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Routines, rituals and rugby: case study of a world class goal kicker

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posted on 2016-07-22, 14:52 authored by Robin JacksonRobin Jackson, Julien S. Baker
This paper presents a case study of the most prolific rugby goal kicker of all time. In the first part of the study, the consistency of his preperformance routine was analyzed over kicks of varying difficulty. Results indicate that while certain physical aspects of this routine remain consistent, both his concentration time and physical preparation time increase with kick difficulty. In the second part of the study, the participant was interviewed about his physical and mental preparation for rugby goal kicking in competitive situations. The interview revealed that the participant incorporates a number of psychological skills into his routine, including thought stopping, cueing, and imagery but does not do so consistently. However, he perceives the timing of his routine to be highly consistent. Implications of these finding for the recommendation that performers strive for temporal consistency in their routines. (Boutcher, 1990) are discussed.

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Sport Psychologist

Volume

15

Pages

48 - 65

Citation

JACKSON, R. and BAKER, J., 2001. Routines, rituals and rugby: case study of a world class goal kicker. Sport Psychologist, 15 (1), pp.48-65.

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© Human Kinetics

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2001

Notes

Closed access.

ISSN

0888-4781

eISSN

1543-2793

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