Introduction Voluntary involvement in sports coaching in local communities is widespread within Europe. In the European Commission’s (2010) Eurobarometer on sport and physical activity, 7% of respondents indicated that they gave their time to these activities. In Sweden, the rate was 18% which, together with Finland, was the highest level in the European Union. Sport is an important part of man...

Tennis champion Maria Sharapova has a habit of grunting when she plays on the court. Assume that also hitting ball in certain way situation. The on-court might be bad, but can situation classified as intelligent? fundamental questions here are follows: What is habit? relation between and skill? Is there such thing intelligent In this paper I expound nature by developing defending Rylean concept...

BACKGROUND Although children experience pain during their daily life, research has generally focused on medical pain. Sport-related pain has not been widely studied in children and research has not examined the occurrence of painful incidents in gymnastics. The prevalence of painful incidents among children in recreational gymnastics classes and accompanying coach responses were recorded. MET...

This paper tries to study the relationship between the leadership of coaches and the satisfaction of sport students at I.A.U of Kermanshah Province. More than 200 sport students and 120 coaches were chosen as sample cases and Alpha Cronbach formula were used here. SPSS 21 Amos 21 were used for analyzing the results. It also shows that there is a significant relationship between the satisfaction...

an investigation of coaches' leadership styles and their effects on athletes' behaviors and incentives can help improve coach-athlete relationship and adopt better decisions and planning. this study aimed at investigating the relationship between coaches’ leadership styles and group cohesion in first division futsal league of mazandaran province. the statistical population consisted o...

the aim of the present study was to compare the power resource ofcoaches and athletes' team cohesion from the viewpoints of male and femalecoaches and athletes in south khorasan province. the method of this studywas descriptive which was conducted as a field study. the statisticalpopulation consisted of all coaches (n=120) and athletes (n=800) in fourteam sports. based on morgan table, 92 ...

The purpose of this study was to examine coaches' preferences for continuing coaching education. The sample consisted of 122 male and 102 female coaches from the Gauteng Province of South Africa who were purposively recruited to participate in this study. The results of this study showed that the coaches wanted to learn more about motivational techniques, advanced instructional drills, advanced...

Weight Pressures in Sport—Females (WPS-F) questionnaire measures sport-related pressures that female athletes experience regarding body weight, shape, size, and appearance. In order to examine the psychometric properties of Greek version inventory, two different studies were conducted. first study, using a sample ( n = 225) aged 12–20 years, exploratory factor analysis produced factors (Factor ...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of training patterns and roles of significant others (i.e. coaches, parents, peers, and siblings) in adolescent swimmers’ sport participation patterns. Design: The developmental model of sport participation [Côté, J., Baker, J., & Abernethy, B. (2003). From play to practice: A developmental framework for the acquisition of expertise...