INTRODUCTION Handball is a high-intensity sport with frequent physical contact between players. The physical demands are characterised by intermittent sprinting. Match play involves high-speed running forwards, backwards as well as sideways, plant and cutting movements, jumps, landings, turns, and repeated acceleration and deceleration movements. Most of the play in handball involves balancing ...

Elbow problems in goalkeepers in team handball ‘‘handball goalie’s elbow’’ is common. The accepted mechanism in the common injuries is hyperextension of the elbow. The purpose of this study was to describe the elbow position at the time of impact of the ball on the hand. This study is based on video-analysis. Fifteen handball goalies (ten females and five males) who had been playing handball fo...

PURPOSE To compare the agility demands of 4 small-sided games (SSGs) and evaluate the variability in demands for elite Australian Football (AF). METHODS Fourteen male elite Australian Football League (AFL) players (mean ± SD; 21.7 ± 3.1 y, 189.6 ± 9.0 cm, 88.7 ± 10.0 kg, 39.4 ± 57.1 games) completed 4 SSGs of 3 × 45-s bouts each with modified designs. Video notational analysis, GPS at 5 Hz, a...

There is no current study that examined sport-specific tests of reactive-agility and change-of-direction-speed (CODS) to replicate real-sport environment in handball (team-handball). This investigation evaluated the reliability and validity of two novel tests designed to assess reactive-agility and CODS of handball players. Participants were female (25.14 ± 3.71 years of age; 1.77 ± 0.09 m and ...