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In sport psychology, there are many factors involving in each sport player ’s
can be divided into four categories. As a rock climber, the theory that is suitable for me
is the optimum arousal theory which will be discussed later in this essay.
functioning (IZOF), was created by Hanin in 1997. The model of IZOF presumes and
hypothesizes the relationship between emotions and optimal performances that will
function best for each individual athlete, and aims to foretell the upcoming performance
IZOF which also associating with emotional intensity and varied performance quality
(Kamata, Tenenbaum and Hanin, 2002). The IZOF theory is undeniably suited to sport
climbing due to the fact that every single athlete is different, they have different
techniques while competing which require different pathways to reach the goal
psychologists can easily identify relationship between personal level of anxiety and
performance. For instance, people who do rock climbing will have their own optimal
point of arousal and need to be specifically on their zone to maximize their performance
very calm to concentrate with the routes and to figure out how to top out while others
might require higher arousal to push themselves through their limits and top out the
route in time. This conveys that each athlete has his or her own optimal zone of arousal
to perform best.
The IZOF model is created for an individual athlete along with their performance
records. Such model are very varied and can be drawn as a bar chart. It starts with the
lowest level of arousal from the left to the highest arousal level from the right. Each
individual will have their own specific zone. For instance, a rock climber who performs
best with low level of arousal will have a bar chart that highlighted the left area of the
bar, in which the area highlighted is according to the range of the arousal level that the
athlete can obtain. The strength of this theory is the adjustability of the model. The chart
can be adjust and recreate from every performance of the climbers even though it
might not be similar in every competition but the approximation can be assumed. On the
other hand, the weakness is that the performance does not depend only on the level of
arousal, but also on other factors such as diet and resting which can alter the result of
the performance.
In conclusion, rock climbing is a sport that has various styles of athlete, therefore,
IZOF is the most suitable theory for rock climbers. The IZOF not only designate to an
individual but also flexible which help the climbers to estimate their own zone of optimal
arousal.
References
1. Kamata, A., Tenenbaum, G., & Hanin, Y. L. (2002). Index. Individual Zone of Optimal
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