Deliberate Play

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses athlete training. The paper details the practice of using deliberate play and deliberate practice concepts in training sessions and explains how these concepts allow the coach to incorporate the athlete's feelings and thoughts into situations involving the game. The paper also cites studies that show how this method can influence athletes' perception of the practices and training they receive.

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" Both concepts consider the athlete's desires as well as the supportive role of the parents and coaches in assisting the athletes in obtaining those desires. The coaches are called upon to provide the athletes with the resources including training such as skill training, conditioning, team concepts, and positioning theories. The parents offer a supportive role as well, oftentimes becoming the sounding box for the athletes that can be both negative and positive in feedback.
"Deliberate play begins when the athletes are young and requires training at a rate of 2-5 hours per week. The training time increases through the years until approximately a decade later the athletes are practicing at a rate of 25 - 30 hours per week. Each stage incorporated into deliberate play is defined in a certain manner. These distinct stages of development include different types of activities through the early years, middle years, later years and maintenance years. The activities are mainly focused on deliberate activities used to ensure the athlete is progressing. This concept also states that the hours of practice should have direct results and a corresponding improvement in the performance level of the athlete."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bolls, P.D.; Muehling, D.D.; (2007) The effects of dual-task processing on consumer's responses to high and low-imagery radio advertisements, Journal of Advertising, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 35 - 47
• Cote, J.; (1999) Long-term athlete development, associated coaching pathways, and implications for coach education, Queens University, www.icce.ws/conference/documents/ICCE2005/LTAD.PPT, accessed April 15, 2008
• Da Matta, G.B.; French, K.S. (2002) The influence of Deliberate Practice and social support systems on the development of expert and intermediate female volleyball players in Brazil, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,
• Nordin, S.M.; Cumming, J.; Vincent, J.; McGrory, S.; (2005) Mental practice or spontaneous play? Examining which types of imagery constitutes deliberate practice in sport, Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 345 - 362
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