Background and Study Aim. To study psychological features of sports coaches physical education teachers’ professional hardiness. Material methods. The involved 60 participants. Among them, 24 were children's youth schools, 19 national teams Ukraine 17 teachers. English-language version the Professional Hardiness Questionnaire (PHQ) used. development PHQ was based on its initial Ukrainian-langua...

A great deal of research on coach-athlete interactions during competition has focused team sports, something which does not consider the many contextual differences between and individual sports. Diving is an sport where recurrent intermittent breaks dives in provide athletes coaches with opportunities to communicate interact event. The purpose this study was understand elite divers’ perspectiv...

Talent identification tests used at the Australian Football League's National Draft Combine assess the capacities of athletes to compete at a professional level. Tests created for the National Draft Combine are also commonly used for talent identification and athlete development in development pathways. The skills tests created by the Australian Football League required players to either handba...

The fact sheet summarises the results of this project as to the prevention of injuries in handball. It has been developed for national handball federations and local associations and is in particular addressing coaches and officials. This with the view to assist them in developing and implementing safety management schemes in clubs and their national federation and to encourage coaches as well ...

BACKGROUND It is not uncommon for chiropractors to be associated with sports teams for injury prevention, treatment, or performance enhancement. There is increasing acceptance of the importance of sports psychology in the overall management of athletes. Recent findings indicate mental hardiness can be determined reliably using specific self-assessment questionnaires. This study set out to inves...

The aim of the present study was to identify different cluster groups of handball players according to their physical performance level assessed in a series of physical assessments, which could then be used to design a training program based on individual strengths and weaknesses, and to determine which of these variables best identified elite performance in a group of under-19 [U19] national l...