They are playing their game and everything count. Both teams put their best foot forward which results in the scores being all tied up. As it turns out it is their team's turn to serve, this would be a big deal however this particular girl Sally really struggles with serving. Her heart picks up and she can feel the nerves really set in. As she took her place she stopped and thought about the outcome , but then switched to the process of simply hitting the ball.…
Shields and Bredemeier insist that athletes need to have a desire to win, but also respect their opponent and the game. They believe that athletes need to a desire to win and a great appreciation for the game. Shields and Bredemeier argue that to be true competitor one needs to pursue victory but also respect the game and its’ rules. Feezell claims that athletes need to find a happy medium between seriousness and non-seriousness. Feezell (1986) states, “Sportsmanship is a mean between excessive seriousness, which misunderstands the importance of the play-spirit, and an excessive sense of playfulness, which might be called frivolity and which misunderstands the importance of victory and achievement when play is competitive.”…
Sports both provide insights to people’s character as you get to see how they handle the threat of utter defeat or the joy of winning. In these quintessential moments of competition, athletes are raw and vulnerable, giving the viewer an insight into their true character. Novak also argues that sports show people their limits. I also agree with this, as there is a time in everyone’s life where they think they have the faintest of chances of going pro.…
The crack of a bat. Uproar from the crowd. Fans cheering as their favorite player makes the shot that irrefutably leads the team to victory. These are the sounds you will likely hear in any stadium or field as you watch the players coalesce and exhibit the athleticism that they have spent their entire lives honing. In today’s society, sports have become an indispensable element in aspects that make our nation unparalleled - uniting and defining us by transcending nationalities, backgrounds, and ethnicities, and instead bringing forth the immense talent of the legends and heroes that have shaped our understanding of the significance of sports - from Jim Thorpe, Michael Jordan, and Muhammad Ali, to Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, and LeBron James.…
He was too bouncy and flimsy. He could be squished, unlike his three other brothers. Little Tennis wanted this to change. He started working out, he had people throw him more, he had people bounce him more and he had people kick him more. Hoping this would make him stronger, Tennis had made a request to a duel with the meanest, the largest, and the strongest ball in the county, his mean cousin… Bowling Ball.…
I felt like I would actually be able to excel in tennis with more outside…
It is a mind game filled with as much physical as mental effort, as much brute force as clever deception. It is no wonder that the sport has endured throughout the ages, for it is complex as chess and as exciting as a…
In the field of teaching and coaching, many different styles are used by the instructor. This article examines what coaching styles coaches are using for youth tennis players during there training sessions. Twelve coaches had three 30 minute practice sessions observed and videotaped. Of the children who were practicing there, ages were between 5 and 12 years old. In this paper, it states that coaches need to be prepared to teach a variety of students who all have different needs.…
The Olympic Games lead the world in showcasing a variety of foremost winter and summer sporting events. One principal sport includes tennis, a racket based, non-contact game played with one or two players on each side of the court. Tennis is played recreationally and competitively across the world. Tennis originated in England during the 19th century, but its role as an Olympic sport exhibits how it reaches numerous audiences worldwide. Tennis's universal presence suggests that it can be enjoyed by people and players of any background.…
As I arrived at the tennis courts, I can sense a presence or seriousness, the determination of a small high school tennis team in the southeast region of Missouri. With the footsteps made by the head coach you can tell, by the look of his face, that he is very welcoming and pleased to have an observer come watch his hard work that took him years to build. “Hi, how are you today? You must be Anthony?” the coach voiced.…
All of my hard work was thrown away and I fell into the abyss of failure. From that moment, I decided to quit. Middle School graduation was fast approaching, so clubs and sports teams from the high school went to inform the students to encourage participation. Excitedly, I visited every table and learned about each club until I stumbled upon the table for the Girls’ Tennis Team. That week, the team held open practices so we could learn the basics and see if we liked the sport.…
Issues That Tennis Players Deal With According to Nick Bollettieri (as cited in Mental Training For Peak Perfomance, 2005) ‘’it isn’t the skill these athletes possess that makes them standouts. It’s their passion – their mental focus on the game. Being a greatest athlete in the world doesn’t matter if you don’t have the love, the positive attitude, and the passion to play and care for the game.’’ (pg. 188)…
Squash is a high intensity racquet sport that can be played between two individuals (singles) or two teams of two (doubles), like tennis. Squash is played in a four walled court, using a small rubber ball. The rubber ball can come in different variations, depending on how easily it is to get the ball warm and bouncy. The type of ball used is determined by the player’s skill level. Squash mainly uses fitness components that include, agility, anaerobic capacity and muscular power.…
I did not know that to play tennis there is a certain technique in hitting the ball and approaching a shot. The next day I told the coach that “tennis is not for me it is to hard”. The coach said that “you are an athlete but you just can not see it right…
Tennis is the sport where players have to use all their skills to compete.…