Abstract
New esports teams are popping up all of the time and they all need a good coaching staff, including specialists. For the benefit of esports coach education, this article provides a brief summary of the conditions that must be present for learning to take place, the various teaching methods available to coaches, and best practices in guiding athlete performance. The final section shows how coaches can facilitate imagery use with athletes.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Ethical approval: Not applicable.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Why imagery use in esports?
- Articles
- Translating the applied model of deliberate imagery use to esports
- Practical assessment and application of imagery techniques in esports
- Developing imagery ability in esport athletes using layered stimulus response training
- Getting the most out of imagery: PETTLEP and ESports
- Imagery for game strategy in esports
- Using imagery to build confidence in esports
- Using imagery to build team confidence in esports
- An imagery-based intervention for managing anxiety in esports
- VR training and imagery training in esports
- Using imagined partners to enhance esports performance
- Coaches as teachers and facilitators of esports imagery use
- Imagery use in esports: future research directions and unique considerations