Edited by Dr. Stefano Casali
" first part
Considerations
As an instructor, coach, coach, we always have a single denominator: through training we can produce appreciable educational results. We have the task of helping our students to improve their learning processes; the best way to achieve these results is to create conditions favorable to learning, or to be facilitators of these processes. We must always keep in mind the fundamental element, motivation, which remains in any case and at every level at the basis of any sporting success; motivation is undoubtedly the key to accessing everyday work, through which the athlete satisfies his needs, positive stimuli, interest and fun, the search for affiliation with the coach and training partners and, last but not least, the need for affirmation and success. Young people love sport, especially as an opportunity to socialization and fun: if the sports club (or the chosen discipline) leaves unsatisfied in this respect, the lack of time and school commitments will most likely lead the "athlete to abandon" (Benassi AR, 2003). certainly find consumerism and distractions, but sport also has its faults: often there is no abandonment "of a sport" ", but" "of sport" "; and the reasons can be traced susceptible to the difficulty of reconciling study with sporting activity, misunderstandings with coaches or too high costs. In this context, the role that sports clubs play today, which organize competitive activities in the area and which tend to an early start to competitive sport for young people, is important, with intensive selections and training that lead discarded subjects to consider themselves out of the field. I play as athletes of no particular interest. In adolescence, all this produces an attitude of renouncing any sporting practice, since it is experienced as a failure and, consequently, as a source of insecurity. Some attribute the problem of abandonment to the defects of the young person d "today, too satisfied with other interests, who would have a scarce aptitude to commit to something that costs effort and renunciation and does not pay immediately. For this reason it is important that the adolescent is assisted in this phase of his life, because he can easily do non-constructive choices and decide before having reached maturity (Del Piano, 1999).
What to do
We must try to innovate Italian youth sport if we wish to respond to the new needs of the very young and young people. We must all together be able to offer new motivations and more stimulating organizational methods for introducing sport, especially for the youth competitive sector, with projects more tailored to the real needs of children and young people. We have to start again from the School, from the schools of autonomy, involving them more in the planning aspects, supporting new forms of promotion and practice, enhancing the teacher as an essential educational and training moment to start young people towards a better sporting practice, according to unity of "intentions and strong collaboration with the world of traditional sports associations."
Webgraphy
www.avolta.pg.it; www.tesionline.it; www.psyco.com; www.swimmingonweb.net;
www.opsonline.it; www.acrobax.org; www.uisp.it; www.calciodonna.it;
www.nuke.uisp.trieste.it; www.unassi.it; www.psicologiaesport.it
