The primary purpose of the present study was to identify motivational profiles of adolescent athletes using cluster analysis in non-Western culture. A second purpose was to examine relationships between physical self-perception differences of adolescent athletes and motivational profiles. One hundred and thirty six male (Mage = 17.46, SD = 1.25 years) and 80 female adolescent athletes (Mage = 1...

OBJECTIVE Wrestling is a popular sport in the United States at both the high school and collegiate levels. Traditionally a men's sport, participation by female athletes in wrestling is increasing. There exists a paucity of literature regarding injury incidence in women's wrestling. This lack of information challenges the ability of sports medicine and strength training professionals to design o...

Basketball players are in the fast fierce competition for control ball and scoring process, because of the influence of internal and external factors and the rapid movement of the players on the limited site, sports damage is inevitable. This article will be through the literature method, questionnaire survey, data statistical analysis and logical analysis to find out the factors that affect th...

We present evidence, based on play-by-play data from all 6087 games from the 2006/07– 2009/10 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), that basketball scoring is well described by a continuous-time anti-persistent random walk. The time intervals between successive scoring events follow an exponential distribution, with essentially no memory between different scoring intervals. By i...

Youth Physical Activity promotion has been identified as a global health priority by the World Health Organization. School is one of places where it possible to literate youth about active and healthy life. Education classes are cornerstone promote daily physical activity, but most these don’t meet recommendations spending at least 50% time in moderate-to-vigorous activity. Sports such volleyba...

Currently in the literature, there is a dearth of empirical research that confirms whether international junior success is a reliable predictor for future international senior success. Despite the uncertainty of the junior-senior relationship, federations and coaches still tend to use junior success as a predictor for long-term senior success. A range of former investigations utilising a retros...

impulsivity features of individuals affect their movement patterns when learning sports skills. therefore, this study examined the effect of different levels of motor impulsivity on learning basketball basic skills. 3 groups of boys aged between 10 and 12 who were selected according to motor impulsivity levels participated in a basketball skills training course along with a control group (the s...

T he Olympics are upon us, and we sports fans can't wait for the nonstop television diet of sports molded from the classic Greek tradition, like wrestling and track, and of others added to the occasion, like rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and even baseball. Political pressure in support of a primarily national sport can put it on the list, just as can the appeal of the sport itself...

Home advantage is a well-documented phenomenon in many sports. Home advantage has been shown to exist for team sports (soccer, hockey, football, baseball, basketball) and for countries organizing sports tournaments like the Olympics and World Cup Soccer. There is also some evidence for home advantage in some individual sports, but there is a much more limited literature. This paper addresses th...