Abstract Judo is a skills-led sport, which has higher requirements on the athletes’ skills, physical ability, intelligence and psychology, but characteristics are still basis of competitive ability. In this article, 107 male judo athletes were selected as investigation object, their body shape indexes some quality measured, independent sample multiple regression method T-test applied to compare...

The verbal feedback given to junior soccer players potentially heading to a professional career is essential for technical and tactical skill development. The aim of this study is to examine whether differences exist in feedback between coaches of junior elite soccer teams and coaches of junior amateur soccer teams. The coaches of a junior elite soccer team and a junior amateur soccer team in N...

This study addressed geographical uniqueness in relation to elite coaching. The study explores the complexities associated to coaching in northern Canadian communities, and how unique geographical surroundings can affect coaching success. The views of fourteen National and International elite coaches from different northern Canadian communities are included within the study. The respondents wer...

Team sports place high demands on visuospatial and other cognitive skills. However, there is a lack of research on visuospatial skills of elite athletes and there are heterogeneous results on basic cognitive skills of this population. Therefore, this series of studies tested different cognitive skills in elite team sports athletes. In Experiment 1, elite athletes were compared to recreational a...

"Attentional" adaptations are fundamental effects for sport performance. We tested the hypothesis that tiredness and muscular fatigue poorly affect visuo-spatial attentional processes in elite karate athletes. To this aim, 14 elite karate athletes and 11 non-athletes were involved in an isometric contraction exercise protocol up to muscular fatigue. Blood lactate and attention measurements were...

CONTEXT There are significant data comparing elite and nonelite athletes in anaerobic field and court sports as well as endurance sports. This review delineates specific performance characteristics in the elite athlete and may help guide rehabilitation. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A Medline search from April 1982 to April 2012 was undertaken for articles written in English. Additional references wer...

T eam volleyball is an Olympic sport played professionally in many countries around the world. Despite the increasing professionalization of coaches and athletes, there is little research data concerning performance in professional volleyball players. Two major reasons for this are suggested. Some coaches adopt traditional methodologies in resistance training (RT) programs for team volleyball, ...

emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage self-emotions and others' emotions and includes the intelligent use of emotions. this study aimed at investigating the emotional intelligence in male and female elite athletes in team and individual sport fields. the sample consisted of 62 female elite athletes and 74 male elite athletes selected from different individual and t...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between leadership styles of coaches and satisfaction of iranian elite judo players which was carried out by a descriptive – correlation field method. the statistical population of this study consisted of all 162 judo players of premier league in iran. statistical sample consisted of 125 judo players based on morgan sample size table. in o...

BACKGROUND The objective was to study nutritional supplement use among young elite UK athletes to establish whether a rationale versus practice incongruence exists, and to investigate the sources of information. Survey data were analysed for association between supplements used and motives for using such substances among young athletes along with the sources of advice and literature precedents ...