Publicaties

Gymmermansoog

Scaling constraints in junior tennis

Purpose: The net height in tennis (0.91 m) is approximately 50% of a professional tennis player’s height. Children are also expected to play with this net height, even though it is approximately 70% of the ...

The Athletic Skills Model

<p><em>The Athletic Skills Model</em> offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It ...

Reliability and concurrent validity of a motor skill competence test among 4- to 12-year old children

The purpose of this study was to examine the test-retest reliability, internal consistency and concurrent validity of the Athletic Skills Track (AST). During a regular PE lesson, 930 4- to 12-year old children (448 ...

The effect of manipulating task constraints on game performance in youth field hockey

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of manipulating game constraints on match performance in youth field hockey. A total of 25 participants aged 10.6–14.6 years old played four different ...

Effects of reflex-based self-defence training on police performance in simulated high-pressure arrest situations

We investigated the effects of reflex-based self-defence training on police performance in simulated high-pressure arrest situations. Police officers received this training as well as a regular police arrest and ...

Effects of threat, trait anxiety and state anxiety on police officers’ actions during an arrest

Purpose: We investigated the effects of threat and trait anxiety on state anxiety and how that affects police officers’ actions during an arrest. Most experiments on police performance under anxiety test the ...

System for notational analysis in small-sided soccer games

The objective of this study was to compose an objective and detailed notational analysis system for 3 vs. 2GK smallsided soccer games, in which three roles are examined: attacker with ball, attacker without ball and ...

Quantifying external focus of attention in sailing by means of action sport cameras

<p>The aim of the current study was twofold: (1) to validate the use of action sport cameras for quantifying focus of visual attention in sailing and (2) to apply this method to examine whether an external ...

Perceptueel-motorische talentontwikkeling

Sport heeft een belangrijke rol in onze samenleving; onderzoek in en naar sport draagt bij aan het versterken van deze rol. In het Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science (AISS) werken Amsterdamse kennisinstellingen met ...

The effect of manipulating task constraints and player numbers in small-sided games in field hockey

Action-specific effects on perception are grounded in affordance perception

Faster, slower or real time?

Validity and reliability of 6-a-side small-sided game locomotor performance in assessing physical fitness in football players

<p>In order to determine whether small-sided game (SSG) locomotor performance can serve as a fitness indicator, we (1) compared 6-a-side (6v6) SSG-intensity of players varying in fitness and skill, (2) examined ...