Session 5 confidence and emotional control

Confidence + Emotional ControlSession 5

Session objectives.

• To understand how confidence can improve or decrease our sports performance

• To describe why emotional control

can improve sports performance

Re cap• Concentration is the ability to maintain

………. on relevant ………………………. cues

• Concentration has 3 parts these are …………………..,…………………..,………………………..

• Different barriers to concentration include …………………………………………………..

• We can improve concentration by…………………………………………………………………..

Concentration• Concentration is the ability to

maintain focus on relevant environmental cues

• Concentration has 3 parts these are focus, attention, awareness

• Different barriers to concentration include anxiety, mistakes, fatigue, weather, public announcments, opponent, negative thoughts

• We can improve concentration by goals, mental rehersal, pre-performance routine

Task 1

• What traits make a person confident?

adventurous shy

sensitive trusting conservative outgoingreserved

undisciplined free thinking controlled

calmmature immature

assertivesubmissive aggressive

Confidence in Sport.

• What is confidence?– “the belief or degree of a certainty

individuals possess about their ability to be successful in sport”.

(Vealey 1986)– 'confident' they are referring to self-

confidence.– Self-confidence is faith in one's own

abilities.

Confidence• A player who is confident will have

self-belief in their own abilities.

• This means that in a close or tight game they will back themselves to come through with a good result.

• (e.g. Man United , Rafal Nadal, Tiger Woods)

Confidence. :"We no longer suffer from being beaten

before we even travel to England or France any more. That's the level we're at in Munster. We expect to win when we go over there. It's the same with Ireland. I've played against England six times and won four of those matches. That's not surprising to me because, between the walls of our dressing room, we always expect to beat England.

• Confident or over confident?

Overconfident?

over-confidence

• Artur Boruc has admitted over-confidence proved to be Poland's downfall as they crashed to a shock 2-0 defeat to Ecuador at the World Cup. – "We thought it would be easy, but the

result proved us wrong.” – "But there is little doubt we were too

confident.”

Emotional control

• Emotion, – an intense mental state that arises in

the nervous system rather than through conscious effort, and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response.

Emotions Task 2

• Roy Keane.

– Does the emotions that he shows effect his performance?

• Are they shown to intimidate his opponents or does he have no control over it?

Important to control your emotions..

• Affects players performance.

– “The young striker endured a frustrating game and his patience finally snapped as he got tangled up with Carvalho and Armando Petit and appeared to aim a stamp at the Chelsea player's groin.”

Aggression

• Make performance weaker.

• Distracting to individual and the team.

• Research shows that the lower a team is in the standing, the more likely it will be to engage in aggression.

Task 3

• Anxiety comes in two forms - Physical (butterflies, sweating, nausea, needing the toilet) and Mental (worry, negative thoughts, confusion, lack of concentration).

• What other emotions have you felt before, during and after sport?

How do we control emotions?• Relaxation techniques

– Hypnosis,– Meditation.

• Imagery - use of visualisation

• Positive Self talk• Counting techniques

Session objectives.

• To understand how confidence can improve or decrease our sports performance

• To describe why emotional control

can improve sports performance