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wonderful day today sunny outside
createdate okay thanks for the
invitation for TEDx three years ago I
have a colleague I really I really like
him his name is Anna d3 and he’s working
at the American University of Beirut and
he was busy with a very complex
neurocognitive theory called transient
hypofrontality forget it but the theory
is really good he wrote like a lot of
articles nobody understood it and then
he had this chance eighteen minutes
explain it in TEDx look at this video
you got it in exactly 18 minutes so
great format today I’m talking about
sports psychology that’s right I’m a
sports psychologist professor research
and teaching I’m not so talking too much
about research and teaching I’m just
talking about my stuff I’m doing beside
that like applied stuff no research I
just want to give you three messages
today first why is a black sport
psychology so different from whatever
second what is the background and the
approaches we are working with and third
why it leads us that why it does this
lead us into a dilemma and I hope at the
end of my talk you understand what the
applied sport psychology setting is and
what the problem is with that when are
usually meeting people at the first time
and we start talking and then what
you’re doing what’s your job and I said
I’m sports psychologists the next
question I got is okay where’s your red
couch standing
can you imagine lying vitali klitschko
on a red couch talking about his
nightmare dreams
and me just interpreting the streams
unbelievable no way or this tennis
superstar serena williams sitting on a
sofa and just free associating about her
thoughts which want to be interpreted by
the other no chance so this is not the
setting we are working in sports
psychology just give you two examples
which i had in the last 10 years to two
small examples of athletes um basically
i’m working with top athletes one one
example was i was working with a female
springboard diver you know springboard
springboard diving is like you jump from
3 or 10 meters and do some somersaults
and stuff like that and you have to dive
exactly and this female springboard
diver she was very talented one of the
best divers we had in germany and she
was like performing 8 months before the
Olympics a 305 B this is a special
language a diving language which means
it’s a two and a half some reverse
somersault so you jump forward and you
flip backward and you do it very close
to the board so sometime it happens
bang okay so this this diver was very
was very optimistic about the
participation at the Olympics but after
this little accident
she didn’t even could imagine that dive
anymore so this was a cruel setting
because this dive was so important
because it was a very complicated dive
gives a lot of points and this is the
only way to gain much points to maybe
win a medal so we worked like six seven
months but I come back to this issue
later not another example marathon
runner
national top marathon you know what
marathon running is anybody run a
marathon here no 42 kilometers okay a
long way but these guys are running this
40 42 kilometers in two hours
10 to 14 minutes that means like three
minutes per kilometer 42 times repeating
Li so this is marathon running in in a
top elite level so this athlete was
really good he was very ambitious he was
passionate about running and he was he
could go this speed for a long time in
training he could always show that he
can run in that area 2 to 14 something
but always every time he was going into
competition at some point he got bad
side stitches but no physiotherapist no
medical doctor could find out what it is
so he was basically healthy but he was
just getting these pains after 34 35
kilometers nobody could help him this is
just an example to show you how we were
not what we are working but in which
settings we are working so do you think
we have psychological office no we don’t
have you understand that very quickly
because how is a day of a high elite
athletes look like usually they stand up
at 6 o’clock in the morning or 7 first
practice session like two hours a little
bit breakfast before maybe after two
hours practice coming home relax a
little bit getting some food maybe work
maybe study if they are students second
practice
again two hours coming back again
relaxing a little bit little bit longer
than before and then the second
sometimes depends on which season part
you are you have the third practice so
they come home at like 8 o’clock in the
evening do you think they like to come
to a psychological office psycho
psychologists office then no chance so
one big difference between the sports
psychologists and other psychologists is
that we don’t do not have like these
office hours like like psychology office
we work where the athletes are another
problem is our approach or the
background combined with the approaches
we are running in where we are working
with so you can study sports psychology
here and Halle and like my students come
from two two directions the psychology
and the sports science so both have
strengths and weaknesses so that makes
it interesting to work with the students
from both sides
psychologists they’re experts in
describing analyzing and predicting
behavior that’s what they learn analyzes
describing and predicting behavior very
helpful using diagonal diagonal sticks
and stuff like that they know they know
a lot about how to communicate with
athletes and maybe to help them to that
they develop in the right way they have
most of them have a specific
psychological approach or humanistic
approach that means that a person is
basically social constructive and free
is acting on free will and intentional
planning which
helps him to develop and maybe to
perform the best you can do
a sports scientist has another approach
he knows or she knows a lot of the
different issues which are combined to
sports sports medicine biomechanics
motor control motor learning they know
pretty much about this the performance
system in sports they they know how the
sweat smells from the goalie eggs when
he just like standing there and awaiting
for the penalty kick so they are pretty
much into the setting in the sport
setting but the approach they know best
is the performance enhancement approach
that means they know that hard work
tough training five to seven days a week
sometimes over month working every day
every day every day without getting any
reward postponing possible rewards in
the future and this sometimes really
contradicts with the humanistic approach
this is a really and there we have the
dilemma
so when psychologists are working in a
in our setting which is basically
combined with the performance we are in
that dilemma so what is what is a good
sports psychologist from my point of
view
he’s an he or she’s an expert in in the
indie in the issue he or she studied
psychology as well as sports sciences
and he or she can solve this dilemma he
or she can solve this dilemma they are
in like in the humanistic area but
working in a performance system there
are other things sports psychologists
is faced with a sports psychologist has
to be with the athlete he’s going to the
arena to the pool at the racetrack
so we are close to the supporting stuff
and do you know when the competition’s
up they don’t have weekends they don’t
have holidays because athletes are
active and performing when other people
are sitting on the couch at home and
want to be entertained by high elite
sports so you don’t have that you have
you don’t have holidays you don’t have
three days you have a lot of traveling
to the training camps and you you’re
always on the road family planning to
get it you’re always on the road so
there could be the question why are you
doing that why are you doing especially
that and now I come back to my two cases
I I I was active with the diver the
diver got it through the Olympic final
and won a bronze medal a pro a pro medal
in diving you just can’t win bronze
medals because the other medals go to
the Chinese they always could win win
gold and silver diving and the marathon
runner he was just reaching his 214 goal
which and they will seem to get back in
the national team and compete at the
european championship so sometimes you
witness this specific moments not very
often but sometimes you you really
witness these specific moments because
you worked so long with the athlete very
tough and you literally you literally
feel what’s going on when you just
observe this competition between the
athlete and the task everything runs
smoothly and perfect a perfect moment
and you know exactly what will happen in
a few with lower seconds this is an
absolutely high this is an unbeaten
to unbeatable cake an unbeatable truck
and believe me I’m happy that I’m a
junkie for the rest of my life thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
wonderful day today sunny outside
createdate okay thanks for the
invitation for TEDx three years ago I
have a colleague I really I really like
him his name is Anna d3 and he’s working
at the American University of Beirut and
he was busy with a very complex
neurocognitive theory called transient
hypofrontality forget it but the theory
is really good he wrote like a lot of
articles nobody understood it and then
he had this chance eighteen minutes
explain it in TEDx look at this video
you got it in exactly 18 minutes so
great format today I’m talking about
sports psychology that’s right I’m a
sports psychologist professor research
and teaching I’m not so talking too much
about research and teaching I’m just
talking about my stuff I’m doing beside
that like applied stuff no research I
just want to give you three messages
today first why is a black sport
psychology so different from whatever
second what is the background and the
approaches we are working with and third
why it leads us that why it does this
lead us into a dilemma and I hope at the
end of my talk you understand what the
applied sport psychology setting is and
what the problem is with that when are
usually meeting people at the first time
and we start talking and then what
you’re doing what’s your job and I said
I’m sports psychologists the next
question I got is okay where’s your red
couch standing
can you imagine lying vitali klitschko
on a red couch talking about his
nightmare dreams
and me just interpreting the streams
unbelievable no way or this tennis
superstar serena williams sitting on a
sofa and just free associating about her
thoughts which want to be interpreted by
the other no chance so this is not the
setting we are working in sports
psychology just give you two examples
which i had in the last 10 years to two
small examples of athletes um basically
i’m working with top athletes one one
example was i was working with a female
springboard diver you know springboard
springboard diving is like you jump from
3 or 10 meters and do some somersaults
and stuff like that and you have to dive
exactly and this female springboard
diver she was very talented one of the
best divers we had in germany and she
was like performing 8 months before the
Olympics a 305 B this is a special
language a diving language which means
it’s a two and a half some reverse
somersault so you jump forward and you
flip backward and you do it very close
to the board so sometime it happens
bang okay so this this diver was very
was very optimistic about the
participation at the Olympics but after
this little accident
she didn’t even could imagine that dive
anymore so this was a cruel setting
because this dive was so important
because it was a very complicated dive
gives a lot of points and this is the
only way to gain much points to maybe
win a medal so we worked like six seven
months but I come back to this issue
later not another example marathon
runner
national top marathon you know what
marathon running is anybody run a
marathon here no 42 kilometers okay a
long way but these guys are running this
40 42 kilometers in two hours
10 to 14 minutes that means like three
minutes per kilometer 42 times repeating
Li so this is marathon running in in a
top elite level so this athlete was
really good he was very ambitious he was
passionate about running and he was he
could go this speed for a long time in
training he could always show that he
can run in that area 2 to 14 something
but always every time he was going into
competition at some point he got bad
side stitches but no physiotherapist no
medical doctor could find out what it is
so he was basically healthy but he was
just getting these pains after 34 35
kilometers nobody could help him this is
just an example to show you how we were
not what we are working but in which
settings we are working so do you think
we have psychological office no we don’t
have you understand that very quickly
because how is a day of a high elite
athletes look like usually they stand up
at 6 o’clock in the morning or 7 first
practice session like two hours a little
bit breakfast before maybe after two
hours practice coming home relax a
little bit getting some food maybe work
maybe study if they are students second
practice
again two hours coming back again
relaxing a little bit little bit longer
than before and then the second
sometimes depends on which season part
you are you have the third practice so
they come home at like 8 o’clock in the
evening do you think they like to come
to a psychological office psycho
psychologists office then no chance so
one big difference between the sports
psychologists and other psychologists is
that we don’t do not have like these
office hours like like psychology office
we work where the athletes are another
problem is our approach or the
background combined with the approaches
we are running in where we are working
with so you can study sports psychology
here and Halle and like my students come
from two two directions the psychology
and the sports science so both have
strengths and weaknesses so that makes
it interesting to work with the students
from both sides
psychologists they’re experts in
describing analyzing and predicting
behavior that’s what they learn analyzes
describing and predicting behavior very
helpful using diagonal diagonal sticks
and stuff like that they know they know
a lot about how to communicate with
athletes and maybe to help them to that
they develop in the right way they have
most of them have a specific
psychological approach or humanistic
approach that means that a person is
basically social constructive and free
is acting on free will and intentional
planning which
helps him to develop and maybe to
perform the best you can do
a sports scientist has another approach
he knows or she knows a lot of the
different issues which are combined to
sports sports medicine biomechanics
motor control motor learning they know
pretty much about this the performance
system in sports they they know how the
sweat smells from the goalie eggs when
he just like standing there and awaiting
for the penalty kick so they are pretty
much into the setting in the sport
setting but the approach they know best
is the performance enhancement approach
that means they know that hard work
tough training five to seven days a week
sometimes over month working every day
every day every day without getting any
reward postponing possible rewards in
the future and this sometimes really
contradicts with the humanistic approach
this is a really and there we have the
dilemma
so when psychologists are working in a
in our setting which is basically
combined with the performance we are in
that dilemma so what is what is a good
sports psychologist from my point of
view
he’s an he or she’s an expert in in the
indie in the issue he or she studied
psychology as well as sports sciences
and he or she can solve this dilemma he
or she can solve this dilemma they are
in like in the humanistic area but
working in a performance system there
are other things sports psychologists
is faced with a sports psychologist has
to be with the athlete he’s going to the
arena to the pool at the racetrack
so we are close to the supporting stuff
and do you know when the competition’s
up they don’t have weekends they don’t
have holidays because athletes are
active and performing when other people
are sitting on the couch at home and
want to be entertained by high elite
sports so you don’t have that you have
you don’t have holidays you don’t have
three days you have a lot of traveling
to the training camps and you you’re
always on the road family planning to
get it you’re always on the road so
there could be the question why are you
doing that why are you doing especially
that and now I come back to my two cases
I I I was active with the diver the
diver got it through the Olympic final
and won a bronze medal a pro a pro medal
in diving you just can’t win bronze
medals because the other medals go to
the Chinese they always could win win
gold and silver diving and the marathon
runner he was just reaching his 214 goal
which and they will seem to get back in
the national team and compete at the
european championship so sometimes you
witness this specific moments not very
often but sometimes you you really
witness these specific moments because
you worked so long with the athlete very
tough and you literally you literally
feel what’s going on when you just
observe this competition between the
athlete and the task everything runs
smoothly and perfect a perfect moment
and you know exactly what will happen in
a few with lower seconds this is an
absolutely high this is an unbeaten
to unbeatable cake an unbeatable truck
and believe me I’m happy that I’m a
junkie for the rest of my life thank you
[Applause]
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