Dave Collins
Colin and Sally have put pressure on the competitors by asking them to "up the ante."
But this will be nothing new to the good guys. They'll have been feeling it already but coping with it since the start.
The weaker guys might not have been feeling the pressure, nor coping with it and all of a sudden being caught out by it.
The guys who have arrived who come with good mental toughness and good strategies that are effective in competition will probably stay the same.
It's not so much that they'll ease away from the opposition, it's that the opposition will all of a sudden find themselves wanting.
The guys who are mentally weaker can cope with the short term pressure, like the Loughborough trials, but when it's for a longer periods, like here in Austria, they will start folding.
If one of the competitors came to me I'd ask them how they were feeling the pressure and where it was coming from.
Then I'd ask them how they were handling it.
I might say that their mental preparation for an event should be better.
Rather than standing around at the start of an event getting all twitchy, they should be going through the event itself.
Metal toughness is vital
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At the bottom of The Wall you might be kneeling down and practise getting the pegs in.
On Strike, in your mind's eye practising a few swings, possibly with your eyes closed. Just to get the right rhythm.
The second type of thing is the longer term preparation.
Lying about in the chalet zombied might be fine if you can kick start yourself in 45 minutes.
If you can't, work out how long it takes you to go from cold to your peak performance and give yourself that time.
It might be two hours it might be 20 minutes.
The good ones here will execute a good plan consistently, calmly and quietly.
They are in control. The others aren't losing control of the competition, they're losing control of themselves.
Lying about in the chalet zombied might be fine if you can kick start yourself in 45 minutes
