A Comprehensive Analysis: Sports Imagery Ability Of State Level Badminton Players From North-Eastern State India
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Mental Imaging is about running it all over in your mind to practice through imagination. Imagery is also known as visualization, which is practiced in conscious brain to mimic the past experience in real time. The purpose of this study is to explore the current status of the sports imagery ability of state level badminton players in arunachal Pradesh. The data has been collected through sports imagery ability questionnaire (Williams, S. E., & Cumming, J. in 2014) during Dorjee Khandu Memorial State Badminton Championships from 2021 to 2023 held on several districts of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The purposive sampling technique has been employed for collecting the data. The questionnaire has been shared to the players a day before their match with the illustrations regarding it. Total number of 100 state level badminton player the age ranges from 19 to 30 years of age category from different districts of arunachal has been involved to fill the questionnaires. The descriptive statistics and descriptive profile has been employed to evaluate the data in IBM spss version 22. The study reveals that the present status of the imagery ability of the players still needs focus but there is still wide scope to improve. As taking the status views through research the badminton players could be more sensible about their mental imaging ability. The study concludes that imagery practice should include in daily schedule to deal and combining it with physical practice may awake player’s positive performance.
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