Knowing the immense amount of information they could find and to the doubts that assail me the terms and / or new concepts or few relatives to a patient, I decided to narrow the search to what I considered the evil of all my evils Loss concentration.
My efforts to maintain and improve the dynamics of my game as well as curiosity about the origins of this singular behavior along the need for answers took me to meet numerous authors, books, essays and articles . Hours and hours of rewarding reading, you'd think!, Or that the darts were the source of my existence!, To see if it turns out now, instead of spending my time reading your bank statements, I work with a committed reading all that until recently was far from my universe!. In old age, chickenpox, as my grandmother.
Anyway, I finally found what I wanted and decided to implement the model proposed Robert Nideffer (1976) attention on personal performance and therefore clearly applied to my own experience as the disorder caused by lack of concentration on the game darts. Nideffer
proposes a theoretical model for establishing the existence of two dimensions on the process of focusing the attention: the amplitude and direction.
amplitude: is the amount of information that a dart player may receive when approaching the goal line and is subdivided according to the degree and direction of stimuli: narrow and wide. Let's say the wide range corresponds to all information that comes in the place where we are disputing the game and focus more closely on what we get closer to us. This is about our ability to focus training to learn to distinguish or discriminate information that at the time of launch we can not be actually useful, example is the old-decibel music, or cries, or sounds or noise coffee grinder. On the other hand are the words of encouragement spoken by familiar voices or anonymous.
Address: is where we direct our attention and has two points of origin inside and external. The inner is for our own feelings and thoughts (we lose, I have it right ...), while focusing on external stimuli from our surroundings (the guy shouting, dragging the tables, the volume of TV ads when they arrive, the door squeaks ...).
However, based on the theoretical model is implemented Nideffer learning to acquire a technique that allows me to stay focused solely focused on the task at that very moment I am doing, and is neither more nor less than of throwing a dart.
may seem improper a fan of darts, but I start my self-training sessions when more full the local, preferably with the transmission of an exciting football game, and if there is a party, the better. I try to take your MP3 player, but not with music but the audio of the last debate in the Congress of Deputies. I tell my best friend while you are pulling me explain how good it happened in the last championship, I tell the barman that can make me grind three kilos of coffee to talk or cry ... it gives me alike. The least important is to click on a triple in that time will come. The most important thing is to train my concentration, with time reap the fruits. And over time, the harvest was good. Now I understand perfectly
a famous tennis player who said he trained by viewing a tennis ball for an indefinite time without taking his eyes on. The ball placed it on the television while cast their favorite show, and who knows not with a more exciting can monopolize all the senses of a human being. Where is a good concentration, you remove the superfluous. Train yourself
, Concentrate, Play and Enjoy.
good game! Miguel Angel
