The research aims at revealing the comparison between the effect of two ways of the direct and indirect mental training in developing some basic skills in volleyball . The researchers followed the empirical way in their wark

The research aims at revealing the comparison between the effect of two ways of the direct and indirect mental training in developing some basic skills in volleyball . The researchers followed the empirical way in their wark. The data of the research is a group of 16 students of the fourth year (specialized in volleyball ) in the College of Sports Education. University of Mosul . the students have been distributed into two equal empirical groups as 8 students per group, There was equivalence between the two groups in the variables of (the age, light, body mass, cleverness, the attention appearance, sport mental illustration and some elements of physical and movement fitnes that effect in learning the basic skills in volleyball as well as some basic skills in volleyball . The personal meeting and the tests and measurements have been used as means to collect information. Two learning programs for volleyball have been suggested, the first includes a learning program of the determined schedule for the students of the fourth year to which the direct mental training was, the second is the same as the first with the addition of the indirect mental training. Each program consists of 24 learning units adopted during 12 weeks as two unites per week; the duration of each unit is 90 minutes. The researchers applied the following statistical means: (The arithmetic mean, standard deviation and T- test of unrelated mean and T- test related means , to deal with the data. ) The research concluded to these two results: 1. The direct and indirect mental training ways which have been adopted within the two learning programs, have a positive effect in developing some basic skills in volleyball. 2. The first empirical group, which carried out the direct mental training, seemed equal to the second empirical group, which carried out the way of the indirect mental training in the post –test used in developing some basic skills in volleyball