Under Development, patience Please - Sept 5th
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In Sport Psychology, we find the science of psychology used to help athletics with their performance However, in medicine, the psychologist is busy, helping individual to understand what a subconscious mind has recorded and for them to remember. A victim of violence or having been in an accident often need a psychiatrist to interpret what they actually remember as to what had happen.
In the first Blog, I suggested a link to a psychiatrist researcher, Jennifer Cumming, who has studied and researched visualization as it applies to helping individuals adapt to mental problems like anxiety; but also has written on Sport Imaginy.
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Because an athletic's goals and business executive's goals are each moving toward their successful achievement, we see many new websites on how to use Visualization for success. Almost, as if there is a new science of Business called "Visualization". Of all the web search results that you will find on these searches; those on Sports development, like that suggested in part 1, by Jennifer Cumming on Sport Imagery Training should be your choice. Jennifer in her article (linked) suggest how " the best athletes use imagery,(and how) imagery is most beneficial when it is
- Vivid and detailed
- Incorporates all senses (see, feel, hear, smell, and taste)
- Occurs in "real-time,
- Has positive focus"
Because of my experience and work with the instinctive or Subconscious ability in our Performance, the second blog, showed how I had tricked the subconscious mind into revealing one of the many secret or methods it has in helping us survive or interpret our memories. Yes, we can force our subconscious to use our memory data in area of precise information. I then mention the reason for this deception was to show how the subconscious mind can measure a 1/4 inch at 30 feet, and suggested another blog where in a World Bowls Competition the athletics were using a developed type of "Projection Visualization" to see the actual jack distance which in Lawn Bowls can be up to 30 meters or almost 100 feet.
In this, the third part of this three part blog, I will mention three advance aspects of visualization, which should always require a Certified and qualified coachs of Level 3 or higher. (1- Club coach, 2- Competition (corrective) Coach, 3- National Team Coach 4- International Coach and 5 - Specificity.Coaches (like Sport Psychologist)). Not all sports have these 5 levels and only a few countries like Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom have most of them. In Canada in past years our National Lawn Bowls Federation has invited Coaches from those countries listed.
For "Interruptive Visualization", where working in a Mental Training of our Subconscious; we interrupt or introduce an instruction to the subconscious mind just prior to its instinctive performance or 'Muscle Memory'.and the "Corrective or "Recovery Visualization",( where for an injury recovery involves educating the subconscious; ( "Recovery Training" practice and Psychologic Recovery"),
And the third Visualization type is, "Total Visualization" of our sport. Here we find a Totally "Blind" player who actually sees the complete Lawn Bowls Game and all action as a "Self created Vision".
In the photo above, what you see is a Level 3 or 4 "Lack of Vision" view; which is why we dress in white in Blind Lawn Bowls (BLB) where an individual with Level 1 "Lack of Vision" would hav a Total Lack of Vision and Level 2 and 3 players having a more partial "Lack of Vision". The bottom photo of the delivery style of a Level 1 or Level 2 player who will work with their Visual Coach in delivery. The Assistance or Coach will also explain all aspects of the athletic's bowl roll and even the opponent's success; all in an effort to create a "Total Vision" in the BLB athletic. Yes, seeing an image created by the verbal description of their coach or Assistance.
Each of these visualization take a lot of mental training where the subconscious is taught to seek out and use information which it would not normally develop. In the "Total Visualization", I often use it myself to study my performance errors. When I am in training for doing a Petanque Take-out" Shot; I will sometimes in studing my performance, create the mental image of the distance to the target as a vision and then closing my eyes do Projective Visualization, do my shot and only open my eyes after the actual take-out shot. This action or exercise allow me to identify actions of my performance which are being modified by my subconscious and which I may want to correct. Yes, it take a lot of practice to accept this as a training tool.
For example, when doing a Lawn Bowls delivery, our balance is important and because balance change, which is an instinctive actions (or subconsciously modified); such a change in balance can effect our final performance. Not only must we not allow the subconscious to change things but we must always check if it has.
The running forward of Lawn Bowls athletics following their delivery, which we see with some United Kingdom athletics is such a type of Corrective action. During delivery development and training this had to be inserted to counter the changing balance action of the Subconscious or "Muscle Memory". Because they changed their performance style to correct this problem it became a part of their performance. (Run forward when feeling a change in Balance).
If a "Interruptive Visualization" was used when the event was to happen our subconscious would be restricted until the bowl is rolling on the green. Likewise, to increase your body movement speed forward for a long jack; if you find your body movement being adjusting with an instinctive corrective balance; you would need to introduce a "Tag". A small movement as part of you delivery, ( a "Tag"), which interrupts the subconscious enough to correct the mistake without the need to go back to the conscious mind's learning and Practice stage. Using a "Tag" means that eventually when the Subconscious "Muscle Memory" has been modified, to activate with a trigger action and after the bowl is rolling; the use of the "Tag" is lost from your performance routine or "Muscle Memory".
To often an athletics will return to Conscious Practice Training to fix such a problem action which could have been done by mental training and then return to their natural delivery. This causes a lost of Visualization Recovery because now subconscious freedom has becomes distracted by the Conscious instructions and the subconscious drops it instinctive performance of your delivery.
What has happen here, is you were introducing a small thought (if vocal individual) or small muscle movement with a vision (if visual); well prior to the "Performance Visualization". The subconscious would be interrupted enough to allow you to make that correction as a thought. For example, take the basketball player that has a habit of a missed shot because of a side step movement of his body step; might think (Centre Basket" just prior to his visualization of his shot (if a vocal individual)., The visual individual may actually see the image of the welding of the metal rim at the centre of the basket for the subconscious to correct that mistake in his shot. Likewise, eventually, the "Tag" would no longer be needed after the Subconscious Mental Training period.
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In "Ccorrective Visualization", there are various aspects of psychology involved. If we were like a gymnast doing a routine and made a mistake and caused an injury. We would, of course be afraid to make the same mistake and caused another injury. Psychologically we would be hesitant to do that movement again. This corrective recovery would require a psychiatrist who would not only understand the mental burdon but also know the medical work the athletic needed to perform to return to the previous "High Performance" level of their performance.
At this point I wish to identify the level of Coaching which exist in Sports to show the reader and develop a respect for the quality of Coaches and blog opinions. Here in Canada we have an federal organization called Coach Canada and it website of Coach.ca. With various programs and their continual reconstruct of the standards of Coaching in Canada they reconiize, I believe 5 levels of coaches. These coaches are certified as to Coach Canada teaching and are:
Level 1 - Club Coach teaching the basic of the sport to Club members, As in Lawn bowls, especially in Quebec and Eastern Canada there are few coaches above this level of development; Lawn Bowls beginners find a large range of club members which act as coaches. A Club Ambassador is usually club members or an executive who welcome new members or the public to the sport and the club. Introduction to Bowls Trainers are usually club members who will take individuals to the green and roll bowls to introduce the sport with the hope of recruiting a new member. Sometimes there are Game Coaches which during club games attempt to introduce the rules and finer points like measuring the shot or even suggestion technique errors to be corrected. And finally there are the Certified Club Coaches or the Coaching Committee Instructors. A good club will offer a new member a 10 session training with a qualified coach and the new member will slowly over a period of several week gain the necessary instructions toward developing a good delivery.
Level 2 - Coaches are usually more directed toward Competition Coaching and developing the individuals performance into a good delivery, game attitude and understanding of game play and strategy.
Level 3 - Coaches are more toward the International Competition preparation of athletics and in Quebec, in the past, if provincial (or Federal) moneys were available to sport Clubs that club had to have a qualified coach developing and successful participating at National and interprovincial competition. These "Club Elite" would probably participate at the National Competitions and even International with the hope of making the Canadian National Team.
Level 4 and Level 5 coaches are seen more in sports with large participation and even oplymapic participation.
Recently when our Quebec Petanque Team was preparing for their World Competition I gathered from Coach.ca the e-teaching for an International Coach as there was in that sport only athletics who had participate but no Certificated coaches. The e-sesson was given by a Soccer Level 4 or 5 coach and I discovered that Soccer even had enough of this level of coaches to classificate them into "A", "B" and "C" coaches due to their experence and National Participation of their teams.
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