Abstract
The purpose of this study is to be critical consideration of “the inner game theory” advocated by W. T. Gallwey and to be of help toward teaching methods from now.
The inner game theory focused on the inside of sport participant and introduced the ways of Oriental meditation into the one of concentration in sport. Three problems from his theory were selected. That is, (1) exclusion of affection, (2) automatical moving potential, and (3) ways of concentration. These were examined from points of Neurophysiology, Sport Psychology, Neuropsychology, Bewegungslehre, Yoga, Buddism and so on.
The present author concluded as follows:
As the exclusion of affection needs the control of the autonomic nervous system, it is possible that the ways of Oriental meditation are available. But it is doubt that his ways of concentration are effective certainly so that the common ways of the active meditation repeat fixed actions. Though his theory leaves room for doubt, he gives us the important suggestion which fuses between modern Western and Oriental ideas.
