The purpose of the present field study was to examine the predictions of Multidimensional Anxiety Theory (MAT; Martens et a]., 1990) with elite male wheelchair basketball players. Thirty-seven elite male wheelchair basketball players completed the CSAI-I1 prior to each of three tournament games. Results were analyzed using the intraindividual procedures recommended by Sonstroem and Bernado (198...

Sport ability may be seen as relatively stable, genetically determined and not easily modified by practice, or as increasable with training, work and effort. Using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the purpose of the present study is to examine whether the practice of a particular sport (swimming or basketball) can influence automatic beliefs about sport ability in these two sports. The IAT ...

In this article the trajectory-based evaluation of multi-player basketball activity is addressed. The organized basketball activity consists of a set of key elements and their temporal relations. The activity evaluation is performed by analyzing individually each of them and the final reasoning about the activity is achieved using the Bayesian network. The network structure is obtained automati...

this study examined the effect of general and specific practice on the presence of a special skill. 24 healthy university students with no history of basketball were selected. after a pretest, they performed constant and variable practice (in constant and variable groups) for 5 weeks and 3 sessions per week. a performance test was conducted at the end of every week and retention and transfer te...

In this paper we present a method for fully automatic trajectory based analysis of basketball game in the form of large and small scale modelling of the game. The large-scale game model is obtained by dividing the game into several game phases. Every game phase is then individually modelled using mixture of Gaussian distributions. The Expectation-Maximization algorithm is used to determine the ...

Although repeated sprint ability (RSA) is a major determinant of performance in basketball, only a few studies have examined previously RSA in this sport compared to the extensive existing literature on other team sports (e.g. soccer). The aim of the present study was to review previous studies that have examined RSA in basketball players. The characteristics of RSA protocols (sprint distance, ...

We conducted a review to collect the validated basketball-specific physical field tests and provide practical advice for their appropriate selection application. A comprehensive electronic literature search was performed via three databases (PubMed, GoogleScholar, SportDiscuss). Results of 93 studies provided recommendations seven test packages eighteen individual that have already been basketb...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate physical fitness in relation to fatness in urban and rural Greek children by means of allometric scaling. METHODS The sample consisted of 360 (189 urban and 171 rural; age 12.3+/-0.42 years) boys and 247 (125 urban and 122 rural; age 12.3+/-0.43 years) girls. The sample was highly representative (32-64%) of all 12 year old children registered...

Previous research has applied the behavioral momentum metaphor to men's college basketball. In the current investigation, the relative rate of reinforcement prior to and following adversities (e.g., turnovers, fouls) and periods of time-out were examined in a subset of women's college basketball games.