The Effectiveness of Mental Training of Direct and Non-Direct learning backstroke

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Experimental community of a total   137 students were volunteered from first year, college of physical  education , university of Tikrit during 2012-2013, Samples consisted of 20 student (25%) divided into two equal groups , direct and indirect mental training to learn backstroke for 8 weeks. Results revealed that both of mental training contributed considerably in the backstroke learning, the first group used direct mental consummated significant improvement in the post-test of back swim. This may be support and suitable for different swim types and other sports.

Keywords:   Mental training, direct and non-direct learning, backstroke.