When I was young, 8-10, I was really interested in karate. My parents signed me up for some lessons and for a while I really enjoyed learning karate. Although, after several months of karate lessons I began to lose interest. Looking back and reflecting on that time I realize that my motivation for wanting to learn karate was because it was some thing fun and exciting. I used to like to watch kung-fu movies and my favorite cartoon as a kid was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These were things that I found fun, interesting, and entertaining, these are a few reason why kids and young adults participate in sports and other activities. Kids and young adults will identify with a sport or activity that resembles what is important to them, such as
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I stopped taking karate lessons because I believe my interest changed. Although I still find martial arts exciting it is not something that I want to partake in. When a child becomes involved in sports they will likely experience four levels of athletic development Weinberg and Gould explain that when a child first becomes interested in a sport or activity this is considered the initial phase. This phase is important because it give the youth the opportunity to become exposed to the wide variety of sports, they are able to develop a genuine passion for the sport. Likewise, parents should not pressure the youth in to a sport of their choosing, doing so can cause a child to burnout. Teenage youths are especially susceptible to a stress related burnout (Weinberg & Gould, 2015. p, 536,549). Even though, state anxiety levels across all levels of competition activities score about the same, I think this is just a indicator that youths can be stressed our very easily. In order to reduce the anxiety of a child athlete, a coach may try using role models who stand …show more content…
Weinberg and Gould describe two differing types of aggression; hostile aggressions and instrumental aggression. Hostile aggression is used with the intent to cause intentional harm, either physical or psychological. Instrumental aggression is aimed at attaining a nonaggressive goal. As an example, a defensive football player may hit the quarterback with a hard tackle, he's not intentionally trying to hurt the quarter bak he is performing to the best of his abilities to ensure that his team has the best advantage to win. A variety of factors influence aggression, instincts, social learning, anger, cultural differences, and performance (Weinberg & Gould, 2015, p.555.560). Young athletes who see adult athletes or adults in general use aggression or hostile aggression as a means to achieve their goals end up leaning that same
I stopped taking karate lessons because I believe my interest changed. Although I still find martial arts exciting it is not something that I want to partake in. When a child becomes involved in sports they will likely experience four levels of athletic development Weinberg and Gould explain that when a child first becomes interested in a sport or activity this is considered the initial phase. This phase is important because it give the youth the opportunity to become exposed to the wide variety of sports, they are able to develop a genuine passion for the sport. Likewise, parents should not pressure the youth in to a sport of their choosing, doing so can cause a child to burnout. Teenage youths are especially susceptible to a stress related burnout (Weinberg & Gould, 2015. p, 536,549). Even though, state anxiety levels across all levels of competition activities score about the same, I think this is just a indicator that youths can be stressed our very easily. In order to reduce the anxiety of a child athlete, a coach may try using role models who stand …show more content…
Weinberg and Gould describe two differing types of aggression; hostile aggressions and instrumental aggression. Hostile aggression is used with the intent to cause intentional harm, either physical or psychological. Instrumental aggression is aimed at attaining a nonaggressive goal. As an example, a defensive football player may hit the quarterback with a hard tackle, he's not intentionally trying to hurt the quarter bak he is performing to the best of his abilities to ensure that his team has the best advantage to win. A variety of factors influence aggression, instincts, social learning, anger, cultural differences, and performance (Weinberg & Gould, 2015, p.555.560). Young athletes who see adult athletes or adults in general use aggression or hostile aggression as a means to achieve their goals end up leaning that same