The attention´s concentration in the free throw performance in Basketball

Abstract

This research is based on the elaboration of a psychological training program in order to improve the attention´s concentration when making the free throw. It was made to basketball athletes, male category 13-15 years old from “Capitan Orestes Acosta” Sports Center, Santiago de Cuba. For its development it was used a research´s qualitative paradigm and specifically, the study device of different cases which were studied thoroughly from the application of different psychological techniques. The main obtained results show that the command level of the athletes’ attention concentration is regular due to the inadequate handling of the pressure situations like the public's exclamations and presence of athlete’s relatives and friends, the opponent's provocations among others. These circumstances bring as a result an execution anxiety and therefore, an inadequate performance of the free throw action.