Effects of Somatic Movement Education on Body Awareness Ability and Baseball Batting Performance for Youth Baseball Players

• Main Authors: Yu Chuan Chen, 陳玉船
• Other Authors: Da-Feng Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6mku86

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 進修部運動休閒管理碩(假日) === 99 === The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Somatic Movement Education, which emphasized on breathing awareness, body structure cognitive learning and somatic games, for youth baseball players, in order to enhance their baseball batting performance. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to collect data. There were 20 youth baseball players as objects from Bei-Nan Elementary School in Taitung county. They were divided into two groups: 12 players in experimental group and 8 players in control group. The experimental group took 10-week courses of Somatic Movement Education besides their regular baseball training, however the control group only took their regular baseball training. The players in experimental group had to fill in all the learning sheets related to the course and interview notes as the quantitative data. These two groups were tested on batting performance before and after the course, by using batting strike-rate and batting distance average as quantitative index. By comparing the difference between experimental and control group, the testing data collected before and after the course were analyzed by ANCOVA to investigate the effect of Somatic Movement Education course on baseball batting performance for youth baseball player. The results were as follows: 1. Youth baseball players were able to apply the ideas from Somatic Movement Education to assist their baseball skill training, especially through the breathing awareness and relaxing to use the body structure cognitive knowledge. 2. The Somatic Movement Education training could help the youth baseball players to explore their own body awareness and to discover their body structure