Situational analysis and decision-making represent key elements of elite sports performances, but few studies have investigated which player’s skills related to these aspects are relevant in handballers. The aim this study was address differences among handballers belonging two tiers processing situational probabilities information offensive defensive situations. A total 38 (male = 22, female 1...

In handball, specific physical demands differ and indifference to spinal can cause a serious hindrance in infinite value of sport life. The main aim this paper is make steps toward understanding identify clear patterns injury profile from handball players according their playing positions. With these challenge mind, new method using structured questionnaire has been applied number 52 senior mal...

In sports such as handball, where the overhead throw is commonly used, athletes must be physically fit to fulfil requirements of throw. This fitness includes parameters neuromuscular control, muscle strength, power, flexibility, balance, and agility. The purpose this study was investigate effect upper extremity control grip strength on shooting accuracy elite handball players. conducted with pa...

Handball is a fast growing sport in Asian. The consequences of playing handball such as recurrent collisions with other players during the game usually cause injuries to the players. The present study is an attempt to consider the incidence of injuries and the conditions under which Iranian handball player injured in the 2008-2009 league season using video analysis. In general, 105 injuries wer...

OBJECTIVE Considering the high number of stressors encountered in the context of elite sports, a high sense of coherence (SOC) is crucial to allow athletes to maintain their health from both short- and long-term perspectives. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate SOC in a population of elite athletes, focusing on identification of subsets of athletes with particularly high an...

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...

This paper presents a new trajectory-based approach for probabilistic temporal segmentation of team sports. The probabilistic game model is applied to the player-trajectory data in order to segment individual game instants into one of the three game phases (offensive game, defensive game and time-outs) and a nonlinear or Gaussian smoothing kernel is used to enforce the temporal continuity of th...