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ATHLETE'S RETENTION OF A COACH'S INSTRUCTION BEFORE A JUDO COMPETITION |
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Isabel Mesquita1  ,
Antonio Rosado2, Nuno Januário2 and Elsa Barroja2 |
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1Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Porto, Portugal, 2Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2008) 7, 402 - 407 Search Google Scholar for Citing Articles |
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| ABSTRACT | |||
| The aim of the present study was to analyze the instruction of
the Judo coach immediately before the competition, in the process of preparation
for the fights, looking to (1) study the coherency between the information
which the coach transmits and that which the athlete retains; (2) identify
the correlation between the coherency, the extension and the number of ideas
conveyed by the coach; (3) determine if the retention varies in relation
to variables such as the form and nature of the information, as well as
the gender and practice category of the athletes. The participants were
11 coaches and 58 athletes of 3 categories: under- 15, under-17 and under-20,
of both genders. One hundred and sixteen (116) instructional episodes were
observed, which corresponds to four hundred and six (406) information units
convoyed by the coaches. The coaches' instructions given before the competition
were recorded in an audio and video register. After the coaches' instruction,
the athletes were approached by the investigator and an interview was accomplished.
To determine if the retention varies in relation to form and nature of the
information and gender and practice category of the athletes, the non-parametric
statistics, U de Mann-Whitney and Kruskal- Wallis, was used. Correlation
of Spearman was applied to verify the degree of association between the
coherency, the extension and the number of ideas conveyed by the coach. The results showed that a substantial part of the information was not retained by the athletes and the information coherency was inversely related to the number of transmitted ideas. The coaches were, mainly, prescriptive and the form of the information was not important for the retention of the information. Gender was a differentiated variable as the girls showed more coherency in the retained ideas in relation to the ideas transmitted by the coach. Key words: Athletes' retention, coach's instruction, judo, competition. |
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