My persuasive argument thesis is:
Sport psychology is much more important than physical training.
1. What do people already know about my topic?
Everyone knows that physically fit athlete is likely to good at sports such as football, basketball and so on. Everyone agrees with the fact, physical ability is important to play sports and makes athlete hold a dominant position.
2. What research has already been done about my topic?
1) http://www.sportnest.kr/1289 What is sport psychology? - I got an example that a professional athlete emphasizes the importance of sport psychology, and what sport psychologists study.
2) http://www.sportsq.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2556 There is sport psychology behind the best mental state like Kim Yuna - I learned the five fields in sport psychology and which factors influence on it.
2) http://www.sportsq.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2556 There is sport psychology behind the best mental state like Kim Yuna - I learned the five fields in sport psychology and which factors influence on it.
3. What are the implications of my argument (What if I'm right? What if I'm right and people ignore me?)
If my argument is right, people especially the government or sport organisation must produce sport psychology treatment more and support financial aids. Otherwise, athletes will have complaints and it will be limited to improve their performance skills.
If my argument is right, people especially the government or sport organisation must produce sport psychology treatment more and support financial aids. Otherwise, athletes will have complaints and it will be limited to improve their performance skills.
My Narration
To achieve a goal and get honor in sport, it is necessary to have physical fitness. However, it is not all the thing needed because there are already many professional athletes who are physically fit. Then, if you don't have psychological fitness, meaning stable mind, it is hard to accomplish what you want among competitive athletes. This is because psychology contributes to determine the result of match, for example, confidence, stability, affirmation and so on.
All around the world, athletes and coaches are interested in sport psychology, especially there is a special psychological expert team in sports powerhouse such as Europe or North America. The special team deal with psychological problem professionally. They check out athletes' mental states and teach them how to control the mentality, consulting them(Chung chung hee, 2006). In sports psychology, there has been many researches which suggest the relationship between mental state and athletic performance. In competitive sports, athletes' mental state has much to do with athletic performance and these mental state is not limited by psychology, but a kind of technique like exercise technique and it is called psychological skill.
Psychological skill is 'a strategy or technique which helps to maximize athletic performance and overcome the stress which comes from competitive circumstances by consideration and mental control.' Thus, psychological skill training means the training process which helps athletes to show the best performance and acquire the self-regulation skill(Chung chung hee, Kim byeong joon, 1999).
Ultimately, psychological skill training is effective to increase performance ability and pleasure, and is educational program to learn psychological skill. These training is necessary to athlete who not only has mental 'problem', but is mentally stable. and plays a role as an aider which helps players to show their best performance in badly competitive matches(정청희 Chung chung hee, 2003).
To start with, let me know you some kinds of sports psychology to help you to understand the subject matter. According to Chung chung hee, a professor in department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, there are goal setting, concentration training, imagery training and self-confidence training in sport psychology.
First of all, goal setting. Goal setting means making deciding a goal with specific period. For instance, golfer has a goal to hit seven under or make a birdie for every hole. These goal motivates athletes and leads them to try hard to achieve it(Chung chung hee, 2006). If athletes try hard to achieve their goals, they can benefit like these. They can concentrate on their own work, and make persistent efforts. Also, goal setting helps them to cultivate patience while experiencing failure and slump, and to learn new strategy to attain the goal. Moreover, it makes players to have self-confidence and increases their concentration, and also contributes to improve performance ability.
Second, concentration training. It is a skill to maintain one's own concentration on the object for certain period. Strong concentration requires lots of psychological energy, so it is necessary to have strong mind when improving concentration skill.
Concentration training prevents athletes from distracted environment, gives them confidence and maximizes the consistency of their performance.
Third, imagery training. An imagery means a technique which creates new experience without direct exercise or with past experience. That is to say, it means drawing a state of exercise performance. The imagery includes real things that we feel and see directly and experience that we sense. The characteristic of imagery is internalization(re-categorizing events and making it mine), and experiencing performance sense and manipulating reality into imaginary thing(Martens, 1987). The effects of imagery training is that we can go through the motional sense without moving and improve performance ability with spending spare time. Also, it helps foster positivity and confidence, and is practical to be used as an method to maintain one's achievement power and make good a deficiency(Kirschenbaum, et al. 1982).
Lastly, self-confidence training. In this case, self-confidence is defined as a belief that 'I' can do and achieve the goal. For instance, a golfer who believes that he or she can do 4m putting has a confidence. A level of confidence and performance is similar to a relation between arousal level and performance. Also, low confidence restricts a motivation to goal and can not awaken athletes(Park dong jin,1994). Therefore it is required to train athletes to instill confidence with these advices. First, performing with confidence even in practice. Second, thinking positively. Third, controlling physical condition. Fourth, learning how to improve confidence. Fifth, Doing positive actions. Last, using appropriate mind(Chung chung hee, 2006).
