SELF-EMPATHY
21 december 2019 - Kjellerup, Denemarken
SELF-EMPATHY
I don’t even know what I should call this article because self-empathy is not covering the whole thing I would like to talk about. Like in all my coaching and teaching it start with a small thing I observe and from there try to go into details and consequenties it may have. My conclusion is that the more a player make use for the mobile phone the less talent they have. Now this is a very bold statement because I have very few players who are not using the MP, but the ones who use it less, are smarter, learn faster and make more progress than the control group. And like in all things that I can not prove yet you have to trust your instinct and you have to look for arguments and take out your pri-set opinion.
The things you see happening around you are small things in itself and not one of them is really worrying, add them all up and you have a very worrying picture. It is a picture that is not very good for your private life but that is not the part I’m worried about, I care about the badminton part of the players life. If it has a negative consequence we have to do something about it.
Let's first look at the sommery of all the small things that are related to using a MP all the time. In daily life where people have to wait, you see 9 out of 10 people looking at there phone. You see mothers walking with their children only having eyes for the phone in their hand, leaving the child mentaly alone. Then you see the children who are as young as 3 years been given a phone in their hands so the parents have time to look at their phone. We have seen a whole generation of young people who are physical lonely and unable to start or have relationships with other people. Mobile phones are now officially on the list of killing tools with 2.138 registered kills in traffic in 2016 and 3.467 in 2017 it is the fastest growing of all killing tools, the numbers of serious injuries are even more shocking for 2016 almost 5.000.
When asking people about how long they have a mobile phone in there hand it is up to 6 hours a day where they have a phone in the hand. The eye Center Hospital of Texas has done a study and from that study it shows that the average person looks at their phone about 150 times a day. You may not mind reading smaller text on a smartphone screen, but your eyes sure do. Squinting at on-screen text and videos overworked your muscles around your eyes, neck, and shoulders, and is a major cause of eyestrain and blurred vision. This are two things you don’t want for badminton players, you don’t want stiffness in your neck and shoulders because it will have a big influence on your technical skills and we have seen in training that players using their phones many hours a day find it harder to keep the shuttle inside the court. Your eyes need to blink 15 times a minute. inorder to keep the eyes moisturized when using your phone or computer this number will go down to ½ again this has an effect on your eyesight and will give a blurred effect. In general you can say that the lower the IQ of a person (to some extent) the more this person is using the phone, the higher the education the lower the phone use. You can not have the conclusion that the use of phones makes you less smart maybe smarter people just don’t use the phone as much.
The more I look into this subject the more worried I get, small children already get negative effects of using a phone for more than 20 min a day, the effect is that the eyes don’t develop like they should and this development will most likely not been picked up again later in life. I already did not like it when coaches are looking on their phones when behind the court, or players in the hall playing with their phones and not looking when teammates are playing. But now more and more information about the negative effects are coming up there are more reasons not to use a phone. I’m sure I will write more about this subject in the future, and maybe just maybe this will be something that will help Europe to get closer to Asia because there the use of phone’s is even higher than in Europe.
2 Reacties
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Guus van der Vlugt:21 december 2019Heb het, gelukkig maar één keer, meegemaakt dat teamgenoten geen blijk gaven geïnteresseerd te zijn in wat ik op de baan deed. Weliswaar won ik mijn potje maar was behoorlijk afgeleid door de desinteresse van mijn teamgenoten. :-( En dat was nog ver voor het mobieltjestijdperk. ;-)
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Ron Daniels:22 december 2019Hoi Guus, ik vindt de huidige ontwikkeling zeer verontrustend en net als met alle dingen die met onze sport temaken hebben wil ik me er in verdiepen en daar wordt je niet vrolijk van. Ik heb echt uren lang onderzoeken gelezen en die weer te vertalen naar wat het betekend voor onze sport, hoe meer je weet hoe erger het is vandaar dat ik dit verhaal heb geschreven. Ben altijd blij met je betrokkenheid van wat ik schrijf en hoop je snel weer eens te ontmoeten. Groeten Ron