Using Principal Component Analysis to Study Tennis Shot Anticipation
What visual information underpins complex sporting acts such as the anticipation of tennis forehand stroke direction? Previous attempts to identify the dynamic information have relied... Read More
Middle school teachers’ perceptions of environmental constraints for inclusion of overweight students into physical education
Using a theoretical framework of social ecological constraints theory, the purpose of the study was to assess teachers’ perceptions of environmental constraints that influence the... Read More
Emergent decision making: implications for coach education
Coach Education in Australia has been administered and delivered according to a bureaucratically controlled hierarchical arrangement. A conventional feature of this hierarchical arrangement is the... Read More
Dance surrounded on all sides by the sea the pedegogical and social role of azorean folklore
The folklore, in Azorean islands, represents one of the main and most widely enjoyed cultural manifestations of the archipelago and the groups, in reality, serve... Read More
Conceptualising sociocultural orientations in physical education including post-critical possibilities
21st century shifts in conceptualisations of knowledge and learning present new opportunities and challenges to the way in which physical education (PE) is conceptualised. As... Read More
Performance analysis to improve sport performance
The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the player or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and... Read More
Comparison of laboratory and on-court testing of aerobic fitness in tennis players
The modern game of tennis is characterised by 200-600 explosive efforts, over a period that may last up to 6hours (Richers, 1995), utilising specific movement... Read More
Ing perturbations in elite men’s squash to generate performance profiles.
Dynamical system theory was developed from physical principles of pattern formation to explain how order emerges in open systems without regulation being imposed by some... Read More