Stephen Dubienski, Sport Psychology Consultant

Episode 06 of Get Mental: The Mindset of Sport Instagram Live Series airs tomorrow at 1PM CT with another extraordinary guest. Red Bull Air Force Member, Stuntman, Coach, Pilot, World Record Holder, Team Member, Husband and Father - Miles Daisher. is an accomplished canopy pilot with more than 7,200 skydives and 5,500 BASE jumps. In 2005, he set a BASE jumping record by launching 57-times in a single day, climbing a total of nearly 29,000 vertical feet and performed a record setting 737 BASE jumps in one year. In June 2017 he reclaimed this record by completing 63 BASE jumps in 24 hours. Miles also created two new sports skyayking and rope swing BASE jumps.

Miles has been a professional parachutist since falling in love with canopies in 1995. He is a member of the Red Bull Air Force, a specialized team of expert pilots. He is experienced in demonstration jumps, Hollywood stunts, aerial camera work, coaching and motivational speaking.

Twin Falls, Idaho, home of the I.B. Perrine Bridge, has been his home for the past decade where he coaches Miles D's BASE camp, trains for stunts and jumps for fun. "It's a magical thing when you fly in the sky," says Miles Daisher.

Bio - www.milesdaisher.com
Photo - www.redbull.com

Announcing the launch of my new Instagram Live series, GET MENTAL - The Mental Side of Sport.

This series will provide a platform for open and honest discussions around mental training, and mental health in sport. The GET MENTAL series will feature athletes from all disciplines of sport, and exists to empower, support, provide guidance, and educate the next generation of athletes about mental training. This series will focus on the athlete's perspective, and their lived experiences. My goal is to have conversations that are transparent, entertaining and thought provoking while motivating athletes to incorporate mental training into their lives. It is known that high performance athletes push personal development daily with their discipline and purpose, while embracing The Process by 100 percent. What drives someone everyday to be their best often requires training not only around a specific physical skill set, but also the development of a strong mind.

Conversations in the GET MENTAL series will highlight wins and failures athletes have endured to reach their full potential.

Questions covered include:

How have they incorporated mental training into their training plan?

What are the critical mental support structures they have to allow for consistent progress?

When did they know they wanted to become a professional athlete - and how did that change or affect their mental perspective?

What were the hardest sacrifices made to achieve their dreams?

It’s time to explore how athletes become the best version of themselves in sport, and life.

Stay tune for the announcement our first guest athlete going live on Tuesday, May 5th.

Let’s GET MENTAL.

Attention all athletes, coaches and parents. I am pleased to announce that the new www.stephendubienski.com is now live. Training and strengthening the mind and body to reach optimal performance is essential in todays environment.

Stephen Dubienski, M.A. Sport Psychology, B.S. Sport Management Sport psychology, sport performance consulting and concussion management based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

With the honourable Ken Dryden's book 'Game Change' coming out, it will hopefully contribute to the solution taking forefront over the problem (concussions in sport - this injury can be drastically reduced). Two very important things need to change:

1-To provide the young athlete with rules and a culture to develop emotional respect and intelligence to not target the head. However, first, the coaches and parents need to lead the change to create a new prespective, so that the opportunity can even present itself to change in the mind of the athlete - where hockey is played with "no hits to the head, no excuses" Ken Dryden. I love the game and sport of hockey and yes fully understand the inherent risks of participating in contact sport produces - the exposure to head trauma. I do believe that hockey can be played still at a high physical level without the targetted headshots. I do believe that this will reduce the number of concussions affecting those athletes that have been exposed to concussions - just playing the game they love and have their head targeted from a hit from behind, dropping the groves, blind slide elbow etc. These acts can be taken out to save the sport but more importantly the athlete.

2-The athletes that are exposed to a concussion and struggling with long-term effects are able to receive the help psychologically through the recovery process.