The Ecstasy Of Playing Basketball

The challenges and skill level are also balanced in flow activities. If the challenge is above the knowledge level it can create anxiety. On the opposite end, if the challenge is too low for one’s skill set boredom often takes over. This is where the balance comes in. Flow is an opportunity for learning. Csikszentmihalyi reports that flow is often achieved when a person is participating in their favorite activities. He goes on to describe that flow can also be achieved during almost any activity as long as the elements are present.

As an individual I love staying active, socializing with others, being dependable, and keeping busy. Playing Basketball for Flour Bluff ISD, since the seventh grade, has granted me the opportunity to achieve all of these goals. For some peculiar reason I have consistently felt that I lacked experience of which my peers had, and that I would never be able to acquire it. Soon after I started playing I became intimidated of my fellow teammates and worried about the time I felt I lost, due to beginning so late in my childhood. Without fail, I always feel a sense of accomplishment after making it through tryouts every year and as I approach my final season, it has become clear just how much of my life was devoted to Basketball, that I truly love it and how I am thankful to be a part of something much more than just a team.

I tried to play basketball, and i was really bad at playing because i had played softball all of my life i have never played anything else other than softball. My Dad tried to help me practise basketball but he didn’t know how to play either because he only played baseball. I was not any good at it, and i hated it because it was so hard to play and every time my coach would yell at me i didn’t know why because he never explained to me what i was doing wrong. I did want to give up because i hated it and i could not play at all and our team never won a game. I will try knew things out in the future and i hope that i will succeed in what i want to do because i am a person who sets their mind to things and gets them done even if it takes me my

The thrill of playing in the basketball championship game can not be put into words.

Can i tell you why Nba is cool.I would like to make it to the nba.Because I want to be famous and I want to be rich.

Flow experiences are what happen when we are able to do our favorite activities or desired things, and flow tends to occur when a person is faced with a goal. Another characteristic of flow activities is that they provide immediate feedback. After every decision you will be able to tell whether or not it was positive or negative for yourself.

One of my worlds is basketball. Basketball means a lot to me. This physical sport not only keeps me healthy and fit, but also adds great joy and brings the world of competition that I never knew before to me. For example, when I run back and forth across the court, I get the sixty minutes of exercise a day I need without realizing it. But, most importantly, while I'm playing this extra-curricular sport, a feeling comes to me that I've never known before; the feeling of competition. When I shoot a shot, it matters a lot to me if I make it or not. I actually make an attempt to winning the game, which I don't usually try. My world of basketball really changes my life and adds much to my life experiences, and whomever I play with, the game improves my connection with them.

The Game is played by two teams who alternate between offense and defense. Their objective is to score more runs than the opponent. There are nine players on each side and the game usually consist of nine innings. The defense wears leather baseball gloves to catch the ball and the offense uses a bat to hit the ball. The game is played on the field, including the infield and the outfield.

In chapter three, the main things it talks about are flow and savoring. These topics are very interesting, and anyone can relate to them. Having a flow experience is something you enjoy doing without it being boring and making time go by slow. Savoring is an enjoyment that have a positive outlook on your life. You attend to it, appreciate and enhance it. A flow experience for me would be drawing and writing. When I was an art major at Claflin, I had to take a class called Design Concept, it was an hour and fifty minutes long. It was great learning more about the arts, and exploring more art techniques and draw about it. It made the class go by fast. I sometimes stay past the limit just of the class being so fun. My other flow experience would

After Failing it should give you the drive to want to improve yourself. It should give you the motivation to want to be able to succeed in that goal you failed at once before. Basketball doesn't define you, the skills in the interest you have do. Basketball is just a small chapter in your life, yes, it helps you identify what your weaknesses are and strengths. It gives you a lifetime of friends because you spend so much time with your team.

Growing up I have struggled with accepting that failure is okay due to having the desire to feel accomplished in anything I attempted. When I was not able to carry out what I intended, I felt the need to give up. Experiences such as these have consistently occurred in my life and taught me about resilience and perseverance. The reason resiliency is an important value to me is that whenever hardships have struck me, they have taught me to be more buoyant and keep persisting through. When I first began playing soccer, I wasn’t able to play as well as others. This ultimately led me to feel inferior to my teammates, and lose passion in the sport. Rather than being rational about the situation, I would blame my inability to perform on my teammates

When it comes to experiencing a flow sensation, I’m not one who can easily achieve it. While flow can be considered as a state on intense focus, I have been known to be easily distracted and lack any motivation to maintain focus for most tasks. I do, however, find myself experiencing flow when I’m drawing or animating. Now it need to be said that not all my art sessions would lead to flow experiences. If the challenge of the task at hand is lower to my level of skill, I succumb to boredom and prolong all attempts to continue my work on it. However, when the challenge level is the same as my skill level, I tend to be incredibly immerse by it and able to maintain that focus. The biggest characters of flow that I notice is a shift in my experience

This letter is talking about what I learned from your book, my flow experiences and what are elements of flow in my opinion. But before that I would like to share a old Chinese fairy tale with you. 1800 years ago in Jin dynasty of China, there was a farmer who’s name is Wangzhi. One day he went out to cut firewood in hills, he saw there are an old man and a child playing the GO (a Chinese game) in pavilion. So he left his axe on a stump and watched them playing. He was so focus on the game that he totally forgot the time. After a long time, the child told him that as it is so late you had better go home. Then Wangzhi pick up his axe and start to go home. He was so surprised that his axe handle was rotted and mold. When he backed home his neighbor told him he had already went out more than 10 years. Of cause fairy tales are not always true story and also may sound like an exaggeration. But in this fairy tale we can know that Chinese people realize that people have flow experience hundreds years ago.

I never had really thought of playing basketball. I thought it was a cool sport and looked fun, but i never considered playing it outside of school. That is until my friends Alex, Ryan, and Freddy brought it up the idea. It sounded like a good plan to all of us because none us had really played basketball aside from school gym class and it gave us something to do (because what else is there to do in the winter?) so we all said “why not?” and gave it a shot.

A flow does exhibit a certain sensation that can be represented in a holistic manner of which the people might feel it and do actions from its overall and complete participation and involvement (Csikszentmihalyi and Csikszentmihalyi, 1988). Thus Hoffman and Novak (1996) have described and defined the term ‘flow’ as one of the state that has been characterized by means of seamless response in a sequential base that is practically facilitated by means of a machine interaction and engagement. There is also a characteristic that deals to a certain intrinsic enjoyment along with the self-conscious loss in addition to the reinforcement of oneself. A certain flow does reflect a particular poise and balance among the skills and the challenges experienced by certain users as pointed by (Hoffman and Novak, 2009)Thus, when a certain skill does exceed a challenge or a test, the users can become bored instantly. Thus, in opposition, when a particular challenge does exceed a skill, the users feel become more anxious due to the fact that both the skill and the challenge can ideally be lower than that of threshold values of which the users will ideally feel a sense of indifference.