This document discusses confidence and emotional control in sports. It defines confidence as an athlete's self-belief in their abilities. Confidence can improve sports performance when an athlete trusts their skills, but overconfidence can backfire. The document also discusses how emotions like anxiety and aggression can negatively impact performance if not properly controlled. Athletes are advised to use relaxation techniques, positive self-talk, and visualization to regulate their emotions and maximize confidence on game day.

1. Confidence + Emotional Control Session 5

2. Session objectives. To understand how confidence can improve or decrease our sports performance To describe why emotional control can improve sports performance

3. 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…………………………………………………………………..

4. 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

5. Task 1 What traits make a person confident? adventurous shy sensitive trusting conservative outgoing reserved undisciplined free thinking controlled calm mature immature assertive submissive aggressive

6. 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.

7. 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)

8. 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?

9. Overconfident?

10. 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.”

11. 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.

12. 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?

13. 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. ”

14. 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.

15. 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?

16. How do we control emotions? Relaxation techniques Hypnosis, Meditation. Imagery - use of visualisation Positive Self talk Counting techniques

17. Session objectives. To understand how confidence can improve or decrease our sports performance To describe why emotional control can improve sports performance