1. What is my thesis?
Sport psychology is much more important than physical training.
2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis?
I quote essaies of experts and researchers and articles of journalist who is specialized in sports.
3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?
I have some evidences that support the importance of sport psychology, but I can not sure that psychology is more important than physical condition. It is a weakness of my essay. However, I argue that the importance of it is getting stronger and it will surpass the necessity of physical condition.
My Confirmation
There are many examples that famous athletes assert that psychological skill is important in sports and its effects are amazing. You can see the significance of sport psychology with the examples, Yuna Kim, Seung Hoon Lee and so on.
Yuna Kim who retired from the figure skating after Sochi Olympic 2014 is called a woman who has the strongest mental among sport experts, because she concentrated on her play and had composure in suspensful game. She could have the strongest mental and self-confidence with psychological therapy and counseling. Accordingly, sport psychology is being reviewed. It is a good example that NEST Foundation(NExt generation Sports Talent) founded 'training course of sports mental coach'. Doctor Kim byeong hyun, who has studied sport psychology for thirty years and belongs to KISS(Korea Institute of Sport Science), advised that it is effective for sport teams to have professional psychological coaches(Park sung hyun).
There is another example. Seung hoon Lee who is a speed skater said 'I was recommended to have psychological therapy, but it is not that popular in Korea. If athletes can have an aid from sport psychology, it may have good influence on their performance ability', during an interview with Cheol won Lee who belongs to NEST Foundation. It means even current athletes realizes that the impact of sport psychology is excellent.
Let me give you more examples, swimmer, Tae hawn Park. To take part in World Championships for Swimming in Rome 2009, he accompanied a psychologist who has helped them in Beijing Olympic 2008 to be mentally stable.
There is an example in field of soccer, too. Senol Gunes who is a football manager scouted a sport psychologist when he belonged to FC Seoul. This is because he was nervous how well korean athletes understand him and athletes were too young, so that he was mentally anxious. Later, Gunes showed the success of sport psychology, leading semifinal winning in K league, 2009.
According to these examples, I can strongly argue that sport psychology is necessary. I already mentioned the five sources of sport psychology; goal setting,concentration training,imagery training and self-confidence training. To confirm the effectiveness of those, I will state those one more.
First, goal setting is to set a goal with motivation. It motivates athletes to perform well and have confidence. Second, concentration training. To pay attention to game, strong mind is necessary rather than physical ability. This training prevents them from obstacles and give them consistency of performance ability. Third, imagery training draws ideal performance and makes athletes try hard to achieve it so that it fosters positivity and confidence. Last, self-confidence training is similar to goal setting because it stimulates athletes to have confidence to accomplish a goal.
Athletes want to perform well their skills in a game because any athletes who is at peak performance can have high possibility to win. Unfortunately, most players can not display their ability due to anxiety, decreased concentration, lose of confidence and unstable mind(Kim byeong hyun). That is to say, even though athletes ' physical ability and skills are at peak, they get the result according to their psychological skills. And it also means that psychological skill is more important than physical skill.
