All athletes regardless of age, gender, genetics or sport can benefit from effective training. It is important that the selected training improves the body’s ability to perform tasks associated with the chosen sport. (Kiss, 2010) Touch football is a fast paced game where an oval-shaped ball is passed between players who avoid being ‘touched’ by the defensive team, in order to score a touchdown. The game requires a range of demands from the three energy systems; Creatine phosphate, Lactic Acid and Aerobic. Specific fitness components are also required to perform a game of touch effectively. There are three positions in a touch game; centre, link and wing. They all require varied amounts of the energy systems and fitness components. This assignment will focus on the exercise physiology in relation to touch and the evaluation of my own fitness profile.…
During the activity of kicking a football a person will use most of the muscles and joints in their body to perform the movement. Many of these muscles and joints may only play a small role in the movement but will affect the overall quality of the kick. Because of the amount of muscles and joints used in the kick I have chosen to only discuss the most important to the skill of each to discus. The three main joints used to perform a kick in football are the hip joint, the knee joint and the elbow joint.…
“The object of the game is to put the ball into your opponent's goal. This may be done by throwing the ball from any part of the grounds, with one or two hands, under the following conditions and rules”:…
3-time World Cup soccer veteran Cobi Jones shared important tips and tricks for successful penalty kicks in soccer. He talked about how it is all mental and to keep the ball on the ground. Also how that as a coach you can help with penalty kicks. This is important to me because I am helping coach a soccer team this year. It is an 8u team that I am helping my friend out with. This video helps me because it gives me some tips and tricks to help coach the team.…
Passing with in step - you’d be told to keep an eye on the person your passing to open your body up, put your non kicking foot besides the ball pointing to where you want the pass to go, make contact using the instep of the striking foot and kick the ball, after contact with the ball follow through it.…
“As the ball moves through the air, the air parts around the ball. Behind the ball, the airstreams that separated come back together” (Bend It Like Magnus). In order to kick the soccer ball farther than normal, the ball needs to be pumped up harder than most other soccer balls (Live-strong). Magnus effect is the force exerted on a fast spinning cylinder or sphere moving through air or another fluid in a direction at an angle to the axis of spin (Magnus Effect/Physics). “The ball is like a rock in a fast flowing river — the water splits around the rock, then swirls to fill in behind the rock, causing turbulence” (Bend It Like Magnus). Turbulence is the motion of air, caused by changes in air current (Turbulence: Everything You Need To…
No other discrete movement in football is as spectacular as the gesture known as the bicycle kick: when a player kicks the ball in mid-air backwards and over his own head. Many players have tried it; some of them have succeeded but few have performed a perfect one. A perfect bicycle kick is a rare event, even in the World Cup it is not guaranteed that one will witness a bicycle kick for it encompasses movement of the entire body, requiring the perfect synchronization of major muscles and joints requiring strength, agility and flexibility.…
In this version of kickball basketball there are 2 teams with about 13 players on each team. The game is still played on a full sized basketball court. In this game the pitcher rolls out the ball to the kicker, and the kicker kicks it. After the kick has been made, the objective of the offense is for them to run as fast as they can around the basses to get to home plate before the defense makes 5 passes and shoot the ball into the basket. However, if the offensive player gets around all three bases before the defense makes their 5 passes and a shot, the runner must tag the next person in line on offense. Then that person starts to run around the bases. If the defensive basket…
The article was about trying to figure out the different phases of movement for the regular and spin throws in the sport of goalball and to find any relationship in ball velocity and time in each phase of movement. This study is quantitative in nature because it was based on numbers and results were determined by numeric data analysis.…
* II . Proper stance- A proper correct stance will allow a better chance to hit the ball straight…
As shown on the front cover of the book, soccer is a worldwide sport and it will have a great deal of importance to the majority of people worldwide. A soccer ball will not only represent their hopes and dreams, but also a different reality to their normal…
making contact with the ball for maximum force production. There is a greater chance of…
I will outline the development of kicking between the ages of a 5 to 7 year old. In addition to this I will clearly outline how the skill of kicking will contribute to physical literacy and therefore physical activity for later in life. Kicking is a gross motor skill and requires the large muscles to contract. A gross motor skills also requires a child to move and control their larger muscles in their body for example arms, legs, feet or their entire body. Using the larger muscles in the child’s body will allow them to deliver functions such as walking, lifting or throwing a ball.…
The term ‘skill acquisition’ is used to describe the ability to learn a new skill. There is no specification as to what is classified as a skill, a skill can be anything from intellectual activities to physical activities, a skill can even be something as a simple as listening. The objective of skill acquisition is to select a new skill and study that skill until you have learnt it. Skill acquisition is an extremely important part of sport making it a heavily researched and investigated topic and therefor there are many different theories on the best way to acquire a skill. According to (Skill acquisition and performance improvement, Abernathy B, 2005) with practice, skills become less consciously controlled and more automatic, this provides highly-skilled performers with the ability to perform multiple tasks relating to that skill concurrently and therefor for efficiently. This report will outline the stages of learning a skill, open and closed skills, types of practice, how feedback can improve the process of skill acquisition and skill acquisition relating to volleyball.…
In sports, winning a game is the main thing any player strives for. In soccer, in order to win a game, you need to score more goals than the opposing team. Many factors go into scoring goals. Skill, fear, pressure, and stress all go into the ability of a soccer player to score goals. I decided to explore a little more about how these soccer players score during soccer games, and investigate if other factors affect their scoring ability.…