What is Sports Commentary?
Sports commentary involves spoken analysis, explaining or describing an event or activity in sports.
Commentating is such a sweet job that helps an individual express his or herself, bringing out creativity to entertain, describe memorable moments, harness emotions, and make sports worth watching.
Key Skills of a Sports Commentator
To be a sports commentator, there are critical skills one must have, they include:
Habitual reading of articles: The secret to becoming the best in your reading, speaking, and listening abilities, is by having a constant reading of different articles. The more you learn, the more you grow far beyond your equals; and by doing so, you are staying above your game. Once this becomes a constant habit/ritual, new skills settle in and describing situations and events will be as simple as ABC.
Getting a Mentor: Another way to become a good commentator is by connecting to a renowned sports commentator. There are many ways to connect to one. A simple research methodology using google or social media networking will be highly rewarding. One can first go to a phone browser and check for the best sports commentator (according to niche). Once found, the next thing to do is to connect through different social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and any other platform), and lastly begin communicating to learn from the mentor’s experiences from his or her little days of beginning to the present moment of Commentating.
Storytelling that engages the audience: The ability to tell stories that will make the ear itch for more, raise emotions, keep the audience in suspense, and make them want more is very vital when it comes to sports commentary. Not a moment of action will want to be missed by any listener when the commentator’s storytelling ability is so dynamite.
Excellent Communication Skills (Oral & Written): Communication is very important in our day to day lives. For a person to be able to communicate effectively, he or she must learn far beyond the normal. Top-notch and deep understanding of the language in which the target audience understands, using accurate words in the language of communication to describe the moment is inevitable. Dictions and tones must be accurate to effectively communicate.
Bilingualism: Another important skill to have is bilingualism or multilingualism. A commentator can function in different locations in the world. This can help a commentator speak two or more languages and it could be an edge over others.
Using the Right Tones: Engaging words makes commentary enjoyable. It is expected to use melancholic, empathetic, exuberant, reflective, critical, inspirational, ominous, formal, informal and serious tones at strategic moments of the game. By doing these, commentary brings out the beauty of sports.
Education and Certifications: Being educated is very important as one who wants to have diverse eye openings in a career path will be exposed to learning and opportunities. Having a degree in courses like Broadcasting and Media Production, Sports Journalism, Mass Communication, Public Relation, and Digital Marketing, will be highly rewarding.
Additional certifications to show further and extra efforts is also a plus.
The pathway to becoming a world class sports commentator is widely open to every prospect. Definitely, the rate at which one can achieve dreams is limitless.
Make the bold steps, explore, enjoy, and soar in your career!
