Choking in penalty shootouts is an area which has been widely studied among sport psychologists. Much research has looked at the reasons as to why players choke, however there is very little research looking at intervention programmes to prevent it from happening. We shall look at two intervention strategies which can help prevent a player from choking. The main research around choking has been linked to an athlete’s attention when executing a particular skill. Wulf, Hob and Prinz (1998) attempted to address this issue by researching into a persons internal and external focus of attention. Internal focus is where a...
