Flow-feeling: sua utilização entre atletas infanto-juvenil da modalidade tênis de campo individual

Abstract

Tennis is considered an intermittent mode, as alternating high intensity movements and short with moments of recovery, as Bassan et al (2013). Therefore, it is necessary to know what are the factors that affect the athlete's performance, since the physiological part to external factors. The FF can be characterized as supreme state of concentration to achieve certain autotelic goal, the self decreases and the sense of time is distorted, giving an odd sense of pleasure and satisfaction, as Csikszentmihaly. It is a desired state by elite athletes, but Jackson (1996) states that can be enjoyed by practitioners of any level. The study was a qualitative research, in order to note the presence or absence of said state, through the use of focus groups (GF) seeking to understand a certain experience of the participants in a certain environment, in order to note the presence or absence of this condition in athletes income working in Children and Youth category 12-16 years, as well as coaches of the above category. The meetings of GF were recorded, transcribed and analyzed later. It was found that the athletes felt specific moments of this state without a continuity and the need for greater psychological work in training and adequacy of theoretical knowledge with the planning and execution (practice).