The following article focuses on the various techniques of mental training, in order to better understand athletes'capability of using it in a systematic way and whether mental training is really useful to improve athlete's performance. In particular, it highlights what is meant by mentally visualizing a movement and thus the various steps that athletes experience in their mind. It will be reported the use of mental training techniques in fighting sports referring in particular to boxing. Since the topic of mental concentration is of basic importance for every single athlete who practices a competitive sport. The Authors report an interview to the professional boxer Paolo Vidoz. The former European champion explains especiallu how the self-talk technique - among the others - has been particularly useful in order to increase his concentration during the matches.

The aim of this study is to underline a big trouble of the soccer player: the accident. The soccer is a " sport of situation" structured in a non mechanical way, with unintentional actions: the technical abilities must be accurate for a different and creative tacticism and the abilities of coordination are fundamental (matching, ability of dynamic and spatio - temporal differentiation, equilibrium, reaction time, anticipation and transformation of the movement). For an athlete , the competition emphasizes its physical and psychological investments, with an high social and economic resonance.

Objectives: Dance teach to communicate and to speak out our thoughts and our sensations in a unique way . So the dance has a significant role in the educational field. When we are in agreement with ourselves m we have the opportunity to keep in relation our school experience with our daily ones.
Methods: The Authors have chosen two groups of students, one of work and one of control, through the help of the headmaster of Istituto Comprensivo of Castelfidardo (Ancona,Italy).
The first group was that linked to the first class of "Cialdini" school, with 24 pupils, while the second was that linked to the first class of "Dalla Chiesa" institute m with 18 pupils.
Motors and relational tests were given to the both of the groups (in different periods : at the beginning, at half and in the end).
Moreover some questions pf pleasure of the dance activities were put to the work group.
Results: The results show a lot of agreements in the work group, both in the motor area and in the relational one. The relation created in he different months with the work group shows the characteristics of stability, happiness and empathy. But there were also sporadic episodes of aggressiveness.
Conclusions: The purpose pursued with this work is the reaching of motor coordination which is a fundamental objective in the educational dance, linked to the relational factor.
The Authors can notice how the friendship and a good climate of collaboration can favour the improvement of the objective.