Basketball Size as Related to Children's Preference, Rated Skill, and Scoring

Regimbal, Celia

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“…In the latter case, testing involved five trials with a women’s basketball followed by five trials with a junior basketball for every participant, thereby creating a potential learning effect that favored the junior ball. For two studies, it was unclear whether the risk of detection bias was high or low, because technique was subjectively assessed by “observers,” but it was unclear whether the observers were independent from the research team and/or blinded to treatment allocation [ 7 , 9 ]. However, it must be noted that Hammond and Smith [ 7 ] did not explicitly state whether it was hitting technique or hitting accuracy that was assessed in their skills tests.…”

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“…Children of a similar age have elsewhere reported preference for, and presumably greater engagement when, using scaled tennis equipment, including smaller racquets and lower compression balls [ 24 ] and lower nets [ 23 ]. In a basketball study involving 77 10-year-old children [ 9 ], 48 (62 %) preferred using a junior ball (as opposed to a women’s or men’s ball) and only seven (9 %) preferred using an adult men’s ball. Whilst the junior ball did improve shooting performance for all children, it was observed that shooting performance was significantly better when children used the ball of their preference, which was typically a ball smaller than the adult men’s ball.…”

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Scaling the Equipment and Play Area in Children’s Sport to improve Motor Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review

Reid²,

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BackgroundThis review investigated the influence of scaling sports equipment and play area (e.g., field size) on children’s motor skill acquisition.MethodsPeer-reviewed studies published prior to February 2015 were searched using SPORTDiscus and MEDLINE. Studies were included if the research (a) was empirical, (b) involved participants younger than 18 years, (c) assessed the efficacy of scaling in relation to one or more factors affecting skill learning (psychological factors, skill performance and skill acquisition factors, biomechanical factors, cognitive processing factors), and (d) had a sport or movement skills context. Risk of bias was assessed in relation to selection bias, detection bias, attrition bias, reporting bias and other bias.ResultsTwenty-five studies involving 989 children were reviewed. Studies revealed that children preferred using scaled equipment over adult equipment (n = 3), were more engaged in the task (n = 1) and had greater self-efficacy to execute skills (n = 2). Eighteen studies demonstrated that children performed skills better when the equipment and play area were scaled. Children also acquired skills faster in such conditions (n = 2); albeit the practice interventions were relatively short. Five studies showed that scaling led to children adopting more desirable movement patterns, and one study associated scaling with implicit motor learning.ConclusionMost of the studies reviewed provide evidence in support of equipment and play area scaling. However, the conclusions are limited by the small number of studies that examined learning (n = 5), poor ecological validity and skills tests of few trials.

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Scaling the Equipment and Play Area in Children’s Sport to improve Motor Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review

Reid²,

et al. 2016

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“…A Brief Recap of the Scaling Literature Scaling junior sport is not a new concept, but it has become popular over the past decade. Research began focusing on scaling in the 1960s (Wright, 1967), albeit in small doses (Elliott, 1981;Satern et al, 1989;Regimbal et al, 1992). It was not until the rise of formalized modified sport programs, which have predominately been developed based on intuitive reasoning rather than empirical evidence, that we have seen an exponential increase in the number of studies investigating scaling sport.…”

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Designing Junior Sport to Maximize Potential: The Knowns, Unknowns, and Paradoxes of Scaling Sport

Buszard

Farrow

Reid³

2020

Front. Psychol.

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In this mini-review, we draw attention to an important yet relatively untapped topic in the developmental pathway-the design of junior sport so that it appropriately matches the functional capacities of children. Junior sport is a regular weekend activity for many children across the world, yet many will be required to prematurely play on a field or with equipment that is designed for adults. Herein lies an opportunity for sport administrators to nurture children's development in sport by appropriately manipulating the rules and dimensions of the game. The aim of this mini-review is to (1) draw attention to the value of scaling junior sport, (2) highlight paradoxes within the current scaling sport literature, and (3) emphasize a way forward for junior sport research. If we are genuine in our endeavor to tailor sports experiences for children, more sophisticated approaches to scaling those experiences are a must.

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“…4. Each player should perform all the previously established movements in a random order to prevent the influence of possible accumulated fatigue during the test (30), as is common in other tests that involve the continuous performance of different motor behaviors (10,36). That is, the sequence of movements should be different for all the players.…”

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Time-Motion Analysis Procedure in Team Sports

López

Arias

Marín

et al. 2014

Strength &Amp; Conditioning Journal

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Basketball Size as Related to Children's Preference, Rated Skill, and Scoring

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Scaling the Equipment and Play Area in Children’s Sport to improve Motor Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review

Scaling the Equipment and Play Area in Children’s Sport to improve Motor Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review

Designing Junior Sport to Maximize Potential: The Knowns, Unknowns, and Paradoxes of Scaling Sport

Time-Motion Analysis Procedure in Team Sports

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