SOME MENTAL ABILITIES RELATED TO THE DISCUS ACHIEVEMENT

Because the discus competition has plenty of interested people who were studying and developing its skills and its tactics, therefore the recent studies have turned to the subject of mental abilities to search for different ways and means to develop this competition , as the concept of mental abilities is one of the concepts that have emerged in the field of sport studies and in unlimited number of different sport games, the studies which were interested in the concept of mental abilities and its relationship with the skilled performance in many theories, opinions , ideas and thoughts that tried to study this concept in behavioral and Knowledgeably frame, on the sport field, which was till recently depend in its training programs on the physical, skill and tactical aspects only, ignoring unintentionally the mental abilities and its measuring methods and its ways to improving it and its relation with movement skills which leads in the end to the skilled performance of various sport competitions including discus. According the researcher, there is no scientific study mentioned the mental abilities in discus for elite players and its relationship with the achievement of the discus, so the statement of the problem is to know if there is a relationship between some of the mental abilities with the achievement of discus for elite players. The goals of the research: 1. Identify the most important mental abilities of elite players in discus competition. 2. To identify the relationship between some of the mental abilities with the achievement of discus for elite players. The researcher selected the research sample intentionally from elite players of discus for the sport season 2014 - 2015, (6) players were selected, and another (3) players were selected but not from sample of the research for the exploratory experiment. The researcher is clarifying them as follows: (Bourdon- Anvimov) modified test for attention, Sense-Movement recognition test Conclusion: 1. There is significant correlation relation between mental ability (attention intensity) with discus achievement for elite players. 2. There is significant correlation relation between mental ability (attention concentration) with discus achievement for elite players. 3. There is significant correlation relation between mental ability (Sense - movement recognition) represented by the sense recognition of the grip strength test with discus achievement for elite players. 4. There is correlation relation between mental ability (Sense - movement recognition) represented by the sense of time estimation test with discus achievement for elite players.