| Abstract [eng] |
Aiming at high sports results, success of a sportsman and a coach depends on comprehensive complex and purposeful sportive preparation and good relationship between sportsman and coach. Not only a sportsman himself/herself but also his/her coach can help optimise pre-competition psychic condition. However, often coaches’ actions carried out before competitions make a negative impact on sportsman’s emotions before the start. Therefore, coaches’ actions and role in optimisation of sportsmen’s pre-competition condition becomes an increasingly relevant problem. The problem question of the research: what are the judo coaches’ actions in management of sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition? The research object is the actions of judo coaches in management of sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition. The aim of the research is to estimate judo coaches’ actions in management of sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition. Research objectives: 1. To estimate subject-related psychological competence of judo coaches; 2. To explore judo coaches’ actions striving to optimise sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition; 3. To reveal methods of optimisation of sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition applied by judo coaches. Research methods: analysis and generalisation of scientific literature; qualitative research – a method of a semi-structured interview; narrative method. Having carried out the research, the conclusions revealed that judo coaches had partially gained subject-related psychological competence. Coaches are interested in sport psychology; however, the obtained knowledge has been accumulated due to experience (through practice), they lack particular knowledge justified by science. Aiming to optimise sportsmen’s pre-competition psychic condition, coaches hold conversations with sportsmen, strive to set clear aims of competitions and training as well as to make a timetable of competitions to stabilise athlete’s emotional condition. Methods used by coaches for optimisation of the psychic condition in the pre-competition period manifest through encouragement of athletes, elimination of negative thoughts, suggestiveness. At the end of the paper, methodical recommendations to judo coaches and the Judo Federation are provided. |
