The Winning Mindset

Congratulations to Laurence Halsted and Chrystall Nicoll on their respective bronze medals in Tokyo and Koblenz – it’s great to see team mates doing so well and it also raises the bar for the rest of us to follow suit. I definitely feel inspired by their performances and want a taste of their glory! They received coverage of their results on the BBC website which is nice to see, and rightly so. Fencing is gaining in respect and exposure in the national press and it will only improve in the build up to 2012. Here is the link for it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/fencing/8687701.stm

This is the best international season British Fencing have had so far and as Chrystall says in the BBC sports section, she now ‘expects’ the best from herself. Before, we were members of an underdog team, and too many times we were edged into defeat because we didn’t ‘expect’ to win. Now that British Fencing has developed a winning mindset & has grown in confidence and in strength, I cannot see us losing momentum. I am sure that this shift in mindset will deliver results.