Sport Psychology Response 4

Sport Psychology – Response 4
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Sport Psychology – Response 4
Discussion 1 Response
I like your discussion, especially how you distinguish the High-Risk Sports and elite athletes from the athletes who take part in ordinary sports. Indeed the elite athletes and those who take part in high-risk sports are driven by personality traits which can be described higher than those posed by average sports athletes. The group of athletes seeks dominance, exhibition, and achievement and wants to portray daring courage (Booth Jr, 1958). However, I developed a lot of interest in the assumption you mentioned about these athletes sharing birth order interest and that the firstborns avoid high-risk sports. How? I think this the question I would ask you since you never gave a further elaboration on the said assumption. Further discussion on this would provide more light for me to believe the same premise.
Discussion 1 Response
Your discussion is lovely and well elaborated since you bring out a clear picture of what the high-risk sports means and why seen as risky. However, as you continue to justify the level of risks involved in these sports, I find some concern of the illustration you give in your discussion. I mean, you talk of your friend who passed away as he participated in high-risk sport and some other deaths that have occurred out of the high-risk sports (LeUnes, & Nation, 2008). I believe the issue of death happening is normal in sports even among the soft sports where we have had players hit by the ball and they die.

Though, I must agree with you that the incidences are rampant in high-risk sports (Jarvis, 2006). I would also differ with you that there is less information on elite sports. I believe the information available is enough to determine elite sports.
Discussion 1 Response
I must admit your discussion has well elaborated the prevailing assumption that firstborns less take part in high-risk sports than last born athletes. I like how you convince your readers that actually, first-borns have not been exposed to any form of competition or hardship within the family and find no reason to do something extra. The case is different from the last-borns who are born and find others existing and probably take them through various stages of sports making them more daring (Harris, & Harris, 1984). However, don’t you think that this assumption fails to consider the later stage of the first-born? Does it only mean that children play within their homes? Unless they live in an island, band if they have neighbors, children can play together and make any child participate in risk sports irrespective of the order of birth.
Discussion 2 Response
Your discussion is excellent and well-presented on how you best serve your clients in your field of career. At the beginning of your conversation, you state that you find education you have been gaining in your area while working has not been valuable. You then go ahead and indicate that you are learning about the mental state and physical body while training athletes through your course. Is it not a contradiction or was a typing error somewhere? Anyway, I must agree with you that exercise therapy is one of the best especially for moms and women experiencing post-partum depression (Kajtna, Tu&scaronak, Bari&cacute, & Burnik, 2004).
Discussion 2 Response
Your discussion in reference the importance of the education you are having is right and how you feel it is necessary to understand the components leading to a successful athlete who exercises. You indeed pinpoint on the various stressors and the anxiety that the athletes go through while exercising. However, I think your discussion gives a lot of credit to your theoretical part than the practical part. If you want to be the best in the field of exercise psychology, probably you need to emphasize practical training.

References
Booth Jr, E. G. (1958). Personality traits of athletes as measured by the MMPI. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 29(2), 127-138.
Harris, D. V., & Harris, B. L. (1984). The athlete’s guide to sports psychology: Mental skills for physical people. Champaign, IL: Leisure Press.
Jarvis, M. (2006). Sport psychology: A student’s handbook. Routledge.
Kajtna, T., Tu&scaronak, M., Bari&cacute, R., & Burnik, S. (2004). Personality in high-risk sports athletes. Kinesiology, 36(1).
LeUnes, A., & Nation, J. R. (2008). Sport Psychology (4 o ed.).