Technical Analysis and Development of Single Bamboo Floating from the Perspective of Education and Psychology
Checklist of psychological variables involved in climbing. Operationalizing expert’s knowledge
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In climbing both technical and physical skills have proven to be highly demanding and plenty of research has been done to prove so, but, coaches and climbers claim that psychological factors play a determining role and are key for high performance. It becomes necessary to develop new strategies to established empiric or theoretical base to support psychology to be applied to climbing. The aim of this study was to identify psychological variables needed to improve and excel as a climber and to operationalize implicit expert knowledge. To this end, using a mixed quantitative-qualitative method, four Spanish high-level coaches were interviewed and participated in a three-round focus group. Results found were organized and grouped according to the model of psychological dimensions proposed by Sánchez & Torregrosa in order to create an assessment tool that provides coaches information about climber’s mental skills follow up. The final result was the creation of a Mobile APP checklist of psychological variables involved in climbing that can provide real time performance information, share individual climber’s follow-up and comparison with other climbers. Future lines of research were proposed for the improvement of assessment tools for psychological skills in climbing that can help coaches and trainers to record, enhance and predict performance.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
