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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Australian Rules Football"”.
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Australian rules football and distributive justice
Australian Rules football captures the public imagination like no other sport in the country, commanding an almost religious following and monopolising the media. A number of economic and social goods are produced, especially by or through the Australian Football League. Australian football has …
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Performance attributes of talented schoolboy Australian Rules Football players
… and performance of a group of talented young Australian Rules football players. The study group consisted of 50 of the best identified schoolboy 15 year old Australian Rules football players in Western Australia. From this group 25 boys were selected to represent Western Australia at the …
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Imagery rehearsal self-efficacy and the performance of Australian rules football skills
… program on kick passing to ten Austrahan Football League (AFL) players over half a competitive season.
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Social mobility, Australian rules football and the Aboriginal athlete: a contemporary perspective
Aboriginal Australians clearly occupy a marginal position within the class structure of Australian society. They experience discrimination in all public forums and have differential access to health care and education. As such, it appears that Aborigines are disadvantaged in relation to …
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A new way of using accelerometers in Australian rules football: assessing external loads
… (Player load) for measuring the external load of Australian football. Study one established the reliability of a triaxial accelerometer (MinimaxX 2.5) in a laboratory and sports-specific field setting... Study two assessed concurrent validity by measuring relationships between Player load and …
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The effect of fatigue from Australian Rules Football on postural control in the lower limb
… to test the effect of fatigue due to a game of Australian Rules football has on postural control, and therefore the relevance of previous research to a sporting environment. The method of analysis was a uni-lateral standing balance test. The frequency of toe touches and therefore loss of balance …
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The relationship between hip internal rotation and groin pain in elite Australian Rules Football players
… of internal hip rotation to groin pain in Australian Rules Football players. 101 subjects were tested using a plurimeter placed on the lateral aspect of the tibia whilst lying prone on a plinth. Subjects were tested twice at an interval of six weeks and episodes of groin pain that occurred …
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Kinematics of drop punt kicking in Australian rules football - comparison of skilled and less skilled kicking
The types of kick that are performed in the football codes fall into two broad categories: punt kick and place kick. One type of punt kick is the major means of ball movement in Australian Rules football – the drop punt kick. Past studies have investigated the biomechanics of kicking. The pattern …
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Pilot study into knowledge and confidence of sports trainers in community level Australian rules football leagues
Australian Rules football (ARF) is a common team sport played in Australia. Injury rates from ARF are higher than most sport and recreational activities in Australia, with substantial cost to the community from injuries. The aim of this research was to investigate if community level ARF sports …
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Hard sell: Australian football in Sydney
Australian Rules football is the nation's most popular spectator sport. Few sporting activities can match the fanaticism, emotion and passion that the game generates. In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, Australian Rules football plays a large part in the livelihood of …
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The effects of balance training on dynamic balance capabilities in the elite Australian rules footballer
… leg is a major requirement for many skills in Australian Rules football. At present there is no other research evaluating dynamic single leg balance ability of an elite AFL team over an entire football season. Therefore this study investigated changes in dynamic single leg balance capabilities …
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‘Our champion and gentleman’ : Dick Reynolds and the Essendon Football Club, 1933-1951
Dick Reynolds was one of Australian Rules football’s finest ever contributors, yet he has rarely featured in the corpus of literature on the history of the game. At the height of his fame he was compared with Australia’s finest sportsman of the era, Don Bradman, and he also drew comparisons with …
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Role transitions of elite Australian rules footballers
… to examine the role transitions of 48 elite Australian Rules Football Players. All footballers had played senior football for one of the 15 AFL clubs. Using in-depth interviews 18 players who had voluntarily retired, 15 players who had retired due to injury, and 15 players who had been …
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In from the cold : Tom Wills – a nineteenth century sporting hero
Tom Wills was the most important Australian sportsman of the mid-nineteenth century, but it is only in the first decade of the twenty-first century that he has grown in profile as a figure of cultural significance. Although Tom Wills is best recalled as the most important figure in early Australian …
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Characteristics of scoring instances during the 2016 Australian Football League Home and Away Season
… abundance of sports-science related research on Australian Rules football (ARF). However, there is a paucity of research examining the factors contributing to instances of scoring (accurate scores [a ‘goal’; 6 points] and near misses [a ‘behind’; 1 point]) and the characteristics of those …
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The impact of leisure-sport facility design on customer satisfaction
… base when compared to team-based sports like Australian Rules football or cricket. The Structural Equation Model of this study is based on the disconfirmation of expectations paradigm that was initially proposed by Oliver ( 1980) and later adapted for use in consumer quality perception and …
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Non-Invasive and Invasive Assessment of Carbohydrate Intakes and Muscle Glycogen Utilisation in Rugby League and AFL
… CHO intakes of 44 elite professional male Australian Rules Football (AFL) players were quantified across the weekly micro-cycle in Study 4 (Chapter 6). These data demonstrate that elite AFL players practice elements of daily CHO periodisation in accordance with fluctuations in daily …
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Development, assessment and application of a novel algorithm to automatically detect change of direction movement and quantify its associated mechanical load in elite Australian Football
… is critical to team-sport performance, including Australian football (AF), where a player’s capacity to rapidly decelerate, move laterally and re-accelerate is critical when evading opponents, tackling, or reacting to the unpredictable bounce of the ball or movement of another player. The …