Tuesday, March 23, 2010

25/03/10 - The Start

I have found some literature on the Government Game Plan and other aspects of sports development in the UK and I have stored some references in Ref Works and in my TDEVA dropbox filing system.

I have also created a mind map

Thursday, March 11, 2010

01 - 02/10/09 - Introduction

Pheobe goes running (friends) how not to do it!

Harvard Referencing

Assignment 1 - team / individual

compare/ contrast

eg lane/field markings

read the brief!!

Directed Task 300 words

20 - 23/04/10 - Team Challenge (Pontypool Park)

19 - 19/03/10 - More Sports Skills Demonstrations (Not me)

18 - 12/03/10 - ASS 2 - Sports Skills Demonstration

17 - 05/03/10 - Orienteering (St Julians Woods)

11/03/10 - Presentation Notes

We got together as a group in the library on 03/03/10 - 1 week before the presentation this worked well.

Our presentation was on 09/03/10 we were 3rd on!

I have got 2 slides on motor learning as my part of the presentation.

Motor learning is a taught skill whereas motor development is age related change

a skill is acquired deliberately through practice or experience

growth / maturation (Denzil and Chris)

what about other senses - audio / visual / perception

Karl Newell model (1986)

Individual / Task / Environment

Vision develops in parallel with locomotion to the age of about 10

Auditory - develops from birth in about 6 months

kinesthetic

Motor learning - - tennis girl slide (just as Britain lose to Lithuania)

the 4 sports slide - environment - typically british sports

starting the race / dribbling (also the you tube slide)

hockey / golf

Jean Piaget - Swiss psychologist / philosopher

Karl Newell - Model for Motor Development (mentioned in Haywood)

07 - 02/03/10 - LTAD

LTAD development 10 years or 10,000 years

Balyi et al (1999, 2001, 2004)

Components of athletic ability need to be trained through childhood

Balance
hand/eye coordination
technique (skill)
confidence/motivation/psychology
concentration/focus

5 S's Stamina, Strength, Skill, Speed and Suppleness

growth spurt - don't overtrain - windows of opportunity

see this link for LTAD - www.ltad.ca

see table 1 in the slides

concerns - growth / overtraining / schoolwork

weight / mass / scales accuracy

sensitive information - height

stature minus sitting height = subischal length

skeletal breadth

calf - gastrocnemius

baby head circumference is a common measure

skinfold thickness

triceps

subscapular
medial calf

suprailiac

abdominal

body fat % - male 12% - 18% ; female 16% - 28%

bioimpedance - very inaccurate

changes in physique (slide)

somatotype -
endomorphy, mesomorphy, ectomorphy

Hormonal changes

Little man syndrome (Napoleon Complex)

references - see slide but Haywood definitely

Skill Acquisition Piaget 155.413 PIA - the essential piaget

07 - 02/03/10 - The Coach /Parent / Athlete Triad

Reference Byrne, 2002

Parent Involvement Continuum Hellstad (1987)

Bill of rights (on moodle)

The Parent involvement continuum (on Moodle)

Directed task 400 words on Parental influences in athlete development

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

12 - 02/03/10 - Organising Sports Competitions / Frisbee Challenge

20 students attended the lecture out of an initial complement of 53.

Why have competition?

Goals/Improvement
Fun
See who is best
Learning environment
Motivation
Goals/Targets
Health Benefits
Social Interaction

Types of Competition

International
Selection
Team
Individual
Adults/Children/Age Groups
Weight Categories - Rugby/Boxing/etc.
Gender
team/individual
Amateur/Professional
Disability
Open/Closed
Selection
Small/Large
Novice
Handicap

Formats

Leagues
Ladders
Ranking
Knock-out
Tournaments
Friendly Matches

10/03/10 - Assignment Review

What went well?
In general the write up was good and was marked as an A-


What would I have done differently?
I didn't get the coaching plan from Denzil until the day of the session. I needed it before then to add coaching points.

What did I learn?
There were comments on using references but not making it clear what is actually stated in the referenced document.
"We" is not first person!

What still puzzles me?

Monday, March 1, 2010

05/03/10 - Optional Workshop - Qualitative Research

19/02/10 - Optional Workshop - Quantitative Research

This was with Liv and Heather. After a brief lecture we went to the IT suite and had a practice with SPSS.

12/02/10 - Consolidation Lecture - Qualitative Research

Qualitative Research

With Jo Brayford (?)

Interviews - Individual / Focus Groups (8 - 12 people) / Ethnography / + etc (see slides)

Ethnography - e.g study behaviour of football hooligans for example.

participant or non-participant (become native / see only what they want you to see)

Cannot generalise on the basis of one study

Qualitative provides the human side - the intangibles that number crunching (Quantitative Research) cannot reveal - cannot generalise!!

Quantitative Research (Heather Watkins)

Ordinal data - can rank but not measure

Discrete v Continuous

Related - unrelated

eg fitness levels / sporty / sedentary

SPSS

Descriptive and or Inferential

Descriptive = mean, mode, median, range, std dev.

small std dev indicates results are closely grouped around the mean.

Inferential - Statistical tests - ANOVA, regression, correlation etc.

Probablity

Dice = 50/50 ; scale = 0 <---> 1 ;

Significance

p-value < 0.05

p-value > 0.05 means result is not significant.

Differences

T-tests

one sample T-test reveals the p-value (probability)

two sample T-test (?)

Dufferences

Inferential Difference - one way Anova Analysis of Variance

Correlations

coefficient is a number between -1 and 1

1 = perfect correlation
0 = no correlation
-1 = inverse correlation

Pearson's Product (?)




16 - 26/02/10 - Movement Analysis

We did a movement analysis session with George. Playing volleyball. The group was split into two sets. 9-10 and 10-11. I was in the first hour. We were split into four teams. While 1 & 2 were on court, 3 & 4 were on the balcony doing movement analysis and vice versa. We had a diagram of the court. We had to pick one player and make a note of their movements. Eg A=ace, SE=set, B=Block, O=out etc.

I did Jade and gave her the sheet. Nobody did me!!

00 - 19/02/10 - Reading Week

15 - 12/02/10 - NISV Rotations (4) - Multi Sport 2

12/02/10 - (15) - NISV Rotations (4) - Multi Sport

14 - 05/02/10 - NISV Rotations (3) - Multi Sport

06 - 23/02/10 - Part 2 - Child Protection

Why?

Legal Responsibility

Duty of Care

Appropriate Load/Fequency

Participation/Retention

Health and Wellbeing

Injury prevention

appropriate sports and social development

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Responsibility
strategy and standards
identify and respond to threats
share knowledge and skills with others
safeguard oneself

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Definition of abuse (on slide)

Physical, sexual, emotional, neglect, verbal
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inappropriate training
fabrication/deliberate inducement of injury
(Munchausen by Proxy)
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Sport OR Abuse - some dangers

No coercion

Pushy parents!!

innapropriate age grouping

trips/tours away

touching - dealing with injury

overnight stays

photography

Obligations

Code of conduct, NGB Ruls

vigilance - sensitivity - report concerns - don't to anything alone

Reference - NSPCC web site (Child Protection in Sport Unit)

Example - Shanghai China Circus videos on you tube (have been removed from the web site)

06 - 23/02/10 - Part 1 - Learning Sports Skills

We discussed innate v learned skills

performing skills with minimum energy

perception - decision making - activity production

Practice - a deliberate attempt to learn a skill

(Magill, 2004)

Learning ... a change (see slide)

detrimental effects - drugs, lack of sleep, moods, stress etc...

Practice - permanent change enduring for months or years

temporary effects

Motor Skills Development (Piaget, 1972)

CC says there is a concern that today's kids with their TV and computer games may not learn motor skills.

we discussed things that can be done to assist kids in learning

equipment sizes (small balls and pitches)

encourage play rather than competition

restrict the number of events/distances

smaller hurdles/weight of equipment