(Self-confidence and its relationship to the accuracy of the performance of the dropped forehand kick skill in flying badminton)

Abstract

By knowing the behavior of the athlete, which is the goal of researchers, educators, and those interested in studying sports psychology, and because of the many variables that occur to the player in training and competition, he needs to search to prove himself, and fulfill his desires to reach a certain achievement.

As the acquisition of basic badminton skills is linked to self-confidence and perfect performance that comes through repetition and providing opportunities for success that the coach prepares for his players to gain them self-confidence and elaborate performance that generates a defensive build for them towards achieving the best sporting results.

Hence the problem of the research was manifested that there is fluctuation in the levels of inaccuracy in the skill performance of badminton players, which reflects the sports self-confidence, which negatively affects the level of results, so the coach must be able to identify the important psychological skills and features and measure sports self-confidence and how to enhance it and its relationship accurately Skill performance for badminton players.

The research aims to identify the relationship between self-confidence and the accuracy of the performance of the skill of the drop-front kick skill of the Babylon University badminton team players 2019-2020. . The researcher used the descriptive approach in the manner of interrelationships and their correlative state due to its relevance to the nature of the problem. The researcher chose the research community in a random way from the players of the Babylon University badminton team, which numbered (10) players for the academic year 2019-2020, and they represent the same research sample. In his research procedures, the researcher relied on the measure of the sporting self-confidence trait, as well as the test of measuring self-confidence among the research sample, and the offensive drop test from above the head, as its purpose is to measure the accuracy of performance for the skill in question. The researcher concluded that self-confidence is one of the influential traits of badminton players and it is necessary to develop and take it into account during the training units for the players.