McGarry and Franks (1996) In search of invariant athletic behaviour in sport: an example from championship squash match-play

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In search of invariant athletic behaviour in sport: an example from championship squash match-play

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	McGarry, T.
	Author:	Franks, I. M. (University of British Columbia (UBC))

JOURNAL:

Journal of Sports Sciences (JSS), 14(5), ?? - ??.

YEAR:

1996

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

EVALUATION-STUDY; SKILL; STRATEGY; CANADA; ELITE-ATHLETE; MAN; SQUASH-RACQUETS

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No discipline assigned

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LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-366-517 (Last edited on 2002/03/07 18:52:49 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
Analysis of competitive sport performance from a priori observation is frequently used to prepare an athlete for a future contest. This practice necessarily assumes that the observed athletic behaviours are invariant, in that the data from an earlier contest apply to the next. We report different analyses of championship squash matches from 1987 and 1988 in search of such invariance and thus a general signature of athletic behaviour. The results show that once the preceding condition to an athletic response (shot) becomes more detailed, by either accounting for where on court the previous shot was played to, or by pairing the previous shot with its own antecedent, the corresponding response becomes more predictable (P greater than 0.25). This is especially the case for a squash champion when the forehand and backhand characteristics of his shot response are accounted for. The finding that the champion is more consistent if his forehand and backhand shot responses to a preceding shot are analysed separately, shows that the level of analytic detail is an important consideration if the derived information from sport analysis is to prepare an athlete reliably for future sport competition. Finally, we consider sport competition from an ecological perspective with regard to the natural organization and stability of non-linear systems in an attempt to explain the empirical data.

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