Kalaja, Sami Fundamental movement skills, physical activity, and motivation toward Finnish school physical education: A fundamental movement skills intervention Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2012, 87 p. (Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Health, ISSN 0356-1070; 183) ISBN 978-951-39-4816-0 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-4817-7 (PDF) The aim of the study was to analyze changes in students’ f...

ABSTRACT Introduction Modern basketball is very competitive and enjoyable; it combines several factors. Basketball requires specific physical characteristics such as high stature, which raises the position of center gravity, making stability angle smaller. This compromises stability, especially in sudden speed direction changes, because a large base opening. The core musculature intimately invo...

This paper describes the inverse kinematics kicking system used in UT Austin Villa’s submission to the humanoid RoboCup simulation league competition. It describes the infrastructure we designed and how machine learning is used to optimize a set of kicks with the hope of developing a versatile and omnidirectional kick. As of now, the ability to kick has not substantially affected the outcome of...

The intermittent nature of match performance in youth soccer supports relevance of ability to repeatedly produce high-intensity actions with short recovery periods. This study was aimed to examine the reproducibility of a repeated dribbling ability protocol and, additionally, to estimate the contribution of concurrent tests to explain inter-individual variability in repeated dribbling output. T...

Physical and health education is carried out as part of an organized continuous process to acquire knowledge, personality, skills, health, physical fitness. In this education, three domains must be achieved, such cognitive, affective, psychomotor. Of the domains, dominant one psychomotor domain because many subjects are directly related motion values, movement abilities skills. One compulsory i...

This paper describes the University of Queensland’s robot soccer team, the RoboRoos, that placed second at RoboCup 2003. This paper describes the mechanical systems, including the omni-directional drive system, the crossbow kicker and the dribbling mechanism, and briefly describes the electrical and electronic systems. The paper explains the new software systems of the RoboRoos, which were the ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate diurnal variation in some specific skills performance and some physical fitness and physiological factors in soccer players. Twelve male soccer players (mean±SD; age 22.6±3 years; height 1.76±4.4 m; body mass 66.5±4.6 kg) participated in the study. Subjects performed some specific soccer skills and some physical fitness factors in one day. One test w...

Background. This study focused on the cross-country validation of Dutch perceptual-motor skills assessment used for talent detection in table tennis which also could be basis to create country-specific norm values young children (aged 7 9). Materials and methods. In total, data from 172 Kosovo 219 Netherlands were compared. The consisted outcomes seven items evaluating gross motor function (i.e...

Ball dribbling is a central element of basketball. One main challenge for realizing basketball robots is to stabilize periodic motion of the ball. The task is nontrivial due to the discrete-continuous nature of the corresponding dynamics. This paper proposes to add an elastic element to the manipulator so the ball can be controlled in a continuous-time phase instead of an intermittent contact. ...