(A) the origin of competitive sports
1, the concept of competitive sports Competitive sports is an important part of sports, which is a social sports activity with sports competition as its main feature and creating excellent sports achievements and winning competitions as its main goal.
2. The basic motivation of the formation of competitive sports can be summarized as the following three aspects: first, biological factors; Second, personality and psychological factors; The third is sociological factors.
(B) A century review of the development of modern competitive sports
As a basic component of sports, competitive sports is a social activity with great influence, which always develops and perfects synchronously with human society. The development of modern competitive sports in the 20th century can be clearly described from the following aspects: the extensive development of competitive sports in the world, the establishment of a relatively complete management system, the increasingly active sports competition, the centennial event of the modern Olympic Games, the continuous improvement of the scientific level of sports training, and the professionalization and commercialization trend of competitive sports.
1, competitive sports are widely developed in the world.
2. Establish a relatively perfect management system.
3. Sports competitions are becoming more and more active.
4. centennial event of modern Olympic Games
5. The level of sports competition and the scientific level of sports training have been continuously improved.
6. The trend of professionalization and commercialization of competitive sports development.
Second, the composition of competitive sports
From different practical processes, competitive sports include four organic components: athlete selection, sports training, sports competition and competitive sports management.
Selection of athletes
The selection of athletes is the beginning of competitive sports, and the primary task is to select children and teenagers with good sports talent and competitive potential or reserve forces to participate in sports training. Attention should be paid to the characteristics of each sport when selecting materials, and scientific testing and forecasting methods should be used to improve the success rate of selecting materials.
(2) Sports training
Sports training is a planned sports activity specially organized to improve athletes' competitive ability and performance under the guidance of coaches. Sports training is not only an integral part of competitive sports, but also the most important way to achieve the goals of competitive sports.
(3) Sports competitions
Sports competition is a competitive competition between individual athletes or sports teams under the auspices of referees and in accordance with the requirements of unified rules. It is a medium that competitive sports are related to and act on society. Athletes' competitive ability is constantly improved through training. Only by showing it in the form of sports competition can they be recognized by the society and meet the needs of members of society.
(D) Competitive sports management
Whether it is athlete selection, sports training or sports competition, it must be organized and managed by a special management system in order to be implemented and achieve ideal results. Therefore, the management of competitive sports is also an important part of competitive sports.
Third, the basic characteristics of competitive sports
As a social activity of human beings, competitive sports has its own characteristics.
(1) competitiveness
"Competition" in competitive sports refers to competitions and competitions, and "skill" refers to sports skills. The ability of athletes to participate in competitions, that is, competitive ability. Therefore, competitive sports can be simply understood as a kind of sports activity with relatively high competitive level. Fierce competition has become one of the most essential characteristics that distinguish competitive sports from other sports.
(2) Normality
The development of modern competitive sports requires athletes to have highly perfect skills, otherwise it is difficult to win the competition. High skill is the foundation of competitive sports, but high skill is based on the requirements of technical and tactical training norms.
(3) Fairness
The competition of competitive sports should be conducted under highly fair conditions. In other words, competitive sports competitions should be reasonable and not biased towards any participant. Without fair competition, competitive sports cannot be carried out normally. In order to ensure a fair and just competition, the organizers of competitive sports have made clear regulations on the events, time, place, venue equipment and athletes' qualifications. Strict codes of conduct have been formulated for athletes' participation behavior, competition organization and referee work.
group
Competitive sports is a group behavior composed of several athletes. Only a certain number of athletes can participate at the same time can D organize the competition. In the collective movement, this clustering feature is more prominent. (5) Openness
With the development of modern communication system, major sports events can become social activities that attract hundreds of millions of people around the world. In addition, competition agencies
Education has more obvious characteristics of openness and externality than general social activities.
(6) Appreciation
Competitive sports are developed from games with entertainment as the main purpose, and the increasingly fierce competition of modern competitive sports greatly enhances its appreciation. Participants can not only express themselves and beat their opponents, but also the audience can gain a unique sense of relaxation and beautiful enjoyment by watching competitive sports games. Therefore, watching football matches has become one of the best ways for the masses to pass the time.
Four. With the development of human society, competitive sports has become an important part of human social life and plays an increasingly important role. Mainly in the following aspects:
(A) to stimulate the spirit of human self-struggle
In the process of its own development, human beings constantly adapt to and transform nature, and constantly pursue new achievements and breakthroughs. The endless pursuit of competitive athletes, every improvement of 0.0 1 second, every appearance of new technical movements and every wonderful performance are the concentrated embodiment and vivid portrayal of this spirit of struggle. The competitiveness cultivated by athletes in sports training and displayed in sports competitions is also an important quality for human survival and development.
(B) to meet the ornamental needs of social life
With the development of modern society and the awakening of human subject consciousness, great changes have taken place in their own needs. Modern people pursue not only the satisfaction of material life, but also the richness of spiritual life. Watching high-level competitive sports has become an important part of people's leisure life. mankind
(c) Promoting public participation in sports.
The combination of excellent athletes' output and beauty on the competitive stage, the confrontation between courage and wisdom, superb technology and tenacious will will will serve as brilliant examples and successful examples to attract more teenagers to participate in sports activities. Around the Olympic Games and some world-class major competitive sports competitions, as well as the convening of the National Games, there will be a climax of mass sports activities.
(four) to show the comprehensive strength of the state and social groups.
Modern competitive sports has become a "window" of the comprehensive strength of politics, economy, culture and science and technology of a country and a nation.
The success or failure of competitive sports competition is not only related to the personal honor of athletes, but also to the honor of a country and social groups. Many countries and social groups attach great importance to competitive sports and invest a lot of manpower and material resources. Promoting the rapid development of social economy, the development of competitive sports will inevitably change the consumption structure of human beings and promote the production and circulation of material materials related to sports training and sports competitions. Holding large-scale sports competitions can not only directly obtain economic benefits, but also promote the development of related industries. Competitive sports has become an important part of sports industry. The convening of the Barcelona Olympic Games has promoted the urban development of Barcelona 10-25 years.
(six) to solve the bad mood of social members.
Participating in sports training and sports competitions or watching sports competitions will not only help people's physical health, but also help solve many bad thoughts and psychological states and guide good social behavior norms and mental outlook.