Monthly Archive for December, 2021
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Webinar: Journey in the athlete mind. Presentation of the Master in Psicologia dello Sport Roma-2022
Prendendo spunto dal record del campione NBA Stephen Curry: dalla sua tenacia nel volere perseguire il miglioramento delle sue prestazioni e dall’essere considerato anni fa inadeguato a giocare ad alti livelli sino invece a stabilire il record NBA di triple segnate in carriera (2974).
Psicosport organizza domani; martedì 21 dicembre, ore 19- 20.30 un webinar gratuito sul tema “Viaggio nella mente dell’atleta” parleremo di questo argomento. E’ un tema che riguarda tutti gli atleti, allenatori, dirigenti sportivi e gli psicologi. Vedremo infatti come sia possibile e auspicabile sviluppare la “mentalità orientata alla crescita” nei giovani che praticano sport e non solo negli atleti di livello assoluto. I campioni possono indicarci la strada ma il miglioramento è un tema essenziale per chiunque e, proprio per questa ragione, non ci si deve nascondere dietro l’idea che queste cose riguardano solo il mondo sportivo dell’alto livello. Quindi, ognuno quale che sia il suo ruolo deve imparare a declinarlo sulla base delle proprie esperienze di vita quotidiane.
Rifletti sulle tue prestazioni: Stai migliorando o rimanendo al tuo posto? Stai crescendo o fai sempre gli stessi errori?
Durante il webinar verrà presentato il l’edizione del Master di Psicologia dello Sport organizzato a Roma a partire da Febbraio 2022.
Iscrizione al webinar: https://www.psicosport.it/blog/open-day-master-psicologia-dello-sport-roma-2022-dic
A little-known topic concerns team sports, but not high-level sports, but lower-level sports.
Some questions.
- What are the goals of these athletes, boys and girls, who play at this competitive level?
- How do fun, cohesion and technical-tactical improvement coexist together?
- What are the goals of the coaches and how do they value the motivation of their athletes?
- What is their dominant leadership style?
If anyone would like to answer these questions I would be happy to receive them.
The world’s best penalty takers (e.g., Salah & Lewandowski) take time & deep breaths to help composure, control and focus. With such highly visible best practices, why do so many others hyperventilate before their shot, close their eyes, pray for the best & rush towards the ball? (Geir Jordet)
A few days ago Stephen Curry set the NBA record for career triples made: 2974. Three years ago in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he made it clear what his mindset was: “I feel like I can get better at putting the ball in the basket.” “I can get better.”
A few words that made it clear what this champion Curry’s mindset is that gives him an edge. According to Curry, the most efficient shooter in the history of the NBA the word “peak” does not exist, as he is always focused on improvement.
Curry displays a continually growth-oriented mindset, as described by Carol Dweck, the “Growth Mindset.” People who think this way believe their potential is unlimited. As opposed to people with a “fixed mindset” who conversely see no room for improvement. Having a growth mindset means you’re open to learning new skills and cultivating better habits – no matter how good you are today.
Dweck says many people with a growth mindset didn’t start out that way. In fact, they were pretty ordinary. Curry’s NBA draft report confirms Dweck’s point. In a video for CoachUp, Curry himself read parts of the 2009 draft report, “Curry’s athleticism is substandard. He’s not a great finisher around the basket. He needs to improve greatly as a ball handler. He will limit success at the next level.”
People with growth mindset are obsessed with learning because they believe they can become better, which in Curry’s case, consisted of improving their shooting efficiency. They celebrate victories, but see successes as milestones and not the end game.
Curry calls himself his “fiercest opponent” while perceiving opposing teams smaller than the expectations he has of them.Stephen Curry stated “Your state of mind is the main driving force behind your successes and failures. Stay hungry, stay driven.”
So reflect on your performance: Are you improving or staying in your place? Are you growing or making the same mistakes over and over again?
The sport story of Valentina Margaglio who became the first Italian on the World Cup podium, in skeleton is an example of what is called talent transfer.
It therefore consists of a program of re-assignment of an athlete to another sport that possesses similar structural characteristics and transferable through informal programs based only on personal desire for change or formal talent search conducted by sports organizations.
The most important cases
One of the most famous examples in relation to this approach is the story of Clara Hughes who moved from speed skating to road cycling winning a medal in both the Summer (1996) and Winter (2002, 2006) Olympics.
The Australian Institute of Sport has implemented an ambitious program with skeleton as an uncommon discipline with the aim of transferring those with natural sprinting skills to an event where explosive speed is a necessary condition, while also striving to create an environment that would allow for rapid learning of ice riding skills and rapid adaptation to the unique characteristics of the track.
Beginning in 2006, UK Sport in preparation for London 2012 has developed a number of initiatives in relation to the pursuit of talent involving 7,000 athletes. Some of these programs have included a talent transfer approach. “Pitch 2 Podium” involves soccer and rugby players who have not been awarded professional contracts participating in a selection process to become athletes in sports such as rowing, cycling and skeleton. “Fighting chance,” meanwhile, encouraged martial arts athletes to compete in taekwondo, while “Girls4Gold” asked girls with competitive experience at the regional level or above in any sport to participate in selections for cycling, rowing, modern pentathlon, sailing and skeleton. This a produced 50 national athletes and 54 medals at international events.
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Atleta Sport di origine e risultati Nuovo sport e risultati
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Eddie Eagan Boxe Bob a 4 uomini
(USA) 1920 –oro 1932 – oro
J. Tullin Tharms Salto con gli sci Yachting, 8 metri
(NOR) 1924 – oro 1936 – argento
Christa Luding Pattinaggio velocità Ciclismo, 1000m
Rothensburger (DDR) 1984, 1988 – 2 ori, argento 1988 – argento
Willie Davenport Atletica, 110m ostacoli Bob a 4 uomini
(USA) 1964, 1976 – oro, bronzo 1980 – oro
Chris Witty Pattinaggio velocità Ciclismo, 500m
(USA) 1998 – oro, argento 2000 – 5° posto
Clara Hughes Ciclismo strada e prove a tempo Pattinaggio velocità e fondo
(CAN) 1996 – oro, argento 2002, 2006 – oro, argento, bronzo
Hayley Wickeheiser hockey su ghiaccio Softball
(CAN) 1998, 2006, 2 oro, argento 2000 – 8° posto
Igor Boraska Canottaggio, otto Bob a 4 uomini
(CRO) 2000, 2004 – bronzo 2002 – 26° posto
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Esempi di trasferimento del talento di atleti che hanno partecipato alle Olimpiadi invernali e estive (modificato da Gulbin, 2008).
Cassandra M. Seguin & Diane M. Culver (2021). The lived experience of sport-related concussion: A collaborative inquiry in elite sport, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/10413200.2021.1998804
Sport-related concussion(s) (SRCs) pose a complex problem to researchers and practitioners alike. The psychological and emotional experience of these injuries requires individualized and multidisciplinary intervention to promote wellbeing and effective recovery. These interventions require a thorough understanding of the SRC experience. Thus, collaborative inquiry, a novel approach in the SRC domain, was employed to give athletes a voice in how their experience is portrayed and understood within the research and applied communities. Data were generated over two years through on-going discussion and reflection between the researchers and twelve elite athletes who experienced SRCs. Athletes advocated for a broader view of their injury that considers the interplay of sociocultural factors and the individual’s psychosocial experience. Mutual engagement through interviews, member reflections, focus groups, follow-up emails, and further reflective conversations generated two composite narratives. These narratives are interpreted using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory to underline the interplay of factors: (1) microsystem (athletic identity), (2) mesosystem ((dis)trust in relationships), (3) exosystem (concussion protocols), (4) macrosystem (sport culture), and (5) chronosystem (timing related to major events and recovery). Through this unique combination of methodology and theory within SRC research, we aim to highlight opportunities for applied intervention, multidisciplinary collaboration, and future scientific exploration
Lay summary: Elite athletes who experienced concussions collaboratively created stories which highlight the complexity of concussions. These stories and accompanying analysis are intended to help practitioners and researchers further understand some of the psychological, social, and cultural factors that contribute to injury experience and recovery.
Practical Implications: This article aims to facilitate an understanding of some of the complex and interacting factors that impact an elite athlete’s experience with concussion. Through a narrative exploration of athletes’ experiences and a multi-systems theory, this article highlights potential targets for applied sport psychology and rehabilitative interventions. Specifically, psychological, social, and cultural barriers and factors are identified as potential intervention areas, all of which have been largely ignored in existing return-to-sport protocols.
During this season there have been so many expulsions of coaches in Italian football Seria A. The phenomenon reflects a level of occupational stress that coaches often have difficulty controlling and consequently the field during the matches inveigh against referees. What might be the causes:
Pressure - There is a strong demand from the Club managers and fans to win and the result and also the inability of the Clubs to allow, with rare exceptions, at the coach to work on targets that are not only those of the next game.
Insecurity - The effect is that the coach will likely exonerated if he loses a few games or if he is not meet the expectations of the president.
Exposure - The coaches are daily on the newspapers and sports broadcasts. Around them spread a continuous gossip exposes their choices to the ongoing discussion of the public and journalists, which are interrupted only during the game to get up immediately after, during the post-game interviews.
Cohesion - Coach complaints are also a way of shifting the referee’s attention to themselves in order to achieve a team cohesion effect and an increase in the aggressiveness of the players in response to the frustration derived from their coach’s warning or ejection.
Under these conditions it is not easy to carry out their work and certainly for the coaches can be useful to engage in mental coaching programs to improve their ability to manage the stress they need to cope during their job. On the other hand, this is an improvement approach used by the managers of the companies to improve their own leadership.
Finally, it must be said that referees should also be better prepared, they often prove to be touchy and want to remind with extreme gestures that they are the ones in charge on the field. And so we are very far from Paolo Casarin’s, when he used to explain to referees that they “are guests” and therefore they should know how to convey this mentality even in the hottest situations of the matches. On the other hand, it is completely unknown what the mental preparation of our referees is today.
Athletes can make three types of errors due to the type of attention they use at any given point in the race: the first relates to environmental distraction (audience, weather, opponents), the second relates to mental overload (excessive worry, high expectations), and the third relates to emotional overload (anxiety, fear, anger).
Based on these data, world record holders are particularly proficient in minimizing errors due to environmental distraction and thought overload compared to other world-class athletes in the three sport types (closed skill, open skill, and team) and adolescent athletes.
However, even for them, the main source of distraction relates to the emotional component of their thoughts, which, at the most important moments, can take over and disrupt the quality of their performance (Source: Cei Consulting, 2017).
Sport psychology is a discipline that has been able to carve out its own space within psychology and sports sciences and their teaching. The main topics that this subject deals with concern eight major areas: cognitive processes involved in motor control and sports performance; psychological skills involved in different types of disciplines; motivational processes; the role of the coach and training organization; sports programs for children; well-being and health; interpersonal skills and group dynamics; self-regulation processes, levels of activation and systems to deal with competitive stress. In “Fondamenti di psicologia dello sport” (Il Mulino, 296 pages, 27 euros) Alberto Cei illustrates the knowledge that sport psychology has acquired in these main areas and provides a panorama capable of satisfying teachers, students and also those who are interested or want to approach this discipline (Source: Tuttosport).
