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The development of an athlete from basic performance to elite level of accomplishment is a long and complicated process. Identifying and nurturing talent, developing and fine tuning sport skills, and maintaining high levels of performance over the course of a career requires many thousands of hours...
To Be Published June 17th 2013 by Routledge
In the movie Bull Durham, frustrated manager Joe Riggins stresses to his team, "This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball." This simplification works well for biomechanists too, as sports can be broken down into specific physical tasks like throwing, hitting,...
To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Sports officials (umpires, referees, judges) play a vital role in every sport, and sports governing bodies, fans and players now expect officials to maintain higher professional standards than ever before. In this groundbreaking book a team of leading international sport scientists and top level...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
