BACKGROUND A high level of participant skill is influential in determining the outcome of many sports. Thus, tests assessing skill outcomes in sport are commonly used by coaches and researchers to estimate an athlete's ability level, to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions or for the purpose of talent identification. OBJECTIVE The objective of this systematic review was to examine the ...

Youth sport coaches play an important role in shaping the experience and positive development of youth athletes. One salient approach to examining how interpersonal behaviours influence young athletes has been through lens leadership theories. However, there is limited understanding surrounding underlying processes associated with coach behaviours, such as why are applied. This study sought exa...

Many sport scientists are starting to apply the tools and concepts of non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, chaos theory, and thermodynamics to analysis of sport behavior. One aim of this meeting was to encourage and promote such applications. Four main themes recurred throughout the conference: nonlinear dynamics of individual movement coordination (self-organization and metastability...

The study aimed to develop an understanding of female coaches’ and sport science practitioners’ experience support provision in relation the menstrual cycle when working with athletes. Following receipt institutional ethical approval, 14 coaches practitioners (32.9 ± 6.9 years) participated individual semi-structured interviews. analysis, two themes were developed: (1) Knowledge awareness (2) S...

Ice hockey is a fast-paced sport played by increasing numbers of children and adolescents in North America and around the world. Requiring a unique blend of skill, finesse, power and teamwork, ice hockey can become a lifelong recreational activity. Despite the rising popularity of the sport, there is ongoing concern about the high frequency of musculoskeletal injury associated with participatio...

Background: Baseball is a team sport that has a total of nine main players and includes explosive, endurance, and strength movements that can cause multiple injuries over a season due to repetitive movements, long training, and competition. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of shoulder and elbow injuries in Iranian Premier League baseball players. Methods: 79...

The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of the administration of external feedback (FB) on the time used to execute the gate start skill in BMX cycling discipline. The sample used was n = 6 riders from the Spanish national team (19.3 ± 2.1 years). An intragroup experimental design with repeated measures was used to compare the evolution of the skill developed by the participant...