5 – Emotional Control.

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Description:

Emotional control can be thought of as a facet of emotion regulation, but refers primarily to attempts by an individual to manage the generation, experience, or expression of emotion, and/or one’s emotional responses

Goal of the activity

Propose situations or activities where the player is able to control and manage emotions (both negative and positive) showing sufficient flexibility and self-control to manage to develop nearly 100% of their skills and qualities in competition .

Planning of the session:

The planning of the session corresponds entirely to the coach. Players should propose game situations they want to enhance or improve.

Organization and development:

Through making exercises where the rules of the game are modified and difficult situations are created, we will strengthen the emotional control of the player.

Coach’s task:

The coach proposes the game situation to work and its main function is to observe and to act as a referee of the player’s emotional control. Coaches have to be assertive with the players, and be able to apply the sanctiones necessaries.

Player role:

Play and control emotions.

Practical examples

Working on emotional control “Live ball”:

“2-player versus 2-player matches are held. The goal is to temporarily eliminate the player or players who lose their emotional control”

Method: Competition.

Contents: The rules of the game are defined so that the players can control their emotions. Otherwise there are consequences.

Exercise: Two-player games are played against two players, with the goal that the players at the end of each point know how to manage their emotional control (winning or losing the point). The player who at the end of a point makes any gesture, movement, derogatory word or encouragement to oneself, during that “game” will be eliminated and will not participate again until the next “game”.

Practical cases

It is very difficult to work on emotional control on court, because recreating the situations and pressures that exist in a real competition is extremely difficult, not to say almost impossible. Coaches must be creative and propose high pressure activities, trying to recreate something as similar as possible to real official competition.

Elimination activities and their variants (such as the proposal presented in the previous example) deliver very good results, mainly in players under the age of 13.

You can also establish handicap games (over 13 years), in which there is a player who is very unfavorable to the conditions and these (unreal) conditions force him to control his emotions.

We think that pressuring players with any type of bet (neither physical nor much less economic) is not a valid pedagogical resource for the training of this mental ability.

Variants can be carried out in all proposals

Variants: In the training of emotional control, many activities can be created, although as described above they are difficult to apply and you have to be persistent in your practice.

We only propose 1 or 2 activities, adjusted to the age and level of the players. The important thing is that these are effective and that some improvements are seen in a short time.

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