The impact of brain imaginingon the accuracy of free throw skill in basketball

This study contains five chapters. Chapter one tackles the introduction of the study, the importance of the study; which emphasizes the brain imagining, relaxation and mind training. They influence positively and have an important role in developing basketball skills in general and the free throw skill in specific way. Thus trainers have to add it in their training units. The aim of the study tackles knowing the relation between brain imagining and free throw in basketball, and knowing the influence developing brain imagining in the accuracy of shooting in basketball. While the domains of the study contain the human domain, the player of sub-mnion of basketball in Diyala who are 20.The place domain is the playground of the physical college. And the time domain is from 2nd of dec.2004 until the 5th of mar.2005. The study also contains reviewing literature, method, and field procedures of the study, thus the training method are used for the sample chapter four contains displaying and analyzing results. Eventually, chapter five contains the conclusions such as: mind training has positive effect on learning shooting and free throw in basketball, moreover mind training increasing the possibility of success of free throw. Whereas the recommendations are: using and emphasizing mind training for the trainers and players and emphasizing brain imagining and giving some time for it in the training unit and make a strategy to train the players to reinforce skill aspect.