KNOWLEDGE / GLOSSARY
A concise guide to the words behind WoosahX and mental preparation in sport. Explore a topic or read straight through—every definition is here.
The terms you meet when starting a personal session or working with a club.
WoosahX uses NeuroCoaching to describe personal mental preparation through digital video sessions. The content is guided by sporting goals and selected ideas from sport psychology and learning research.
Here, the term describes a training format, not a medical treatment.
Mental training is the deliberate practice of attention, imagery and responses to sporting situations alongside physical training.
A footballer might mentally rehearse how to refocus after a misplaced pass.
See mental training for footballA video session is a film with images, speech and sound tailored to personal goals for mental preparation. In the individual membership, a session usually lasts seven to ten minutes.
You can watch the same session repeatedly on a suitable device; VR is not required. The individual membership currently focuses on football; club programs can cover different sports.
Personalization means adapting content to a person’s information and goals. For individual members, the system creates sessions automatically from their profile and questionnaire.
For clubs, the process may also include conversations, coach feedback and a review by the WoosahX team.
A development goal names what an athlete wants to work on now; a skill is the specific ability or action connected with it.
In football, the goal might be to spot open space earlier and decide more clearly under pressure.
The Club Area is a protected space for clubs and organizations where authorized roles can manage or view profiles, development goals, sessions and information available to them.
What someone can see depends on whether they are an administrator, coach or athlete.
Explore the Club AreaHow athletes describe attention, confidence and their response to pressure.
Attention is how you select what to notice; focus means directing that attention to a relevant task and returning to it after a distraction.
Before receiving the ball, scanning space and teammates may matter more than dwelling on the previous play.
Self-efficacy is the belief that you can handle a particular task through your own actions. It is specific to a situation rather than a general promise of confidence.
A player may trust their ability to make themselves available again after a misplaced pass.
Emotion regulation means noticing feelings and managing how you respond to them. It does not mean simply suppressing nerves or disappointment.
After a missed chance, a brief conscious pause may help shift attention to the next action.
This is the move from dwelling on a past action back to the task at hand. The mistake is acknowledged without letting it determine the next decision.
After a misplaced pass: look up, recognize space and make yourself available again.
Competition preparation includes planned physical and mental readiness for a sporting task. The mental part can involve rehearsing relevant situations and intended responses beforehand.
A competition routine is a repeated sequence of actions before or during an event that can provide orientation.
For example: check equipment, breathe calmly and choose one specific cue for the next action.
Mental resilience describes how someone deals with pressure and setbacks and becomes ready to act again afterward. It is not fixed and does not mean never feeling affected.
Flow is deep involvement in an activity, when attention and action may come together closely. It is often described when challenge and ability are well matched.
Flow cannot be produced on demand and is not a promised result of a session.
Sporting decisions often have to be made quickly despite time pressure, opponents or strong emotions. Preparation can help athletes notice relevant cues and possible responses in advance.
A midfielder scans before receiving the ball to see a passing option sooner.
Ideas from sport psychology and learning research, explained without shortcuts or promises.
Motor imagery is mentally rehearsing a movement or game situation without performing it at that moment. Visualization can involve images, but also sounds or a sense of the movement.
It complements practice on the pitch rather than replacing it.
Action observation means watching a movement or decision being carried out with attention. It can help someone notice relevant cues and sequences alongside their own practice.
Depending on the program, WoosahX uses suitable sporting scenes as part of mental preparation.
Explore the scientific principlesEmotions can influence what we attend to and remember. The extent depends on context and how meaningful the content is to the person.
WoosahX therefore relates content to sporting situations and personal goals that matter to the athlete.
Neuroplasticity is the nervous system’s capacity to change through experience and practice. It is a general basis for learning, not proof that any particular product works.
Spaced practice means returning to material at different times instead of repeating everything in one sitting. The timing can affect how well something is remembered.
WoosahX revisits relevant themes across multiple sessions.
Read about repetition researchA feedback loop connects observation with adjustment: you notice what happened in an action and use that information in the next attempt.
A coach and athlete might discuss which cues helped before a decision.
Reframing means deliberately looking at a situation from another angle without pretending that the facts are different.
A misplaced pass may be disappointing and also show what to notice next time.
This refers to mental abilities used to notice, process and decide, such as attention and working memory. Performance depends on the task and situation.
Multimedia learning uses coordinated images, speech and other media to make material understandable. More stimuli alone do not automatically improve learning.
In WoosahX, images, spoken cues and sound are intended to support one sporting focus.
What the video format, optional VR and assisted production actually mean.
In a compatible VR headset, the two-dimensional WoosahX video session appears on a virtual screen. It is not a freely explorable, interactive 3D world.
VR is optional; members may use their own compatible headset, but the hardware is not included.
Questions about devices and VRImmersion is the feeling of being absorbed in media while noticing less of the surrounding environment. The experience varies by person, content and device.
A VR headset can create a separate viewing space for the video session; it does not turn the video into a 3D simulation.
Spoken cues, music and other sounds can give a video structure, rhythm and atmosphere. WoosahX coordinates them with the images and the chosen focus.
This does not imply a guaranteed effect from particular sounds or frequencies.
AI-assisted means software uses the supplied information to select suitable elements for a video session and helps assemble it.
This describes a production step, not an independent medical or sport psychology assessment.
See the process for clubs