NeuroTracker KOL Profile: Pedro Gormaz

‍Pedro Gormaz  is a National Coach of the Royal Spanish Taekwondo Federation and an International Level 2 Coach under the World Taekwondo Federation. As an experienced high-performance coach, he is also founder of the International Center Sports Mental Coaching based in Madrid. Pedro specializes in training mental and cognitive performance using vanguard methodologies to prepare elite athletes to perform at their best under pressure.

About International Center Sports Mental Coaching

The International Center is where limits dissappear. It was founded with Pedro's belief that better athletes can be created through training at a higher level. Dedicated to using the latest technologies and training methodologies for performance enhancement, the center's experience in innovative training methods is focused on conditioning athletes to perform under pressure.

Although working with a core of Taekwondo athletes, which has included preparing the Argentine National Taekwondo Team for the Olympics, Pedro coaches a diverse range of sports men and women. For example conditioning Olympic rifle shooters to maintain acute focus in competition. The center is also truly international, being an active member of the European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI) and having partner branches in India and Panama. Pedro has also travelled externsively to showcase the center's methodologies for various sports institutes.

Heightening mental abilities is the key training strategy, based on identifying cognitive performance challenges and solutions to overcome them.

The end goal is to be able to help athletes process solutions faster and be more focused to make the best decisions.

Applying Next-Level NeuroTracker Training

Pedro is a veteran NeuroTracker practitioner. He has years of experience using this neurotech as the fundamental tool that his methdologies are centered around. This has led to Pedro evolving advanced dual-task training protocols for develops highly specific forms of skills training. With these techniques in his toolbox he can customize programs to each individual's precise performance needs.

Here is an example of training an Olympic shooter combing rifle stance with Optic Flow tasks.

You can also see in the video the use of a large 3D projector in a dedicated NeuroTracker room. This allows the training of wide variety of physical tasks and integration of training equipment such as exercise bikes, while actively stimulating peripheral visual systems in stereo 3D.

This is combined with custom remote training programs through the professional version of the NeuroTrackerX platform, helping accelerate the cognitive benefits with in-center training and at-home sessions completed 3 times per week.

Pedro makes active use of NeuroTracker baselines as talent detection test for youth athletes, in addition to assessing the cognitive prowess of clients at the outset of their training programs to identifying cognitive strengths and abilities that may require special attention.

Pioneering the Road to the Olympics Project

Founded by EPSI and co-funded by the European Union, this project is dedicated to supporting the athletic careers of elite Ukrainian athletes challenged by the adversities of the ongoing conflict.

Partners include the project leader The International Centre Sports Mental Coaching (Spain), NeuroTracker, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Olympiacos SPF (Greece), EU, EPSI and the Technological University of Shannon (Ireland), with commitment over multiple years.  

Support involves providing NeuroTracker and other neurotechnologies for 30 Ukrainian athletes and their coaches, along with mentorship of advanced training methodologies. SportsLapp, by Kinetic Analysis, will be used to collect and analyze data on the athletes’ performance levels.

The project took its first step on September 23rd when the athletes and coaches were initially set up and trained in Spain. More information about the project here.

The Road to the Olympics project is offering the opportunity for organizations to become a collaborator or ambassador for the project. To inquire contact petercoaching@internationalcenter.es

If interested in exploring some of Pedro's performance insight then check out his series of Experts Corner blogs.

Or to learn more about both in-center and remote services offered by the International Center Sports Mental Coaching, visit the website here.

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