The Effects of Psychological Skills Training Period on Performance of Forwards Beach Soccer Players of Semnan

Nowadays, it is not possible to achieve sport success without paying attention to the psychological skills. The purpose of present study was to examine the effects of psychological skills training period on performance of forwards beach soccer players of Semnan city.

For this purpose three forward players on the team of Semnan city were selected by Convenience Sampling. The single subject design with multiple baselines across individual design was used to examine the performance of successful heading, shooting and passing. After Psychological Skills Training Period package the data of their performance was gathered and their performance was calculated by MBD index and the effect size of Cohen’s d.

In this study, the subjects achieved to the %50.66 of improvement and 3.57 size effect in exact heading and %52 improvement and 3.4 size effect of accurate shooting and also %54.46 improvement with 3.61 effect in accurate passing which indicate relative improvement statistical meaningfulness.

The result of this study showed that PST improves forwards performance of accurate heading, correct shooting and passing and consequently on sport performance of beach soccer players. Maybe increase of athlete's consciousness in their Strengths and weaknesses create these change . Therefore, it is suggested to coaches and sports psychologists to use these exercises to improve their athletics performance.