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Álvaro Fortunato; Celina Gonçalves; Vítor P. Lopes – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
The complexity of interactions in team sports requires players to have excellent technical skills. The purpose of this study was to longitudinally investigate the predictive value of motor competence (MC) on soccer-specific skills development. Participants were n = 79 boys, aged between 5.89 and 14.63 years at baseline followed for 3 consecutive…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Team Sports, Athletes, Children
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Moradi, Jalil; Maleki, Mohammad; Moradi, Hadi – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effect of part and whole practice on learning basketball lay-up shot skill in young and adolescent male students. Participants were randomly divided into four groups of part and whole practice, namely, part practice-young, whole practice-young, part practice-adolescent, and whole practice-adolescent. After a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adolescents, Males, Team Sports
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Gul, Mine; Aydogan, Semihcan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
This study aimed to research the effect of dry-land quickness training for 14-16 years old male swimmers on 50 m freestyle swimming performance. 30 volunteer male athletes and 10 volunteer males in the same age group who do not sport participated in this study. Athletes were grouped who took swimming training as experiment1 (E1), experiment2 (E2)…
Descriptors: Training, Program Effectiveness, Athletes, Males
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Eryilmaz, Selcen Korkmaz; Kaynak, Kerimhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 6-week skill-based volleyball training program on the running economy (RE) of male competitive volleyball players. Ten male amateur volleyball players (age 21.1 ± 1.5 years) participated in a 6-week skill-based volleyball training program three times a week in the pre-season preparatory…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Psychomotor Skills, Team Sports, Athletes
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Cengizel, Elif; Cengizel, Çagdas Özgür; Öz, Elvan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of 4-month basketball training on speed, agility and jump in youth male basketball players. A total of 14 male basketball players from the youth category participated in the study voluntarily. Before the research, parents' consent documents were obtained from the parents of the players. The study…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Physical Activities, Training, Psychomotor Skills
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Akçinar, Faruk; Macit, Suat – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The aim of the study is to examine the effects of core training in 9-10 years aged male handball players on selected biomotor and techniques special to the branch. This research is an experimental study in the screening model. The study consists of a total of 26 male volunteer students, including the experimental (n=13) and Control (N=13) group.…
Descriptors: Training, Preadolescents, Males, Psychomotor Skills
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Emamian, Amirhossein; Hashemi Oskouei, Alireza; Azreh, Rasoul; Carroll, Kevin – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
In previous studies, the acute effects of movement constraints on the countermovement jump performance are investigated; however, the longitudinal effects of implementing the constraint in a training regimen are not well studied. The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of motor learning development due to application of task…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Comparative Analysis
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Bonney, Nathan; Berry, Jason; Ball, Kevin; Larkin, Paul – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Purpose: In Australian Football (AF), the ability to proficiently kick the ball is a critical skill and has been shown to be advantageous to a team's successful performance; however, a valid and reliable match referenced kicking assessment remains absent. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable AF kicking proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development
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Yüksel, Oguzhan; Gündüz, Bolat; Kayhan, Mert – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of regular CrossFit training on some force and jump parameters. 32 healthy wrestling men participated in the study, 16 experimental and 16 control groups. For the experimental group, CrossFit training, known as Cindy, was practiced three times a week for 8 weeks. The training consisted of 5…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Training, Males, Muscular Strength
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Akyuz, Cem; Camliguney, Asiye Filiz – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
The objective of this study is to assess the impact of deceleration training method on improving dynamic balance skills of young soccer players in comparison with the conventional training methods. This study included 26 young soccer players (mean age: 13.54±1.48, height: 154.98±12.44, weight: 46.16±11.06, Body Mass Index 18.96±2.21 kg/m2 , fat…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Length, Training Methods, Psychomotor Skills
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Lapresa, Daniel; Gutiérrez, Ianire; Pérez-de-Albéniz, Alicia; Merino, Patricia; Anguera, M. Teresa – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
This study illustrates the potential offered by observational methodology for analysing spontaneous behaviours and interactions by students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We present a case study in which we observed, analysed and interpreted how an adolescent boy with ASD interacted both verbally and non-verbally with his physical education…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Males, Interaction
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Orhan, Ozlem; Polat, Sezen Cimen; Yarim, Imdat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This study was conducted to evaluate the jump performance of youth basketball players according to their sport ages. 26 male basketball players (14.1±1.6 year) who participated in the study were divided into two groups of sport ages of 4 and below (=4) and 6 and above (=6). The group with sports ages =4 consisted of 12 male basketball players with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Athletics, Team Sports, Athletes
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Adigüzel, Niyazi Sidki – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to compare dynamic balance education among young athletes in different sports. So forty male volunteers in soccer (n = 11), handball (n = 6), sprinting (n = 10), and martial arts (n = 13) participated in the current study. The mean age, height, and weight of the participants were 15.7 ± 0.5 years, 175.3 ± 4.6 cm, and 63.0 ± 6.8…
Descriptors: Males, Athletes, Athletics, Team Sports
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Müller, Sean; Abernethy, Bruce – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2014
Anticipation skill was trained through temporal occlusion using vision occlusion spectacles. A with-movement training group had vision occluded as they batted against bowlers, while the without-movement training group's vision was occluded as they stood behind a net and made a verbal prediction of ball types. Intervention groups and a control…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Expertise, Video Technology, Simulation
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Burcak, Keskin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of the present research is studying the effects of warm-up with two different sizes of balls on passing skills. Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (LSPT) was conducted on 28 non-elite football players, who participated in the present research for 10 training days. LSPT is a passing skill protocol established on completing 16 passes…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Team Sports, Training, Athletes
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