1998 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 49-56
For kendo players, it is common to go through a traditional training session called Kangeiko. Kangeiko is described as a training session carried out at winter time in early morning when the environmental temperature is low. The session has been accepted as effective in cultivating strong will of the individual players who participated. The purpose of this study was to examine whether psychological competitive ability of kendo players is improved after Kangeiko, or not. We assessed the psychological competitive ability of twenty-eight college kendo players (22 males and 6 females) who underwent a traditional Kangeiko training session using Diagnostic Inventory of the Psychological-Competitive Ability for athletes (DIPCA. 2) before and after the Kangeiko. As the result, we could not observe significant changes in the most of scores of DIPCA. 2 between before and after the Kangeiko. The traditional Kangeiko training session might influence other mental factors of kendo players, although it did not improve their psychological competitive ability evaluated by DIPCA. 2.
