Abstract
The symptom of fear appears very often during motor skill acquiring. Its manifestation depends on the characteristic traits of each sport discipline.
In the gymnastic discipline vault – namely on the beginners‘ level – the fear represents a great barier on the road to the success in practice in physical education. The main reason is the absence of experience with this discipline in the school years.
According to our research only 50 % of the female participants got acquainted during their school years with this discipline and 60 % of the participants show mental instability embodied in thinking over its realisation, either before trying the vault as well as during its execution. This fact increases the injury risk in this gymnastic discipline.