The scientific problem is that the question if an attitude of the representatives of individual (double-event) and team-sports towards their trainer differs is not still answered unambiguously. Research objective – to analyse an athlete’s attitude towards a trainer. The following tasks were raised for achieving of the objective: 1) to analyse athletes’ attitude towards the trainer’s behaviour and communication; 2) to rate maturity of the trainer’s personality from the point of view of the athletes; 3) to analyse attitude towards the trainer according to its influence on the athletes’ inspiration. Research hypothesis: attitude of the team-sport athletes towards the trainer is statistically reliably more favourable than the one of individual-sport athletes. Questionnaires were given to the research subjects, assigned for rating of the trainer’s communication, attentiveness, criticism, praises, assistance, his maturity and influence on the athletes’ inspiration. A method of mathematical statistics was applied for processing of the research results: criterion χ2. In order to determine athlete’s attitude towards trainer, a research was carried out in 2004. 13 pupils from A.Sabonis Basketball School (15-16 years old); 14 pupils from Kaunas City Basketball School (17-18 years old); 15 pupils from Basketball Club “Žvaigždžių tornadas” (15-16 years old); 12 wrestlers from Lithuanian Centre of Olympic Sport (17-18 years old); 13 pupils from Visaginas wrestling club “Sparta” (15-1... [to full text]