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In this period many interventions with the coaches that I am doing concern the use of observation as a system to improve their teaching during the sessions and their relationships with the athletes.
Albert Bandura’s model is an approach that can allow to apply one of the most widespread theories in psychology and that refers to the belief of a person to be able to successfully face a certain competition situation or even to obtain a specific improvement in a technical skill.
The theory of self-efficacy is based on four fundamental ideas to which the coach can refer to to promote the athlete’s improvement.
Past experiences - It has been shown that an indispensable source of self-efficacy lies in relying on past experiences of success in relation to a task.On this basis, the coach should therefore always link what needs to be done at that time (speaking of course of challenging and significant tasks) by linking this his communication to what has happened before, so as to always connect the past with the present.
Vicarious experiences - We refer to the concept of modeling, observing companions who follow a certain task and also their fatigue is an excellent stimulus to increase the belief in success. It is not difficult in any sport to build such situations in rotation among the athletes.
Social support - we know the importance of supporting commitment and supporting people after a mistake. We always put as first goal the development of the person and then the technical acquisition or the sport result. It is important that the coach explains “why” and not just “how to do”, learning and performance will improve because the athlete will feel that he or she is interested in the development of his or her psychological autonomy.
Physiological and emotional condition - Just remember that the warm-up is the type of activity allowing to achieve a physical and psychological condition of readiness, putting the individual in the condition of being ready. This applies not only to the beginning of the training effectively but also to prepare for the most significant exercises of each training session.
Observation is an important ability to learn or improve our sports skills.
Today I want to propose to observe the routines before the beginning of an action of four champions. The routines serve to put us in the best condition to perform the next action. It is a way to empty our minds of what we have done up to that moment and to enter in a mental bubble, as Federica Pellegrini calls it, which allows us to be focused only on what we are going to do.
There’s not much more to say. Observe them, they are different, and then write down what your routine is.
In these days, at home, you can perform mental repetition exercises of your routine, dedicate 10 minutes every day to repeat your routine.
Video:
Cristiano Ronaldo e Jonny Wilkinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBTed9vZLA
Yelena Isinbayeva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_Jduavgpw
Phil Mickelson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAY5tvlLIbQ
Maria Sharapova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hnxzmARxM
Watch videos of other athletes’ performances to learn how they face races, difficult moments, style of play or anything else that may interest. Watch videos driven by a specific target and not by fans.
In this way you develop the ability to stay focused because guided by the goal to observe, it means:
“Examine, consider carefully, even with the help of appropriate tools, in order to know better, to realize something, to detect the details, or to make judgments and considerations of various kinds … Sometimes refers more to the attention of the mind than to that of the eye … to look carefully at something or people, either simply out of curiosity, or with the critical intention, to notice flaws, to catch others foul.”(Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1989, vol. 3° p. 588).
Everyone looks, some observe. Everyone looks, as this word indicates the direction of the eyes toward something, without necessarily this affecting consciously to know what it’s happening on the field. So true is this statement that when you want to qualify better and make more specific the action of watching you add an attribute that does understand the intention of the viewer, like “look insistently, watching with interest, to look with contempt, look with love”and so on. To a person, look at an event is not sufficient to understand what is happening, in her effort to watch an event she will have to perform a further step beginning to look. In fact, to observe means:
“Examining, consider carefully, even with the help of tools, in order to know better, to realize something, to detect the details, or to make judgments and considerations of various kinds … Sometimes refers more to the mind focus than to the eye … carefully lay eyes on something or on people, both for simple curiosity, both with the critical intention to note defects, to find others in foul “ (Dictionary of the Italian Language, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia).
The observation is therefore the act through which the coaches and athletes become aware of the performance behavior of the athletes themselves or their opponents, as well as the skills used during the performance and, more generally, all those aspects which are considered relevant and worthy of being noticed.
