It ‘s wonderful when in a city all thank you
Thanks Claudio Ranieri to allow all of us to know that dreams can come true
Monthly Archive for April, 2016
The shooting sports include the Dynamic Shooting Sport consisting of several stages in which the shooters have to hit different targets in a very fast succession. It’s a sport that requires speed of movement going as quickly as possible in shooting position, and then the shooting action must be precise and fast. This type of activity has to be repeated several times with silhouettes to hit and different paths that the athletes have never shot before.
The psychological implications of this sport are, in my opinion, the following:
- Confidence in the physical and motor skills to move quickly and accurately among the targets
- Confidence in the firearm and the sport technique
- Skill in the immediate adaptation to the type of stage to be carried out
- Competence to immediately memorize the stage and the targets just before the beginning in a typical situation of competitive stress
- Skill to react immediately to one mistake, avoiding to compromise the next shots
- Skill to close the mind just 3-4 minutes before the start of each stage in a noisy environment, outdoors, restricted space, in presence of opponents and officials.
- Be able to relax among the stages, reducing the competitive tension regardless of the results obtained
- Among the stages be able to relax, in particular, the vision, in order to have always a correct perception of the targets
- Be aware of the unexpected events that could happen during the competition and have a plan to manage them
- Be just focused only on the next stage and never on the previous one and only on the next shot and never on the previous ones.
Edoardo Buticchi, coach of the Italian Dynamic Shooting Team and Alberto Cei
«AS Roma is pleased to announce that, since January 2016, the Club promotes and supports the “Calcio Insieme”, a program born from the collaboration between the Fondazione Roma Cares e l’Associazione dilettantistica “Calcio integrato” the training pitch of Italian Olympic Center “Giulio Onesti” were made available at boys and girls, aged between six and twelve years old, suffering from intellectual disabilities of various levels, supported by a pool of doctors, speech therapists and instructors.
The goals are the development of the physical and psychosocial well-being of children, the reduction of stress related to their living conditions, to increase their self-assessment skills and the motivation to motor activity.
A technical team of AS Roma, with sport psychologists, has developed specific educational methodologies to create a safe, comfortable and never boring environment.
Among the results expected, there is the development of the culture of integration and the education to the values of sport through the soccer.
“Roma is a great social platform, and we are conscious of the responsibility that comes – says the AS Roma general manager, Mauro Baldissoni -. I hope this is one of the many experiments that we will put up in action. Sport has always been an aggregator and along a motivational tool to go over the limits. Have on the pitch children with intellectual disabilities is a chance for them to improve.”
The instructors were joined by a medical team, coordinated by Professor Alberto Cei, scientific director of “Calcio Insieme”, looking closely the progress of these young athletes, looking for improvements in the movement coordination, in their self-awareness or more simply in daily life.
“Soccer can be a vital tool to help children with mental disabilities to develop yourself – explains Patrizia Minocchi, president of ASD Calcio Integrato-. This magical tool, the ball, has already yielded the first results, the children are learning to relate with the others.”»
The thoughts of others are an opportunity to reflect on our situation, about how we are working to achieve our goals. One mistake we make easily is to believe that for the reason we are doing well,we must necessarily continue in the same way almost automatically, without sweat and committing less. In those moments we become relaxed, not focused, arrogant, thinking that the result should get of course.
To react to this wrong thinking, I report the Claudio Ranieri’s thought, his team, Leicester, probably will win the English league and that despite having a lead of +8 points a few games left, he says:
“We have done a lot, but in reality nothing yet. Now we need to clean up the thoughts, do not read, do not listen, stay focused. Fighting for every ball and every moment, as so far. To think only about the next game.”
Francophone meetings dedicated to the debate of ideas in the field of humanities and social sciences
Welcome to the third season of “Critical Perspectives”, cycle of Francophone meetings dedicated to the debate of ideas in the field of humanities and social sciences. Organized by the Institut français, Italy, “Critical Perspectives” intends to introduce in Italy a few researchers who stand out in the panorama of the current French research. The Institut français of Italy participates in the debates that animate the Italian society, proposing meetings and public lectures by researchers, teachers and essayists French speakers that offer critical and innovative theoretical perspectives on the contemporary world.
In 2016, Critical Perspectives will be dedicated to the theme of Sport and its related issues. It is in effect a year rich in sporting events, in particular for France, which hosts the European Football Championship. Also in the field of human sciences, sport is becoming more and more a topic discussed critically, and numerous are the French initiatives at this regard: the literary magazines and Desports e So Foot, the Jules Rimet Award of sports literature, the festival “Sport, letteratura e cinema” in Lyon increase the interest on the sport, and football in particular, as a cultural and social phenomenon as well as simply spectacular and competitive.
Follow the “Critical Perspectives” 2016 cycle on the online magazine Le parole e le cose, which will publish articles written by the invited researchers.
To young it should be taught that
tennis regards more
as you accept and react to mistakes
rather than how much you play well
7 myths believed by many coaches not to engage in continuous improving:
- When an athlete is too tight before a race, there is nothing to be done to change this mental condition
- The mental rehearsal of technical action before the competition may limit the spontaneity of the action sports
- Sooner or later those who competes negatively will unlock
- The best athletes are orphans
- The lack to grow a pair is the explanation of poor performances
- Young people have no desire to sacrifice
- The girls are too emotional
The Autism Fitness Handbook
David S. Geslak
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London & Philadelphia
2015, 168 p. – 54 illustrations
This book is one of the very few contributions devoted to provide information, guidance and practical supports to people who want to start a motor program with children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The main goal achieved by David Geslak is to write and focus us on abilities, rather than on mental and physical problems. It’s a true fitness book, which describe a specific program based on 46 exercises to practice. The Author said the program has been used not only with children but with adults too, determining improvements independently from the ability possessed at the begin of the activity.
The program is divided in four parts: engage, educate, empower and exercise. The first part talks about the way to involve the children in the program. In this section very important are the patient and motivation of the teachers, their ability to provide structure and routine and the use of visual supports (e.g., pictures, cards, timers), in the same time it’s important that the parents at home are committed in the same direction, improving the child health, for example also following an adequate food and beverage management and continue the movement activities. The second part talks about education, that means why they are exercising. In this section are described the five components of physical fitness: body image, motor coordination, posture, muscular and cardiovascular fitness. There is also an additional item regarding the children abdominal strength, part of the body image and muscular fitness, weak in these children and it needs to be reinforced. The third part talks about empower, in this section are reviewed the champion stories and exercise routines used by David Geslak with eight people with ASD. The fourth part regards the exercise area. It proposes exercises following the five components, including abdominal strength. Each of the 46 exercises is described in term of goal satisfied, how to do, repetitions and coaching tips. I appreciate this contribute to spread the physically active life style also in children with ASD, based on the assertive concept to start from their competences to improve them in the long period with a specific program.
