Sitting at their desks, the fifth grade boys and girls of theJosep Dalmau Carles Public School of Girona they waited expectantly for the arrival of Sergio Martinez i Maxi Fjellerup, from whom they first listened attentively to give a brief summary of his sporting career which now has Fontajau as its destination. The two members of Básquet Girona were chosen to participate in the first emotional health workshop ‘Emotion in Action’, a project promoted by the Girona club and FIATC, and which will continue in other schools. The psychologists of both entities brought the singing voice, theAndrea i l’Annaby FIATC, and in Pauthe Carla that day Lolafor Basketball Girona.
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And the enchanted creatures, of course. Especially, when it was their turn to go out on the basketball court, outside the classroom, where they did a series of games and activities to identify the emotions they will encounter throughout life. What do I feel when something happens to me?’, was the question. “A match makes you feel many emotions at once. There are good ones and bad ones. You also feel nerves and eagerness to compete. But as you grow up, you get comfortable navigating through it all. You learn to live with frustration, for example”, explained the Argentine Fjellerup, who, like his teammate Martínez, chose joy over other feelings. It will be for something. “I feel identified with the joy, with the happiness of playing”, he claimed. In fact, everything is simpler than it seems.
Divided into teams, the students, among other things, had to imitate the gesticulation of a specific feeling, such as fear, joy, sadness, surprise or anger, while the other groups tried to guess it They had a blast, also when there was a ball in the middle. When it went into the hands of the ACB players, the little girl asked them for help. They like the show, yes. And they celebrated every basket like it was a real game, especially when it was scored by one of their own. They launched under great cheers and whistles, so that the students knew, in a small dose, what the adults feel when they play away from Fontajau. “We are flesh and blood. We are also anxious when they write to us, and happy when we write. We don’t lose our emotions to appear on television”, said Martínez, a story that Fjellerup confirmed.
Verbalize feelings
“Emotions give us information about how the person is, and this is very important, because we have to be able to verbalize it. We don’t have to keep things to ourselves, we have to express ourselves», said Pau. “That’s why we cry when we’re sad or sometimes hit when we’re angry. What is important is to understand that, throughout life, depending on what we live, we will feel one thing or another that will be ours and that no one else will feel”, added Andrea. Gathered there, chatting animatedly, unashamedly, they conveyed an aura of exciting normality. They ended up shouting, as a basketball team does to encourage each other, ‘Emotion in Action’.
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A club with sensitivity
The joint initiative between Básquet Girona and FIATC is another example that Marc Gasol’s organization is not just a basketball club and that’s enough. Sensitive to the territory, its identity manages to link it even more to the city. “It’s a different workshop, I’ve never done it with such young children. But it makes a lot of sense, as it is important to teach them the right way to have feelings and learn to manage them. This, in the long run, will help them”, explains Martínez. Taking care of these details goes beyond winning or losing a game. “It’s a propellant, yes. Because we are not superheroes. Many people think that we are robots and that being professional gamers means that we cannot have feelings, but this is not the case. We can also be wrong. We have the right to have bad moments”, he confesses.
“It’s that we’re not talking about players here, we’re talking about people. And the sooner they are clear about what they can do to adapt to the different emotions they will experience, the better”, reasons Fjellerup, who knows that “sometimes you enter a well from which it is very complicated to get out. That’s why when we’re happy, it’s often because we’ve been through a lot of things that weren’t so pleasant. When you first suffer, then you enjoy twice as much. The secret is knowing how to channel it.”
Optimism against Andorra
Both Fjellerup and Martínez have endured as well as they could the last events of Básquet Girona, which with seven consecutive defeats suffered a change on the bench. with Fotis Katsikaris, the airs seem brand new. Full of positivity, they believe in victory in Saturday’s game against the Morabanc Andorra. “We get paid because it’s our job. It has been hard and long for us to go two months without a win, but we have kept calm. Now we have a different energy, we have a renewed head”, says Fjellerup. “The relief on the bench has allowed us to unite, feel stronger and gain more confidence. We have quality and we want to show people that we can do great things”, concludes Martínez.
2024-02-07 17:27:22
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