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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"action sports"”.
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Action Sports in Transition: Optimizing Performance
… levels while transitioning into Olympic sports. This thesis investigates the nature and impact of this transition, with a focus on athlete performance and coaching. A general overview of the sport from a biopsychosocial perspective is followed by a more specific investigation into skill …
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Governance strategies towards organising for action sports: A national structure for New Zealand skateboarding
… between the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports and International Skateboarding Federation). However, in many countries, including New Zealand (NZ), skateboarding was largely an informal activity, ungoverned and lacking structure, and with some resistance to Olympic inclusion. This …
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Relationship Between Health And Sports Participation in Young Adults
… health and their participation in traditional sports and action sports. Research indicates that traditional sports promote wellness and provide participants with benefits in physical health, psychological wellness, and social skills (Taks & Scheerder, 2006). Action sports are sports activities …
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On Board for Brands: Understanding the Motivating Influences of Sponsored Female Snowboarders
… sponsorship agreements, particularly within action sports. In so doing, the work addressed a number of important limitations of the extant research. Whereas previous studies have primarily concentrated on male athletes or the benefits for sponsors, this study investigated the motivations and …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
… politics in the United States of America (US). Action sports scholars have long identified the ‘whiteness’ of this sport but rarely created space for the voices of people of colour (POC) within skateboarding. Underpinned by Critical Race Theory (CRT), this project centralizes the previously …
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Making the jump: Examining the glocalisation of parkour in Aotearoa New Zealand
Once a niche physical pastime of a small group of men in the urban suburbs of France, parkour is now a global phenomenon. Parkour provides an ideal context to investigate contemporary youth, and adoptees of this primarily youthful culture, and their increasingly connected experiences. Using a …
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Carving the Line: A Critical Examination of Women Athletes’ Experiences of Maltreatment in Freestyle Skiing
The purpose of this feminist narrative study was to understand the experiences of Canadian women athletes in freestyle skiing to uncover potential aspects of maltreatment in sport. Guided by Bronfenbrenner’s (1979, 1986, 1999) ecological systems theory, this research examined individual, social, …