One of the common or basic things that most people really enjoy doing is sports.It is absolutely one of the funnest things to do especially with family and friends.  It is also fun if you do it competitively.Iit is really something that most people enjoy much whether it is professional or amateur.  But sometimes that competitiveness can go way overboard. That spirit of competitiveness can really lead to anger sometimes.  In this article we are going to look at anger within sports and how it hurts or helps.

Now there are some sports that are seemingly violent like football or boxing. But within those sports, is there really a place for real anger.  Some people say there is, but what I have found from my San Diego sports psychology practice is that anger is really a detriment.  Even in seemingly violent sports when a person gets angry you really can’t think right. And contrary to the popular opinion that most sports are actually mental game and not just really physical.

So there is no place for anger in sports and that is my contention. Sometimes our very competitive nature that is built within us makes us angry when we lose. But if we really want to succeed in sports or in life, we should not get angry when things don’t go well. That is really a concrete recipe for failure.And for those parents who actually do put their children in sports and want them to succeed, I always give them advice. The advice I give them as a family therapist San Diego is to teach them how to control their anger.

But sometimes some people do use anger to motivate themselves. Sometimes, it just works for a time.But sometimes, in reality, that anger boils over into personal life as they actually begin to lose the ability and power to control it.  That is when I end up seeing a lot of patients in my anger management San Diego services.

So we all get mad at times in our lives and that is the reality.But we have to know how to control it in order for us to truly be successful in anything like sports.