Abstract
While ensuring safety is extremely important in sports education, many fatal and disabling accidents have occurred during sports. Our previous study suggested that repetition increases the risk of sports accidents even in proficient students during the diving start of swimming, one of the most dangerous movements in sports. In this paper, we tried to elucidate the mental state, the training situation, and the words of instruction to undermine students’ safety, focusing on the diving start of swimming. We performed a questionnaire survey for high school students participating in a swimming competition. The result demonstrated that the decrease of students’ concentration is not a main factor to increase the risk, and the mental state to achieve the movement quickly, to explore more good techniques, and fatigue make students perform dangerous movements. Sports teachers should control these mental states by several words or ways of teaching when practicing dangerous movements.
