Excel in Sports Through Advanced DMIT Analysis

Dr P Madhurima Reddy

CEO & FOUNDER - La Winspire International Training & Solutions LLP

Peak Performance international Trainer, Life & Business Coach, Psychologist

NLP Master Practitioner Licensed (UK), Advanced DMIT Consultant.

Abstract

Dermatoglyphics refer to the branch of science which constitutes the study of the patterns i.e. prints of skin (dermal ridges) on the fingers, toes and the soles of human beings. Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test is a biometric assessment of the individual’s finger print to map his/her brain functioning.

History of DMIT: In 1926, Harold Cummins proposed the term ‘Dermatoglyphics’ for the study of finger prints at the American Morphological Society. After this, Noel Jaquin researched and proposed that each fingerprint pattern corresponds to a specific type of personality. Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test (DMIT) came into being when the idea of Dermatoglyphics was combined with the theory of Multiple Intelligence. Multiple Intelligence was theorized by development psychologist Howard Gardner in the year 1983 in his book “Frames of Mind”: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence.

Conventional career counseling, on the other hand takes aid of standardized Psychometric test in order to identify individual’s intelligence, intelligence, aptitude and personality. The factors are then carefully analyzed and a summary of most suitable careers is drawn for the individual, keeping in mind his/her identified attributes.

Career counseling process tests an individual on three different parameters.

Intelligence: Which informs about the overall cognitive capacity of an individual to understand instructions and adapt to the environment.

Aptitude: This helps identify the specific area in which an individual has potential.

Interest: This is an objective and systematic method of concluding which field will be most suitable for the individual, given the activities that interest him.

Personality: Different jobs require a different personality type. Thus knowing one’s personality traits determining the career path ensures that one enjoys their work in a stress free manner.

1. talents: The term “ Talent” is already sufficiently clarified by the literature, and can be defined as the individual who, though his inherited and acquired conditions, has a special aptitude for sports performance, above the average of general population. Currently with the world sporting scene, the search for talented young athletes capable of withstanding high training loads and high rates of technical improvements is great. The parameters that involves obtaining the maximum physical performance, the improvement of results and the breaking of records, have been the objects of study of researcher’s of sports area. The selection of talents, as well as the promotion of talent in any sport, should be done by making scientific analysis, not by prospecting talents. It is believed that there are many children and adolescents deprived of genetic inheritance who is subjected to arduous training.

Conclusion: Currently there is a great deal of concern within sports research to find methodologies that measure the genetic potential of athletes. In sports dermatoglyphics is a technique used by many researchers who points it out as a way of estimating an athlete’s genetic potential. Through the study of Dermatoglyphics one can obtain not only the maximization of sports performance, but also the correct direction of effort time and money.

In this way and with the intention of glimpsing the future and adequate performance of athletes, it is verified that the initial phase must obtain the contribution of Dermatoglyphics through the obtaining of fingerprints. DMIT is, hence a so called ‘Psychometric’ tool to assess the specific intelligence and innate aptitude of an individual & their SWOT analysis.

The author will explain how this DMIT tests can be conducted and to be assessed the hidden talent of an individual.