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The Essentials of Performance Analysis

An Introduction

By Mike Hughes, Ian Franks

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge – 344 pages

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Description

What is performance analysis and how does its use benefit sports performance?

How can you use performance analysis in your sport?

The Essentials of Performance Analysis answers your questions, providing a complete guide to the foundational elements of match and performance analysis for new students and beginners.

As well as a basic introduction to the sport science and theory that underlies performance analysis, the book contains many practical examples to show performance analysis in its applied context. It includes discussion of:

  • approaches to analyzing sport performance
  • the use of feedback technologies
  • the use of video and biomechanical analysis
  • interpreting data
  • coaching with notational analysis.

The Essentials of Performance Analysis is a straightforward, concise and authoritative guide for students of sport science and sports coaching, as well as for coaches and athletes looking to develop their insight into sports performance analysis.

Contents

Introduction 1. The Need for Feedback 2. What is Performance Analysis? 3. The Provision of Information 4. Video-Feedback and Information Technologies 5. An Overview of the Development of Notation Analysis 6. Sports Analysis 7. How do we Design Simple Systems? - How to Develop a Notation System 8. Examples of Notation Systems 9. Analysis of Notation Data: Reliability 10. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis of Technique 11. Time-Motion Analysis 12. Probability Analysis of Notated Events in Sport Contests: Skill and Chance 13. Rule Changes in Sport and the Role of Notation 14. Performance Analysis in the Media 15. Notational Analysis of Coaching Behaviour

Author Bio

Mike Hughes is Professor and Head of the Centre for Performance Analysis and Course Director of the Masters in Performance Analysis at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

Ian Franks is Professor and Director of the Motor Control and Learning Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Name: The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Mike Hughes, Ian Franks. What is performance analysis and how does its use benefit sports performance? How can you use performance analysis in your sport? The Essentials of Performance Analysis answers your questions, providing a complete guide to the foundational elements of...
Categories: Physical Education, Coaching Theory, Applied Sport Science, Sports Performance Analysis