Psychological flow and its relationship to the mental training skills of young karate players

Abstract

When the athlete performs sports activities that move outside the framework of restrictions and challenges while controlling his skills, he does not generate pleasure, pleasure and a sense of pleasure only, but rather generates a feeling of satisfaction, happiness and achievement of goals. This means that the athlete reaches the highest degree of employing his psychological energy, which is accompanied by a state of psychological flow The subjective, which leads the individual to go through an experience of a refined kind that includes complete preoccupation with activity or work accompanied by awareness, concentration of attention, and fluid events in performance. Mental training plays an important role in achieving sports achievements, and neglecting this role and not paying attention to it greatly harms performance, and it must be taken care of, like the rest of the physical fitness elements, as each of them contributes to reaching the ideal performance state, the feeling of enjoyment resulting from the positive emotional experiences that flow through The karate player has through the practiced activity a condition that he seeks and works to repeat, through the coach’s interest in the state of psychological flow that contributes to its emergence and strengthening to reach excellence.

The psychological impact is direct in all individual and group sporting events without exception and depending on the player’s abilities and individual capabilities, and certainly the greatest burden falls on the players of individual games, so we see it more tense, anxious and emotional, and that individual games in general and karate in particular show this difference with high accuracy, Where it requires special mental abilities that depend on the player’s ability to his central nervous system and its compatibility with his skeletal muscles, which increases the speed of response and the decisiveness of the competition

The research aims to:

1- To identify the state of psychological flow and how to measure it among young karate players.

2- Recognizing the relationship of psychological flow with mental training skills for young karate players.