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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"GV561 Sports"”.
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AND VS OR: APPRENTICE FOOTBALLERS' UNDERSTANDING OF IDENTITY AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
This thesis is concerned with apprentice footballers’ understanding of identity and Personal Development (PD). For those young footballers offered apprenticeships with professional football clubs aged 16, by the age of 21, five out of every six will be out of the game professionally (Professional …
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Critical transition phases within top-level female football players in Europe
Women’s football has gained in popularity over the last fifteen years and research into this area has developed. (Lopez, 1997; Scraton, Fasting, Pfister, & Bunuel, 1999; Williams, 2003, 2007, 2011; Fasting, 2004; Brus and Trangbaek, 2004; Pfister, 2006; Cauldwell, 2011). This research study has …
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The development of movement effectiveness in children : a qualitative analysis
Qualitative biomechanical analysis of movement effectiveness can be proposed as an innovative approach to oversee motor skill development in boys and girls of school age, since it permits an appreciation of how effective the movement is in attaining the performance criterion. Analysis of movement …
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Skill in sport : the role of action-effect representations
Five experiments were conducted to examine the role of ball trajectory information in the planning, execution, and evaluation of a complex motor skill as a function of skill. This sensory information source could either be predicted to become either more (Koch et al., 2004) or less (Schmidt, 1975) …
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‘Talent’ Mentalities: Young People’s Experience of Being in a Sports Talent Development Programme
… the same school and were all members of a Sports National Governing Body Talent Development Programme. Over twelve months each participant utilised their individual preference to communicate depictions of self, drawing upon interview, conversation, Twitter, video, photo and observation of …
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An investigation into physical activity and classroom behaviours in children with intellectual disabilities.
In typically developing children, research indicates that physical activity has positive influences not only on health but also academic attainment and classroom behaviour. Children with intellectual disabilities appear to exhibit less activity levels than their peers without disability. Coronary …
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Styles of Play in Elite Soccer: Identification and Definition of the Attacking and Defensive Styles of Play in the English Premier League and the 1st Spanish League
Deciding on effective team strategies and tactics is fundamental to successful performance in soccer (Carling et al., 2005). Previous studies have addressed the influence of the styles of play when measuring technical and tactical aspects in soccer (Bradley et al., 2011; Duarte, Araujo, Correia, & …
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The paradox of English sport development policy and practice: Examining the mass participation agenda during an era of austerity and continued change.
This PhD by published work critically synthesises eight papers using a meta-ethnographic methodology in the field of community sport development. In particular, it provides an overarching critical analysis of mass participation sport development policy and practice in England using research with …
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Identity in Elite Youth Professional Football
The concepts of Athletic Identity (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder,1993) and identity (Erikson, 1950, 1968) both carry notions of having a clear sense of self definition. Applied practitioners in elite professional football settings (e.g. Holt & Dunn, 2004; Harwood, 2008; Nesti & Littlewood, 2010; …
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Pattern Recognition and Anticipation Expertise in Soccer
The aim of the current programme of research was to gain a greater appreciation of the nature of information underpinning skilled pattern-recognition, and anticipation in the game of soccer. In Chapter 2, three experiments were undertaken to identify the specific information sources used to make …
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The use of GPS technology to quantify the game demands of elite youth soccer: implications for training design.
… (GPS) have been developed for use within a sports context to measure distance and velocity, however the methods employed for determining accurate capture conditions has not been examined and rely solely on historical criteria established before its use in dynamic sports such as soccer. The …
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The predictive utility of the theory of planned behaviour for physical activity in a Malaysian population: A mixed methods approach
Participation in physical activity is a key component of a healthy lifestyle. The objectives of this dissertation were to test the utility of predicting physical activity behaviour of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as well as self-efficacy using a specifically devised questionnaire for a …
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Examining Organisational Culture Change in a UK Talent Development Programme
Team GB is an international powerhouse in Olympic sports and has become ‘much admired around the world for sporting success and the system that exists beneath it’ (Grey-Thompson, 2017, p. 4). However, big budgets are levelling the playing field in the Global Sporting Arms Race (cf. De Bosscher, …
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THE USE OF THINK ALOUD METHOD TO INVESTIGATE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES OF WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS JUDGES
Decision-making of officials in aesthetic sports and more specifically in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) has received some attention within the sport psychology literature. However, research conducted has mainly utilised post-competition scores and has adapted retrospective methods of data …
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