Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport
scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport
performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory
based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis
enables elite sports people and coaches to obtain live feedback of match
statistics and video sequences using flexible internet systems, systems
that have become an indispensible tool for all those involved in high
performance sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance
Analysis is the most comprehensive guide to this exciting and dynamic
branch of sport science ever to be published.
The book explores performance analysis across the four main contexts in
which it is commonly used: support for coaches and athletes; the media;
judging sport contests, and academic research. It offers an up-to-date
account of methodological advances in PA research, assesses the evidence
underpinning contemporary theories of sport performance, and reviews
developments in applied PA across a wide range of sports, from soccer to
track and field athletics. Covering every important aspect of PA,
including tactics, strategy, mechanical aspects of technique, physical
aspects of performance such as work-rate, coach behaviour and referee
behaviour, this is an essential reference for any serious student,
researcher or practitioner working in sport performance analysis, sport
coaching or high performance sport.
