Imagery In Football

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Lyly Ho
11/12/15
Sport Psychology
Imagery Essay

The sport I choose to do an imagery script on is badminton. My father taught me and my siblings how to play when we were younger and even though I don’t play it as an competitive sport, I still like to play on a regular basis and during those matches, I find that I am very competitive. Imagery is the ability to form mental images of things or events and it is a form of stimulation. It should involve senses as many senses as possible (kinesthetic, visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory).
There are two keys to successful imaging - these are vividness and controllability and they are acquired through practice. As our notes states, the greater the number of senses that can be used during imagery- …show more content…

Writing down specific ideas or plays they have and analyze their perception of the match and how they should react in a given situation is a great way to build performance. Doing so have help a player respond to a smash from a good badminton player, for example; would we play a straight smash return, or a cross smash return? Controllability is the ability to manipulate the images to get them to do what is wanted, rather than performing continual mistakes. The key to good controllability is practice and the steps that are recommended for this is individualizing the images, advising the players on time management and how to structure and time imaging sessions, make the sessions regular, incorporating the imaging practice into normal training sessions, and to deliver the images in a work shop session for teams. Psychological /mental skills can be used to support development of sports skills specifically; technical skills, tactical skills, physical and mental preparation, for training and competition performance will have badminton players to improve their tactics. Badminton tactics may be defined as the strategy or plan devised prior to and implemented during a match, or the decisions made during and between rallies, or who, what, where, when and why we do something on court. Using imagery

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