Monthly Archive for January, 2015

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To win you have to adapt to race situations

Published on January 9, 2015 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Giovani, Mental coaching, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: adattamento, gara, mente, Vincere.

I would like to reflect about one idea:

with the aim that the athletes can deal the competitions with a winning attitude, they must know how to adapt the technique and tactics to situations of competition they face. This work of adapting themselves to the race is a mental activity, through the use of their cognitive, motivational, emotional and interpersonal processes. The athletes must therefore have developed over the years of training the ability to assess, decide and act in the best way at any time of the competition.

Question:

what part of the training of your athletes is dedicated to develop this kind of competence?

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Many ideas and very confused

Published on January 7, 2015 in Generale and Stress. 0 Comments

Today I have many ideas and very confused. I wanted to write that often Juventus marks in the first fifteen minutes of the game but then it finds difficult to permanently close with another goal, while in the second half the team showed a lack of confidence and it did not losed thanks to Buffon’s skills of Buffon and the inability of Inter players.

Then I thought, being the beginning of a new year, I would have to write about the relevance of fair play, without doping, and the importance of social responsibility of sport organizations but also of individuals and, therefore, of what might be the role of Individual Social Responsibility. It’s always a hot issue and I have the impression that instead it’s always addressed only when cases of positivity are discovered. Then I wonder, given the importance of reading for the intellectual development (yesterday’s blog), how many of our sports leaders have graduated?

This thought led me to Luis Enrique and his difficulties in managing the Roma before and now Barcelona. It comes perhaps from a sense of inferiority towards the champs he trains, Totti and Messi among others? I do not know, and he also had, in his team, in both of these experiences a psychologist. How does he use this expert? To seek confirmation to his ideas or in other ways?

Then again the parents: they do really know how they are decisive in the development of their children? But I was distracted by a phone call from a student who has chosen as a thesis the topic regarding the mountain running. I am personally passionate about it and then we talked about similarities and differences between running a 10,000m on the track rather than in a forest. Now I have to conclude, because I still have a long phone call on skype with a tennis player and a meeting with an equestrian athlete.

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The origine of the sport ignorance

Published on January 6, 2015 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis, Tiro a volo and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, cultura, genitori, ignoranza, lettura, sport, sviluppo.

We analyze together some data that we have on the reading frequency in Italy, the mental development of children, and try to understand if it could affect their eventual sporting career.

In Italy in 2012, over 26 million people from 6 years and more have read at least one book, for reasons that are not strictly educational or professional. Compared to 2011, the share of book readers remains stable (46%).
Women read more than men: in the year one book has been read by 51.9% of the female population compared to 39.7% of men. The difference in behavior between the sexes begins to manifest itself as early as the 11 years and tends to decrease after 75.
Having parents who read encourage to read: 77.4% of boys aged 6 to 14 years with both parents readers, compared with 39.7% of those whose parents do not read.
In Italy, even those who read, read little: 46% of readers read more than three books in 12 months, while the “strong readers”, with 12 or more books read at the same time, are only 14, 5% of the total.
One family of ten (10.2%) do not have any books at home, 63.6% have a maximum of 100.

The Nobel Prize for Economics James Heckman has shown that children of unemployed in kindergarten possessed a vocabulary of 500 words, those of parents of low-skilled 700 words, while the sons of the graduates came to 1100 words. Unfortunately these differences persist even in later allowing to predict well in advance the career, income, family stability and health condition. Therefore it need educational investments such as to develop the cognitive and social skills in children from 0 to 5 years, and also in later life.
Novak Diokovic wrote in his book: “Jelena made me listen to classical music and read poetry to calm down and learn to concentrate (Pushkin was his favorite poet). My parents, however, spurred me to learn languages, so I learned the ‘English, German and Italian. the tennis lessons and life lessons were one, and every day I could not wait to take the field with Jelena and learn more and more on sports, on myself and on world. “(p.5)

It is not hard to understand from these data and evidences what it should be done to educate young people and that sport would benefit from an education centered on the development of reading. I am convinced that the absence of sport culture found in many countries derives precisely from this kind of ignorance and of which many young people are paying for, ruining their lives well before adulthood.

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Tolerate the frustration to win

Published on January 5, 2015 in Allenatori, Giovani, Mental coaching, Stress and Tennis. 0 Comments Tags: frustrazione, pazienza, tolleranza.

Tennis is a sport in which the winning player is who tolerate better the frustration of mistake. In fac, it’s a game in which approximately every 30 seconds one point is allocated to one of two players and this is repeated for at least 100 times in a match, and often even more. Therefore, every 30 seconds a player is satisfied for the point in his favor while the other is frustrated to have sent out his shots or not to have been able to respond to the opponent’s shot. This situation is repeated for a long period of time, not less than 90 minutes and often much more. You can win while committing many mistakes, some not forced by the opponent. Who does not learn to tolerate the discomfort caused by the error is likely to lose the game.

The frustration comes from not having put in one ball despite many hours of training … Is that wrong in having this mood? Absolutely nothing. Therefore, we must not fight this feeling, we must be aware without fear and to tolerate it. It’s obvious that no one is happy to be wrong … but the players has to know that she can win in court while wrong, tennis is not a sport of precision, but the match goes to the player who commits fewer errors than the opponent … therefore a deep breath and go play next point, confident in training that has been conducted.

The must not play the point as if it were your last, because in this way the competitive pressure increases and you play with the fear of making mistakes (the arm of the tennis player). We must accept to be afraid, tolerate their mistakes even though it is annoying, use the mind to show on the field behaviors that transmit themselves conviction and retain the opponent under pressure though was in the lead.

Tennis is a fast game based on the physical and mental shape and the player’s game quality … but it is also a game requiring patience and not to think have have won or lost the match after half an hour of play, knowing it will be much longer. Only who combines these skills is bound to have a successful career.

He’s patient only who after a mistake does not acceletare his game to recover timmediately the disadvantage or otherwise slows it down with the intention to take fewer risks. It will show the patient only who accepts the frustration derived from error, reporting immediately the mind on how to play effectively the next point, basing this belief on what she learned in training and competition.

The tennis player is a man or woman of action that in the pauses between points is transformed for a few moments in a thinker who has to solve the problem of the next game.

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How the champions think

Published on January 2, 2015 in Calcio, Corsa, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments

I want to start the blog of the new year giving us some thoughts expressed by sports champions to bring out how to be successful it’s important to: have dreams, be tough, show a spirit of sacrifice, tolerate the physical and mental pain, have fun, to use humor and accept the mistakes.

“In my career I was wrong more than 9,000 shots. I lost about 300 matches. 26 times I thought of doing the shooting-match, and I was wrong. In my life I failed often and I continued to make mistakes. And that is why I succeed “(Michael Jordan, basketball).

“The champions are not made in gyms; are made from something they have deep inside, a desire, a dream, a vision “(Muhammad Ali, boxing).

“Since I am an eternal unsatisfied, I get my satisfaction from the success of my projects, often against the adversities, it is true. I often had to deal with them. When it happened, to me that I come from Guadeloupe, an island where everything is beautiful, to adapt myself to the red brick of INSEP, to change the coach and combat racism … I found myself small in something that was not done for me, but I am mangy and I climbed. In fact, all those who have tried to demotivating myself, because I was young or because I was black, on the contrary, I have reinforced my determination “(Laura Flessel, fencing).

“Another incident I recall with pleasure and which teaches that in life nothing is impossible regard the Tour of Italy in 1956. It was the last ride of mycareer and I fell down from Volterra and I broke an elbow bone. The next day I fell again on the fracture and I stopped the ambulance and they wanted to bring me to the hospital. I faced the ascent of Mount Bondone with the bone broken and I closed the Giro in second place. One must always look ahead and never rest. I am now pointing to reach hundred years and it is not a joke “(Gianni Magni, cliclismo).

“Graziano is a good father and he was vital for my career. He was a very talented driver but unfortunately – injuries, falls and injuries – he did not win what he had to win. I arrived to finish the job he had started. Humanly e taught me that you have to make things fun, be serious, work, but at the same time without taking yourself too seriously. I take his way of thinking for me. “(Valentino Rossi, moto).

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