Essays on Types of Sport

Introduction The primary purpose amongst athletes at competition is performing at their maximum level (Collin and Moody, 2016). Ice Hockey is a contact sport, it is physically challenging and consists of repeated high-intensity periods alongside rapid changes in velocity (Burr et al. 2008). Important fitness components are agility, strength and power, aerobic endurance, and balance/coordination...

Review of current soccer-specific exercise stimulation protocols in order to assess interventions within the sport effectively Due to the susceptibility of contextual factors in soccer match play it creates difficulty to acquire consistent physical stresses within athletes affecting reliability of assessing implemented interventions. Consequently soccer specific exercise protocols have been developed based off the assessment...

Roberts (2016) continues to explain that Elias was working towards the questions of how and why society viewed themselves as more civilised. Eliasians claim the occurrence of the industrial revolution and urbanisation alongside the development of modern sports lead to both sport and society becoming civilised. Sport became an outlet for society to express their...

Introduction Education in football in the United Kingdom has historically adopted a model of following traditionally accepted norms towards coaching methodology and philosophy. There has been an insular stance towards academic discourse, research and epistemological practices that can be viewed as ‘outside’ football knowledge (Haywood, 2008; Pain 2010). My experience as a player, coach, coach-educator...

Introduction: The 100m sprint is known throughout the world as being one of the greatest displays of the power of the human body, however the 100m sprint can be an extremely useful gauge of acceleration and the kinematic factors that contribute to acceleration. This research paper shall display the effect of kinematic factors upon acceleration...

Design Proposal After My market research I created 2 designs which meet’s my specification and what my client wants. I made an original design I used green and blue as my primary and secondary colours. I did this because I found out from my research that 15 people said they like green and blue and...

Introduction In a world full of conflicts and differences in values, interests and beliefs between ethical groups, a development of solutions for peace- and community building is getting increasingly necessary. One solution which has a small but important impact on peace building is the use of sport. Therefore, the application of sport as a device...