-03-15T16:04:55.190Z


The mental trainer and former ice hockey player knows that specialist training alone is not enough. The mental trainer and former ice hockey player knows that specialist training alone is not enough. Erding / Grafing - He knows what he's talking about. Marcus Kerti was an ice hockey player at EHC Klostersee for many years, after nine years in the league after he was young. After a serious injury, the now 42-year-old had to end his career and gained a lot of personal experience in the field of m


The mental trainer and former ice hockey player knows that specialist training alone is not enough.

Erding / Grafing - He knows what he's talking about.

Marcus Kerti was an ice hockey player at EHC Klostersee for many years, after nine years in the league after he was young.

After a serious injury, the now 42-year-old had to end his career and gained a lot of personal experience in the field of mental training and kinesiology (movement science) during this time.

He switched from bank clerk to mental trainer and now coaches professional teams in football, ice hockey, handball or volleyball, individual athletes, company boards, sick people, but also “completely normal people”.

At the invitation of the ice hockey department of TSV Erding, Kerti gave a lecture at the “1.

Offspring evening "via Zoom in front of around 90 interested parents.

Mr. Kerti, what do you think of when you think of Erdinger ice hockey?

Basically the good atmosphere in the Erdinger ice rink.

However, I never played against Erding when I was in the Oberliga because TSV wasn't in the Oberliga at the time.

What else do you have in common with Erding?

I had Stefan Teufel as a coach for a while in the junior team, and later I played with some Erdingers at EHC Klostersee, above all with my defender colleague Rudi Lorenz - at that time still a center forward (laughs).

And then you had to end your career after a serious injury.

They even had a thigh bone graft.

It was a difficult situation for me to no longer be able to do my beloved sport.

At least that was what the doctors said.

It was very challenging mentally.

One day I thought the doctors had no idea, the next day that they were absolutely right.

Until I came to the conclusion that there had to be something other than doctors and physiotherapy.

In addition, there were massive gastrointestinal problems due to the many medications I had to take.

Then I was more concerned with processes in the brain, started a self-study with mental components and actually played four more seasons at Bad Aibling in the regional league.

After your unexpected sporting comeback, you changed your career a few years later.

Yes, I then gave up my job as a bank clerk and started my own business as a mental trainer, stress coach and salutogeneticist.

They coach adults and children.

What is easier?

Children are much more accessible.

They are not as cerebral as we adults are.

You decide a lot based on your gut feeling and just try things out.

Adults often lack that, this intuition.

But pressure is often created in children too.

We are in an extreme performance society.

Unfortunately, our society still largely dictates faster, higher, further.

It follows from this: Only those who are the best or who are most stressed will be accepted.

This inevitably leads to pressure, even more stress and, in the long term, to health problems, not only for children.

Can you do something about it?

How can you reduce the pressure?

It takes a certain sustainability.

And there needs to be a balance between competitive and popular sport.

We should try: Who can I support and how, who can I additionally motivate so that he / she stays with it?

We shouldn't let anyone fall, because at the end of the day everyone is important to a team.

If coaches understand this, it will be easier for them in the future.

Just like in football, there are now more and more performance centers in ice hockey.

Curse or blessing?

I think a blessing and a curse at the same time.

We should also check the framework conditions here and check the reality.

What is "sold" to us and what is actually implemented in the academies.

Here I personally experience very strong differences, especially in the area of ​​personality development.

Basically, this is a good way to promote talent.

However, I think not at any price and certainly not at the expense of the children, who are often torn out of their familiar environment, their family, far too early.

I believe that ultimately it will be more the quality of the village clubs that will win the race if they are family-oriented for the future.

Here the philosophy of the clubs should be reconsidered and restructured in the current time.

If a club says: Only the best play for me, that's okay too.

But there is often a lack of clear, honest and open communication.

And then there are the parents.

Which are absolutely important, because otherwise a club life would not be possible.

Of course, parents like to get involved.

From my own perception, this only happens when there is no clear and open communication.

Both from the club and from the coach side.

It is important to have a clear line where everyone knows what is going on so that there are no misunderstandings.

But the parents can also exert influence from behind.

So basically it is the case that the children are rarely to blame when there is an argument or bullying in the team.

It is mostly the parents who have an indirect influence on the children.

Sometimes not on purpose, but quite unconsciously with comments such as: He can't really skate, or why is he playing in your line.

The parents are the caregivers.

Children absorb everything unfiltered and reproduce it one-to-one.

You do not yet question certain topics.

That's the truth.

That is what makes it so challenging for coaches.

What advice would you give parents?

They should raise their children to be more responsible.

For example, they shouldn't prepare their lunch every day and lay their clothes out for them or always carry their ice hockey bags.

Only with more personal responsibility do they get the necessary self-confidence and can take on responsibility in extreme situations, for example when the coach in ice hockey takes the goalkeeper off the ice shortly before the end and the team then plays six against five.

The children should and must gain experience and find solutions for themselves.

This is the most important thing in life.

Can't the trainers help?

The trainers can very well provide support.

But most trainers are overwhelmed by this topic and do not know how to approach the whole thing.

In the last few years you have mainly received specialist training.

Mental training would be so important to develop the children's personality.

Many would now probably say: It didn't need it in the past either.

That may be true.

But do we still drive through the city in carriages?

We have a completely different generation of children today.

They want to know everything, they want explanations, which, however, still overwhelms many coaches.

Unlike in the past, nowadays it's more of a teamwork between players and coaches - and that's exactly where we have to get there.

I think we trainers can learn certain things from the children if we get involved.

Now, during Corona, there are all sorts of challenges, and young trainers - like at TSV Erding - do regular online training with the children.

Is that enough to keep the young athletes happy?

We have been living in this madness for twelve months now.

Even if many children were still on the ice until November, the air is gone after four months of online training.

This is due to all the homeschooling and the lack of social contacts that we cannot replace online.

Children need their friends - and live.

That is why we have a hard time motivating the children for our online trainings.

Creativity is required here, and it pays to have a good rapport with your team ahead of time.

Because, in my observation, these trainers have a good participation in training, also online.

The exchange with the children and especially the parents is important at the moment.

That will also be the recipe for the future in order to be successful together with new ideas for action.

Source: merkur

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