The Effects Of Imagery Training On Rhythmic Gymnastics Performance

• Main Authors: YU,PEI-LUNG, 余佩倫
• Other Authors: CHANG,YU-KAI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56zyum

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 競技與教練科學研究所 === 106 === Rhythmic gymnastics is a type of competitive sport that can fully demonstrate the athletes’ strength and beauty. The unique artistic charm of rhythmic gymnastics has helped the sport to draw public attention gradually. According to the regulation, the total score is obtained by the combination of difficulty point value and practice point value. When an error occurs in the process of technical actions, the athlete will be unable obtain the difficulty point value. What’s more, he or she will also lose certain points in the practice point value. In that case, whether the action performance is successful will be a key factor to winning the competition of rhythmic gymnastics. Thus, the main objective of the research aims to discuss the effect of imagery training on rhythmic gymnastics performance. Method: The participants of the experiment will be composed of 5 junior high students with average age of 13.80±0.8 years old. These students are professional rhythmic gymnastics who have received related training for at least 3 years. A pre-test will be conducted before the participants take a 6-week long training course. The course will require the participants to attend 15 minute-long training classes for 5 times per week. Participants will take a post-test afterward. The category of “Hoop”will be regarded as the experimental group while the category of “Clubs” will be considered the control group. The post-test is taken to determine the effects of imagery training on difficulty performance and practice performance. All the basic information will be established with descriptive statistics, and be analyzed through dependent sample t test to verify the difference. The variety of imagery capability is examined with linear regression. The result indicates that with the application of imagery training, the difficulty level action performance can be elevated to a great extent. With the application of imagery training, the practice action performance can be elevated to a certain degree, but not as significant as the difficulty level. Furthermore, with the application of imagery training, practice performance can not be elevated prevalently, and it is not able to demonstrate significant difference as well. By means of observing the variation of imagery capability, it helps to understand the difference of athletes’ condition in every situation. In brief, coaches are advised to adopt the ideas presented in this study to include imagery in the daily training schedule so as to elevate the competitiveness of professional athletes of our nation.