ABSTRACT Psychological factors play an integral role in sports and can affect performance at all levels of expertise. Arousal has been shown to increase in competitive settings and present an optimal level for enhanced performance. The aim of this study is to examine how arousal varies in competitive vs individual conditions and the extent of its impact on recreational swimming...
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The journal article Understanding Police and Expert Performance: When Training Attenuates (vs. Exacerbates) Stereotypic Bias in the Decision to Shoot by Jessica J. Sim, Joshua Correll, and Melody S. Sadler discusses several studies that were done to address problems police officers are facing where they have shot individuals of color who were unarmed. Experiments were performed on participants and officers...
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Abstract Athletes have struggled over the years with the pressure of having to deliver results in competition during crunch time. Many have succeeded, and many have failed. It is not uncommon for superstar athletes to fail and continue to see success during the course of their career. Take Michael Jordan for example, he missed over 12,000 shots over the course...
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Why are athletes not being tested more frequently in professional sports? As to many people, professional athletes serve as role models, idols, and heroes to them. However, the use of performance enhancing drugs taken by professional athletes have led to doubt on wondering if they’re truly the best or not. A 2017 quote by Tom Murray, says that “The first...
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Taekwondo or Tae Kwon Do is a martial art that was founded in Korea in the year of 1945 (Morris) and it was only in the year 2000 that it was announced to be an Olympic sport. ‘Tae’ meaning foot ‘Kwon’ meaning fist and ‘do’ meaning the way of, therefore, Taekwondo means the way of the hand and the foot....
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Athletes all across the world have or had some type of motivation during their road to success. Motivation, in my own words, is something that drives you and push you harder so you can accomplish your goal. Every athlete should have motivation. It drives you and gives build confidence in yourself, so you can perform and accomplish what you are...
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The nutritional considerations that athletes need to be aware of in order to improve their performance are categorised into 3 sections, pre-performance, during-performance and post-performance. Pre-performance The athlete must be aware that it is important to be well-fueled and hydrated. Tennis players need to pay special attention to their pre-match meals and beverage choices as these foods and fluids may...
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INTRODUCTION The sole purpose of the business is to sell products and services for profit. Advertising helps businesses to make a profit, on the other hand, helps consumers choose which products and services to buy and the consumer to choose the most appropriate option. Today, the advertising industry has become a huge industry, offering a wide range of products and...
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A tennis racket may look simple to the eye, but the technology surrounding this simple piece of equipment is in fact extremely elaborate. Over the course of the last century and a half the tennis racket has undergone a drastic period of evolution to become rackets like the 2019 Babolat Pure Aero. The modern tennis racket first entered the light...
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In the past two years, we have witnessed the destruction of men’s cricket in Australia. From cheating to racism to homophobia, Australia has seen it all. What will it take for the reputation of Cricket Australia to be restored? Will the team ever return to its former glory? 24 March 2018. A day forever marked by scandal and shame for...
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Ice hockey utilises all three energy systems, however the centre-forward position in hockey predominantly uses the aerobic energy system as they primarily play in the middle of the ice, hence having more flexibility in their positioning and therefore cover more ice surface than any other player. The aerobic system is the presence of oxygen, which allows the use of various...
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When considering an elite 100m sprinter's anaerobic capacities, the success of the athlete is dependent mainly on their alactic and lactic anaerobic metabolism (Legaz-Arrese et.al, 2007) . The source of fuel sprinters use is the ATP/PC energy system (pdhpe.net, 2015); this is due to the duration of the event not lasting long and ATP only lasts 8-12 seconds. In comparison,...
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The Principles of Training help to guide athletes and coaches in creating training sessions that meet both athlete and competition needs. The principles of training are specificity, progressive overload, reversibility, variety, training thresholds, and warmup/cooldowns. When the training principles are thoroughly applied and followed regularly, the body responds by adapting or adjusting to the new levels of stress placed upon...
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1. Lionel Messi, $127 million, soccer player 2. Cristiano Ronaldo, $109 million, soccer player 5. Roger Federer, $9.4 million, tennis player 8. LeBron James, $89 million, basketballer 21. Connor McGregor, $47 million, boxer 63. Serena Williams, $29.2 million, tennis I'm sure most of these names sound familiar to most of you. According to Forbes, These are some of the highest...
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Introduction Strength and conditioning works to form your body stronger, providing you with the talents you would like so as to make a simpler workout overall. When your core is healthy, you'll be ready to transfer energy to the all of the muscles. A smart strength and conditioning program can actually help prevent osteoporosis, which is one among the most...
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There's nothing more satisfying than a perfectly planned shot that swifts its way past the goalkeeper's defence. All of us are pretty much aware of the fact that this game is the most beloved one for over a century now. And nowadays even the digitalized version that is delivered to us in the form of video games is one of...
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Sport sector There are four main sectors of the QLD recreation industry, one of them being sport. The sport sector is very competitive. The sport industry is a market in which people, activities, business, and organizations are involved in producing, facilitating, promoting, or organizing any activity, experience, or business enterprise focused on sports. The sports sector industry is very popular...
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Kobe Bryant was and still is a worldwide known NBA Player to several people all over the world. In fact, Kobe Bryant wasn’t just an NBA Player, he was much more. A father, a husband, a loved one, a mentor, an idol and a hero. Kobe Bryant was an American professional basketball player who helped lead the NBA team, Los...
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We will be talking about how women in surfing is on the path to a really bright future, with gender equality and stereotype destruction occurring on the daily. I am here to tell you about how female surfers are dominating the surfing world. Women in surfing are notoriously known for their tan skin, perfect bodies and bleach blonde hair. This...
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The use of drugs in sport is a very controversial and ethical topic. Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are substances, commonly used by athletes to improve their performance. There is evidence of PEDs existing in sports from as early as the ancient Olympic games held in Olympia, Greece from 776BC - 393 AD. However, during the mid-1900s, particularly after the Second World...
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Introduction Task and Context Throughout this unit of physical education, various motor learning concepts have been explored and integrated within badminton performances. A personal motor learning strategy was developed, based on rate limiters, experience, practice, feedback and reflection. This strategy was then incorporated with a specialised movement sequence in order to advance and optimise personal performance in badminton. This task...
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What is the Boxing Day Tsunami? The Boxing Day Tsunami was a magnitude 9.2 tsunami which negatively affected society and the environment (University of Southampton,2017) which was caused by an earthquake and could have lessened by the use of buoys. There was no technology used to track tsunamis and warn civilians, it’s tremors from the earthquake before did not give...
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This paper will examine the sport of boxing in the context of Queensland, Australia. It is argued that there is a need to ban boxing, or at the very least, a need for legislation to impose stricter regulations to prevent death or serious injury among athletes. Figures show that in Australia alone, between 1830 and 2009, there have been 155...
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Introduction In this folio, I will devise a tactical strategy to modify my performance based on the selected task, learner and the environmental constraints and the principals of decision-making. My tactical strategy which is variation of pace from the rear court will focus on the outcome, limitation and the implications of the constraints of my movement. My tactical awareness allows...
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The key idea for my intertextual study is about breaking the colour barrier in American sport and that that people were being judged by the colour if there skin but should be judged by who they are as a person and that it only takes a few people to make a difference which is a constant theme conveyed in the...
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Introduction In this folio, I will be devising one personal tactical strategy to enhance my personal performance in Badminton. Furthermore, I will be evaluating and justifying my performance in Badminton based on my chosen movement strategies and position which is setting up an attack in a rear court position. In my personal performance in Badminton when playing my objectives were...
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The game of basketball developed from a game called peach basketball to a beloved but competitive game today. Basketball was invented in 1891 at Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts by Dr. James Naismith. Peach baskets were first used as goals, but without any openings in the bottoms, the ball had to be retrieved by the use of ladders after each basket....
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According to Hall&Willcox (2017), only the Aluminium Composite Panels (ACPs) consisting of polyethylene (PE) cores have come under scrutiny. Other panel types including FR, A1 and A2 are legal to use given they are attached to fire rated walls. On 15th August 2018, ACPs with PE-cores were strictly banned in high rise buildings and restricted to be only used for...
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Issues today in the boxing world is deaths and what causes these deaths. Many say it’s due to weight cuts and many say it’s because of the late stoppages. There’s been an estimated guess that about 1,876 boxers have died throughout history as a direct result of injuries sustained in the ring. So far as of 2019, 4 boxers have...
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Introduction Let’s stop feigning that the halls of fame measure a real-life fairyland, an area wherever we tend to celebrate solely the individuals and events. We can all agree it should be celebrated and remodeled it into an institution that offers athletes a wider vary of equal choices on the way to physically enhance themselves. Body Currently, some individuals might...
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