Game, set and match? Substantive issues and future directions in performance analysis

GLAZIER, P. (2010). Game, set and match? Substantive issues and future directions in performance analysis. Sports medicine, 40 (8), 625-634.

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Abstract

This article discusses the main substantive issue surrounding performance analysis and considers future directions in this recently formed sub-discipline of sport science. It is argued that it is insufficient to bring together sport biomechanics and notational analysis on the basis that they share a number of commonalities, such as they both aim to enhance performance, they both make extensive use of information and communications technology, and both are concerned with producing valid and reliable data. Rather, it is suggested that the common factor linking sport biomechanics and notational analysis is that they can both be used to measure and describe the same phenomenon (i.e. emergent pattern formation) at different scales of analysis (e.g. intra-limb, inter-limb and torso, and inter-personal). Key concepts from dynamical system theory, such as self-organisation and constraints, can then be used to explain stability, variability and transitions among coordinative states. By adopting a constraints-based approach, performance analysis could be effectively opened up to sport scientists from other sub-disciplines of sport science, such as sport physiology, rather than solely being the preserve of sport biomechanics and notational analysts. To conclude, consideration is given to how a more unified approach, based on the tenets of dynamic systems theory, could impact on the future of performance analysis.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Sports Engineering Research
Identification Number:	0112-1642/10/0008-0625
Page Range:	625-634
Depositing User:	Carole Harris
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2010 16:10
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2021 01:00
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2365

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