OBJECTIVE To estimate the overall incidence of acute and overuse volleyball injuries, and to describe factors associated with ankle sprains. METHODS 486 players from the second and third Dutch national volleyball divisions participated in the study and were followed prospectively during a whole season. Three measurements were made during the season (baseline, follow up 1, and follow up 2), wh...

BACKGROUND Very little is known about the injury characteristics of beach volleyball. PURPOSE To describe the incidence and pattern of injuries among professional male and female beach volleyball players. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study--retrospective injury recall and prospective registration. METHODS Injuries occurring over a 7.5-week interval of the summer season were retrospectively registe...

The main purpose of the study was to examine whether M Capacity, as it is defined in Pascual-Leone’s Theory of Constructive Operators as the maximum number of schemes which can be simultaneously activated by attentional resources, is predictive of motor learning – in this case, of the acquisition and development of the “third touch” in volleyball. This hypothesis, supported by some preliminary ...

Since the teaching ability has been influenced by many factors in volleyball sports teaching, it is more difficult to make objective and fair evaluation to mark it. At present, the evaluation volleyball teaching ability is mainly based on the following aspects, such as students’ academic achievements students’ evaluation for teacher and the finished status of teaching projects. All the evaluati...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the developmental pathway of skilled and less skilled volleyball players by focusing on the quantity and type of sporting activities, as well as their age and height in comparison to peers in those experiences. Retrospective interviews were conducted to provide a longitudinal and detailed account of sport involvement of 30 skilled and 30 less skilled vol...

With the aim of validating the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory on a population of young Croatian volleyball players, 286 examinees, 106 male and 180 female volleyball players (average age of 16.09+/-1.83), filled out the CSAI-2, constructed by Martens, Vealey, Burton, Bump and Smith (1990)1. Given the fact that all scales of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory have good homogeneity, rel...