...During a tennis match games are won or lost on the effectiveness of the serve. The serve acts as the start of each point and when utilised correctly can provide the offensive advantage, making the serve one of the most important skills a tennis player can acquire. The foremost purpose of the serve is to successfully hit the ball into the opponents serve box. In terms of offence the serve lets the player assert control of the ball, dictating as to how their opponents must counteract while minimising the reaction time due to the immense amounts of velocity delivered behind the ball if done correctly. There are many different variations of the serve such has utilising a slice technique in order to cause the ball have topspin which adds to the...
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...Body Kinematics on Tennis Serve Speed." Journal of Human Kinetics 40 (2014): 21-28. SPORTDiscuss with Full Text. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. Purpose One of the most important shots in tennis is the serve. The importance of the serve lies in its accuracy and speed which directly relates to the outcome of winning tennis matches. This is one of the most difficult strokes in the game to master because it requires the use, and coordination of the trunk, upper and lower extremities all in a kinetic chain movement. Because it is reported as such a hard shot to hit, this study was done...
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...quite necessary to elevation how importance of existing facilities towards guests and the current performance of those facilities in the hotels. The Griffith University Hotel, being operating for a relative long period in the service industry, has established its good reputation and occupied a certain part of market shares. While, it still suffers from threads from low priced hotels and other rivals who are continuingly promoting hotel environment and service. In order to maintain the current volume of guests and probably increase it, the examination is conducted to deal with the competitive pressures. Currently, there are seventeen categories of facilities utilized in the city braches of the Griffith University to serve customers, such as family restaurant, tennis court and express check out in-room cable television, express check-out, a-la-carte restaurant, free daily newspaper and the swimming pool. Generally, there are...
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...Maksimov Nickolai Linguistic representation of TIME in sportscasts Today popularity of sports is consistently growing. Sport has become one of the spheres of mass culture, it attracts attention of people from all around the globe. With the evolution of television, the internet and every other communication technology it provides more and more people with an opportunity to watch sports of different kinds and to feel themselves involved into action. Moreover, big money is being invested in sports. Sportsmen and sportswomen are becoming popular icons along with musicians, actors and politicians. On the whole we can say that today sport is absolutely ubiquitous and can influence almost each sphere of the social life. There is no surprise that the development of sports industry goes hand in hand with the progress of the events coverage system that allows any person (not necessarily being indulged in sports) to watch, understand and enjoy competitions. In terms of popularizing sports and making it understandable for people the work of sports commentators plays one of the primary roles. It is fair to say, that today sports reportage has shaped as a separate speech genre which requires special attention and has its own specific features and functions. Every speech genre entails the use of certain language and speech means in order to fulfil its functions; sports reportage cannot be counted as an exception. In the presented research work we tried to study the ways of...
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...process that is a way to add new behaviors to an individual’s current repertoire (Cooper, et. al, 2007). Because Brenda currently has a tennis ball serving behavior, it is far easier to improve on the skills she already possesses than start from a place where no tennis-related behaviors exist. Additionally, often with chaining, when there is an already existing baseline performance, there is likely a higher chance of success and motivation; Brenda enjoys tennis and this may serve as a strong motivation and reinforcement for improvement, increasing the speed and probability that she will learn in this way faster than using other acquisition options available. Chaining is the way specific sequences of stimuli and responses link to form new performances, through the delivery of positive reinforcement. Each response in a chain creates a stimulus change that serves as a conditioned reinforcer for the response that produced it and as a discriminative stimulus (SD) for the next response in the chain simultaneously (Cooper, et. al, 2007).”Reinforcement produced by the final response in the chain maintains the effectiveness of the stimulus changes that serve as conditioned reinforcers and SDs or each response in the chain.”(Cooper, et. al, 2007, p.435). This is true of all the links in the chain except with the first and last stimulus, in which the stimulus serves only as the SD or as the conditioned reinforcer (Cooper, et. al, 2007). A reinforcer is something used to motivate a learner to complete...
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...Textual Analysis for “Throwing Like a Girl” The article begins by remembering the opening of the World Series on April 4th, 1994. The President at the time, Bill Clinton, threw out the first pitch in Cleveland while his wife First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton threw out the first pitch in Chicago. Mrs. Clinton was the first First Lady in history to throw out a first pitch at a major league baseball game. Instead of writing about this historical event, however, reporters across the country ripped into the First Lady’s form and how she “throws like a girl”. The phrase “throwing like a girl” has become an offensive, almost derogatory term that shames some women and implies they do not possess the same athleticism as men. Fallows suggests that the answer to why they throw so differently must be more than just being a woman. Some people believe a man and a woman's shoulder are hinged differently, and that is the reason for the difference in the way...
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...Abstract Although businesses are formed to fulfill various needs in the market, the ultimate goal is to make a profit (Porter, 1985, 12). To realize the profits that the company may be targeting, sales have to occur. The transfer of the goods or services from the manufacturer or distributor to the consumer is referred to as a sale. It is in this regard that companies world over have set aside huge budgets for the marketing and sales divisions. The concept of marketing has evolved from being a simple process to a complex system that involves many stakeholders. However, at the end of the day, the concept remains the same. This is because it is a process that seeks to attract customers and retain them. It also seeks to deliver the products as and when required by the market. This study seeks to establish how several factors affect the ideals of marketing. One of them is the consumer motivation followed by the market perceptions of a given product. Emotional drivers also play a significant role in the determination of a given marketing campaign. The study will look at the sport clothing market and will seek to analyze it along the factors mentioned above. Introduction The increased emphasis on physical fitness from many quarters has led to a significant uptake of sports and games by people from all walks of life. Traditionally, sports used to be viewed as activities reserved for a few. However, there has been a major shift where sports are being taken up for both professional...
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...Introduction Playa Dorada Tennis Club is part of a larger supply network of Playa Dorada, Inc. (PD Inc.) whose most profitable business is selling and managing real estate near their hotel and spa resorts. The tennis club focused on in the case serves as one of the many incentives for customers to vacation at or buy property from PD Inc. Douglass Hall, the tennis director has the responsibility of creating an expansion plan to address the insufficient capacity of the tennis courts. He needs to set both short-term and long-term solutions for the tennis facility and satisfy his colleagues in Marketing, Operations and Finance. One of Hall’s main challenges, in both the near and distant future, is to increase capacity utilization by smoothing the extreme peaks of demand for court space created daily and seasonally by the muggy Florida weather. The number of resort guests is expected to double, so there is a severe need to expand the current court capacity. Not only is the popularity of tennis continuing to increase, but customers are not happy with the current court capacity as they are facing difficulties in reserving court time. By forecasting court hours used/guest night per a moving average (Exhibit 1) and the demand & capacity (Exhibit 2) one can see there is a need for additional capacity. It is recommended to manage the current court capacity of the March-April 2007 season by adjusting demand, however for the peak season of 2008 four courts should be added. Short term...
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...between sleep deprivation and athletic performance and athletes should sleep very well in order to perform better athletic performance. Body 2). Many analysis show that sleep deprivation impede the athletic performance. A. People can perform better in any activities when they are in good biological rhythms and sleep is one of the most important factors in managing the biological rhythms. a. The sleep-wake rhythm is driven by the living clock and all people are set up to be awake and in good shape to exercise during the day, and to sleep and recover during the night. Thus, lack of sleep will cause to impede the sleep-wake rhythm which is related to the biological rhythms. B. Sleep is one of the factors that considered critical to human physiological and cognitive function. a. A reduction in sleep quality and quantity result in an autonomic nervous system imbalance and promoting the immune system dysfunction. Also, the sleep deprivation leads the cognitive function report slower and less accurate cognitive performance. Therefore, lack of sleep can result in negative ways in physiological and cognitive function. C. Short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive function are affected by the sleep deprivation. a. All these functions are really important for the athletic performance. Tennis players cannot serve very well because of the lack of hand-eye coordination. Also, quarterback from the football team has trouble with memorize the wide receivers’ routes. These...
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...renovated with new tennis courts, basket facilities, bbq areas, and many more amenities that will help provide the city with a sense of pride in their community. | Prepared for: Professor James Schoeck | Prepared by: Calvin M. Pitts | 10/20/2013 | | Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………… 2, 3 Scope and Purpose ………………………………………………………………………..3 Objective of Project ……………………………………………………………………....4 Project Sizing Matrix …………………………………………………………………….5, 6 Stakeholder Analysis ……………………………………………………………………..6, 7 Risk Breakdown Structure ………………………………………………………………8 Probability Impact Matrix ……………………………………………………………9, 10, 11 Risk Register ……………………………………………………………………………..13 Summary Risk Report …………………………………………………………………..14, 15 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………..16 Executive Summary Horseshoe Park and recreation center used to be a park that gave the city and its citizens of Conyers a sense of pride for their children to play and enjoy leisure activities. These activities included enrichment in life activities such as fitness, leadership events, and the promotion of sportsmanship among its members. Also Horseshoe Park provided a place for the local community to meet for picnics and fellowship meetings this interaction allowed citizens to grow and prosper together. Unfortunately over the last couple of decades the city and the park have been in decline with the weakening economy in the area, Horseshoe Park used to hold tennis classes and host...
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...Athletic HISTORY The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition. The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships. The United States also began holding an annual national competition – the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships – first held in 1876 by the New York Athletic Club.[14] Athletics became codified and standardized via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union (founded in the US in 1888) and the Union des sociétésfrançaises de sports athlétiques (founded in France in 1889). An athletics competition was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and it has been as one of the foremost competitions at the quadrennial multi-sport event ever since. Originally for men only, the 1928 Olympics saw the introduction of women's events in the athletics programme. Athletics is part of the Paralympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1960. Athletics has a very high profile during major championships, especially the Olympics, but otherwise is less popular. An international governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), was founded in 1912; it adopted its current...
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...TENNIS RECOVERY A Comprehensive Review of the Research Editors: Mark S. Kovacs, PhD Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT W. Ben Kibler, MD A United States Tennis Association Sport Science Committee Project Tennis Recovery: A Comprehensive Review of the Research Copyright © 2010 United States Tennis Association Inc. ISBN 978-0-692-00528-6 Editors: Mark S. Kovacs, Todd S. Ellenbecker, W. Ben Kibler TENNIS RECOVERY A Comprehensive Review of the Research A United States Tennis Association Sport Science Committee Project Editors: Mark S. Kovacs, PhD Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT W. Ben Kibler, MD Introduction In the last two decades, physical training and competitive opportunities have increased dramatically in junior, collegiate and professional tennis. This arose due to a multitude of factors, but much of it has stemmed from an increase in knowledge and understanding of scientifically based training programs focused on improving performance. As this focus on performance has increased, the area of recovery has received relatively limited focus. Recovery is a multi-faceted paradigm focusing on recovery from training—session to session, day to day and week to week. Recovery is also vitally important during training as well as in competition between matches and between days during multi-day tournaments. As more information is needed in the area of tennis specific recovery, the Sport Science Committee of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) sponsored an extensive evidence-based...
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... HSC |Mahadev shashtri school |Accounts, Statistics and |Gujarat State Educational |2007 |First | | | |Economics |Board | | | | SSC |Talad high school, Talad | ---- |Gujarat State Educational |2005 |First | | | | |Board | | | |Sports Profile | ➢ Trained Swimmer and Table Tennis Player ➢ Team Member Surat Sports Club ➢ Participated in All India Camel Drawing Competition ➢ Certified Course on Personality Development |Work Experience...
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...Nintendo Wii U | MK 3251 Advertising Name:Panagiotis pavlou ID:117078Instructor:Galanis Chris | Company’s history Nortec Multimedia S.A is the distributor for Greek market since 1997 according to the official page of Nintendo. In addition to the Greek market Nortec is also supplying Albania, Bulgaria and Former Yogoslav Republic of Macedonia since 2002. Except the Nintendo product line Nortec is also distributing game titles of Nordic and other software in all the above countries. Nortec Multimedia is ready to serve its customers in a very effective and efficient way. According to the official site of Nortec Multimedia<<www.nortec.gr>> the company has an established network of around 800 points of retail shops, many partners in all countries that is operating and of course the big electronic chains such as Kotsovolos or Media Markt. 1.Situation analysis 1.1 The product characteristics and the label issue In all technological products sucs as the Nintendo Wii U there is a moment that a model has to be removed from the market and replaced with a new one that is matching today’s limits in technology. This action has to take place very carefully and according to my personal opinion just when the product life cycle is ready to expire. Moreover the new console Nintendo Wii U was introduced in Europe on November 30,2012 in order to replace as I said above the predecessor which was the Nintendo Wii. This move can be translated very easily and it is done just...
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...Business-level strategy defines an organization’s approach to competing in its chosen markets Major business-level strategic management responsibilities: Direction setting Establishment & communication of mission, vision, ethics, & long-term goals of a single business unit Creation & communication of shorter-term goals & objectives Analysis of business situation Compilation & assessment of information from stakeholders, broad environment analysis, & other sources Internal resource analysis Identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, sources of sustainable competitive advantage Selection of strategy Selection of a generic approach to competition – cost leadership, differentiation, focus, or best value Selection of a strategic posture – specific strategies needed to carry out the generic strategy Management of resources Acquisition of resources &/or development of competencies leading to a sustainable competitive advantage Ensuring development of functional strategies & an appropriate organizational design (management structure) to support business strategy Development of control systems to ensure that strategies remain relevant & that the business unit continues to progress toward its goals The generic strategy types proposed by Michael Porter are perhaps the most widely used & understood A sustainable competitive advantage is related to the amount of value a firm creates for its most important stakeholder, the customer...
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