St. Basil's Ultimate Frisbee Team

"What is a practice and why should I participate in it?", an athlete may ask. Practice is a performance of an activity or an exercise of a skill that is repeated many times to improve or maintain one's proficiency. Athletes should participate in practices because it allows them to improve and gives them the opportunity to achieve their full potential through sport. It allows athletes to develop lifetime values of sportsmanship to become a better person and prepares them technically, physically, tactically, and mentally for game situations. In the book Psychology for Musicians by Percy C. Buck (1944) says, "An amateur practices until he can do a thing right, a professional until he can't do it wrong." Many athletes participate in sport because they have the desire to achieve, thus, attending practices will help them conquer personal goals and …show more content…
Basil's Ultimate Frisbee team. The practice begins at three pm and runs for an hour and a half, the coach would arrive twenty minutes early to assess the logistics for the practice. "Is the field available?", "Is there anything that might harm the athletes?" and so on. Once the athletes have arrived, the coach would take a few minutes greeting at the athletes, explain what will be done during practice, and describe what the warm up activities will be. The warm up consists of jogging four laps around the track, then two more laps while throwing a disc back and forth with a partner, followed by some dynamic stretching led by a different athlete each practice, and finishing off with practicing different types of throws with a partner. The coach likes to emphasize the section of the warm up where an athlete leads the team in stretching because this allows each athlete to fulfill their desire for self-direction, a wish to feel a sense of control, to feel in charge, which allows them to experience a leadership position. (Coach Association of Canada. 2013, p.