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To develop situational awareness means to teach to the athletes “that what happen before determines what happen later”

Athletes should learn to recognize and apply the following concept:

What happen before determines what happen later

Means that how you train determines how to compete, how do you perform the warm-up put yourself in the best condition to perform, that what you do during the breaks of the competitions determines how you will perform in the following period and so on. Each performer can add specific examples depending on the sport practised.

In psychology this approach to the sport has a name, it’s called situational awareness. Most of the research on this topic has been focused on military and commercial aircraft pilots. They are people really trained that to access this role have passed a tough selection. The main feature that distinguishes them is that during the flight are thinking ahead. They are therefore continuously engaged in imagining what might happen, preparing themselves to answer these hypothetical events. Show a kind of thinking “What if …” Also before the start of the mission they plan and discuss these issues.

Comparing experienced pilots (6036 flight hours) and inexperienced (720 flight hours) there was evidenced that:

  1. The amount of the pre-flight time increased in the light of experience. The most experienced pilots spent more time to gather information, plan and prepare specific plans in relation to flight conditions.
  2. The most experienced pilots were more focused on understanding and determination of actions to be taken to achieve the flight goals.