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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Australian football"”.
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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 Australian Football League and the closet
… from the ranksof the professional players in the Australian Football League (AFL). It seeks to explain this absence in the context of the modern gay rights movement. incontemporary Australian society. It compares and contrasts the effects of thismovement on both the AFL and other mainstream …
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Physiological assessment in talent identification within Australian football
… selection. Nevertheless, the changing nature of Australian Football (AF) has raised questions over the specificity of currently used field test protocols. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to validate newly designed physiological field tests specific to AF, measuring its discriminatory …
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Print media representation of crisis events in Australian football
… studies: the debate over the South Melbourne Football Club's relocation to Sydney in 1981; the Footscray Fightback campaign to save the Footscray Football Club in 1989; and the Fitzroy Football Club's merger with the Brisbane Football Club in 1996. In each instance the case study is analysed …
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The effects of water immersion on recovery in Australian football
… in a physically demanding team sport, such as Australian football (AF), can result in post-exercise physical performance decrements as well as increases in psychometric measures, muscle damage and inflammation. The use of both cold water immersion (CWI) and contrast water therapy (CWT) as a …
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Corporate governance in the Australian Football League: a critical evaluation
… and their responsibilities. This study uses the Australian Football League (AFL) as a means of exploring several themes emerging from the nonprofit literature including the increasingly deliberate recruitment of volunteer boards and the desire for corporate expertise. This study examines the …
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'There's the siren! aurality and respresentation of the sounds of (Australian) football
… studies is to consider the aurality of (Australian) football: the sounds that are heard and produced by those who play (considering all participants to be players). In so doing it addresses problems that arise when sound is approached as the object of understanding, and experiments with …
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Organizational Culture and Identity: A Case Study from the Australian Football League
… organizational culture and identity of Fremantle Football Club, a professional sporting organization that competes in an elite national football competition, the Australian Football League. The thesis began with a review of the contemporary literature on the principal topic, organizational culture …
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An examination of kinanthropometric and physical injury risk factors in elite Australian football
… in elite-level professional female and male Australian Football players. An introduction (Chapter 1), critical review of the literature (Chapter 2) and four sequential scientific investigations (Chapters 3-6) are presented. The review of the literature identified essential knowledge gaps …
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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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How different constraints in the practice environment influence skill behaviours in professional Australian football
Australian football (AF) is a dynamic and complex team evasion sport, which demands high levels of team and individual skilfulness. From an ecological dynamics perspective, AF performance is a complex system characterised by dynamic interactions between the players and the environment. These …
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A kinanthropometric analysis of accurate and inaccurate kickers: Implications for kicking accuracy in Australian football
… profiles of accurate and inaccurate kickers in Australian Football using a series of research studies. In particular, studies one and two established valid and reliable measurement protocols, while studies three, four and five quantified whole-body composition, anthropometrics, segmental masses …
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Recovering from repeat sprint activity and elite Australian football training and competition: do compression garments help?
… trained individuals (Chapter 4); following elite Australian football (AF)training (Chapter 5) and competition (Chapter 6). It also included a comparison between a sports (Spo) and medical (Med) style compression garment. A magnitude based effects approach, using effect sizes and the smallest …
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The relationship between training load and incidence of injury and illness over a pre-season at an Australian Football League Club
… and illness over an entire pre-season at an Australian Football League (AFL) club. Sixteen players were subjects; all full time professional male AFL players (mean + or - standard deviation; age 23.8 + or - 5.1 years; height 188.9 + or - 7.4 m; weight 90.9 + or - 9.2 kg). A longitudinal …
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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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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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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 …
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Decision making in sport : applying the above real time training method
… video speed on different levels of expertise in Australian football, particularly, the mechanisms which drive expert performance. The significant difference in performance between elite and sub-elite at the 1.5 speed indicated this to be a potential training speed for elite athletes.
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Examining reasons for participation in sport and exercise using the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS)
… different forms of physical activity namely, Australian Football League (AFL), gym-based exercise, tae kwon do, tennis, and yoga. Results indicate that the PALMS has a robust factor structure (CMIN/DF = 2.22; NFI = 0.95; CFI = 0.97; RMSEA = 0.078). The PALMS also demonstrated good internal …
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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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