Boxing Performance
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course provides knowledge in the specific and distinctive aspects of boxing by analyzing the training sessions and competitions' performance models.
It outlines the differences between amateur boxing and professional boxing. It provides the tools to create qualitative content planning and it provides the tools to apply quantitative data in relation to boxing situational aspects. The course also provides theoretical skills being able to deal with boxer training related issues in the regards of availability, lifestyle and winning attitude. Different daily and sporting aspects of boxer management interpretations are analyzed.
It outlines the differences between amateur boxing and professional boxing. It provides the tools to create qualitative content planning and it provides the tools to apply quantitative data in relation to boxing situational aspects. The course also provides theoretical skills being able to deal with boxer training related issues in the regards of availability, lifestyle and winning attitude. Different daily and sporting aspects of boxer management interpretations are analyzed.
Expected learning outcomes
The student will acquire the needed sports, managerial and organizational skills to lead a boxing team. He will acquire technical skills in coaching, physical conditioning and training to pursue performances and injury prevention. Students will develop a holistic approach to boxer physical and psychic management. They will acquire constructive criticism tools for boxing development and advancement.
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
Teaching unit 1: Performance model
Brief historiography about boxing from classic age to the contemporary age. It will show the boxing performance model and it will go towards a theoretical model about the classical boxing methodology and it will elaborate new insights about methods using laboratory outcome.
Particular attention will be given to the methodological aspects of teaching by analyzing the different learning phases of the practice of boxing. The practice will consist in an implementation of the theoretical assumptions provided during the theoretical lessons.
Teaching unit 2: The qualitative approach and the ontology of fear in boxing
The concepts of sports periodization are analyzed from the biological assumptions of Varela and modern cognitive sciences. The dichotomous mind-body paradigm will be discussed trying to develop a scientific methodological training paradigm that assumes the mind-body unit as a performance unit. A qualitative and quantitative sports planning methodology that can be modeled on regional teams in training and elite teams will then be exposed.
It will analyze the most important sports mental states - Flow, Clutch, Choke state - according to the current neuroscientific researches. It is proposed a qualitative and experiential approach to control emotional state e improve performance. A qualitative-experiential approach is proposed for the control of emotional states and the improvement of performance. The theoretical structure will be an implementation of the theories discussed in the previous modules and the ontology of mental states will be researched in authors such as Spinoza and Heidegger. The practice will consist in the application in the gym of a situational propaedeutic able to convey the athlete's mind towards a certain mental state.
Teaching unit 3: Training practice
The practice will consist in the application of the qualitative and quantitative theoretical assumptions discussed in the first two modules. The management of a sports group will be taught and the training session will be rationalized according to the theoretical assumptions discussed in the first two modules.
Brief historiography about boxing from classic age to the contemporary age. It will show the boxing performance model and it will go towards a theoretical model about the classical boxing methodology and it will elaborate new insights about methods using laboratory outcome.
Particular attention will be given to the methodological aspects of teaching by analyzing the different learning phases of the practice of boxing. The practice will consist in an implementation of the theoretical assumptions provided during the theoretical lessons.
Teaching unit 2: The qualitative approach and the ontology of fear in boxing
The concepts of sports periodization are analyzed from the biological assumptions of Varela and modern cognitive sciences. The dichotomous mind-body paradigm will be discussed trying to develop a scientific methodological training paradigm that assumes the mind-body unit as a performance unit. A qualitative and quantitative sports planning methodology that can be modeled on regional teams in training and elite teams will then be exposed.
It will analyze the most important sports mental states - Flow, Clutch, Choke state - according to the current neuroscientific researches. It is proposed a qualitative and experiential approach to control emotional state e improve performance. A qualitative-experiential approach is proposed for the control of emotional states and the improvement of performance. The theoretical structure will be an implementation of the theories discussed in the previous modules and the ontology of mental states will be researched in authors such as Spinoza and Heidegger. The practice will consist in the application in the gym of a situational propaedeutic able to convey the athlete's mind towards a certain mental state.
Teaching unit 3: Training practice
The practice will consist in the application of the qualitative and quantitative theoretical assumptions discussed in the first two modules. The management of a sports group will be taught and the training session will be rationalized according to the theoretical assumptions discussed in the first two modules.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites are requested
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and pratical exercises
Teaching Resources
-Course notes
-Scientific papers provided by the instructor
-Book: R. De Donato. "Gymnastēs. Pugilato tra metodologia e filosofia" Edizione UNIMI press , 2023. (in printing)
-Scientific papers provided by the instructor
-Book: R. De Donato. "Gymnastēs. Pugilato tra metodologia e filosofia" Edizione UNIMI press , 2023. (in printing)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral examination, grade expressed on a scale of thirty
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor:
De Donato Renato
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