Judo’s Mental Imagery Training and Technical Acquisitions among High Institute Students

Abstract

“Mental imagery as a cognitive technique is one of the suitable treatment methods to improve athletic performance (Cumming & al., 2006; Eddy & al., 2003). It can be defined as using all sense to re-create or create a sport experience in the mind with the goal of enhancing sport performance during training and competition (Morris, Spittle & Watt., 2005; Taylor & Wilson., 2005; Weinberg & Gould., 2007). Our study aims to identify the effect of a learning program of mental imagery method in judo standing on the technical acquisitions. 48 students male divided into three groups of 16, (mean age 21.0 ± 1.85) voluntarily participated in this study. Group 1, has a judo mental imagery learning; group 2 has an observational judo learning and group 3 has an analytical judo learning. The revised movement imagery questionnaire (MIQ-R) developed by Hall & Martin (1997) was used in our study before and after the training programs in order to evaluate the ability of imagery overall the subjects. Also a technical test overall judo tested actions with a three levels scale from (0 = without acquisition), (0.5 = minimal acquisition) to (1= maximal acquisition). The results of the analytical chi-square calculated in different learning methods are not significant which show us that the three groups presented a similar acquisitions in declarative knowledge justified by the global chi-square, which is significant at p