Decisive factors in Sailing Performance: Literature review
The aims of the present study were: to review, identify and analyse the research studies which have investigated the influential factors in sailing performance and to determine which of them are most important. The data were obtained from an analysis carried out in ten different databases, using the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) |
| Repositorio: | RIUCAM. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ucam.edu:10952/6255 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10952/6255 https://doi.org/10.12800/ccd.v7i20.58 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Rendimiento Regata Regatista Regatta Sailor Performance |
| Sumario: | The aims of the present study were: to review, identify and analyse the research studies which have investigated the influential factors in sailing performance and to determine which of them are most important. The data were obtained from an analysis carried out in ten different databases, using the words “sail”, “sailing”, and “sailor” as search descriptors in scientific articles. The search included those articles that contain these key words in the title or abstract, limiting the investigation to the period between 1950 and 2011. The articles analysed in this review were those regarding physical, tactical, technical, psychological, and decision-making characteristics of sailors which directly affect their performance. From the analysed articles, 54% refer to physical characteristics, which were the most studied factor, followed by technique at 22% and decision making at 14%. Strategy (5%) and psychology (3%) are the two aspects that were least investigated. In conclusion, sailors from each sailing class need different physical and/or physiological features. In competitive sailing there are different types of boats that demand various types of effort by the sailor, which is why knowledge of their specific physical and physiological features for each type of vessel is necessary. Apart from the differences in conditional physical abilities needed for each type, there are other determining factors for performance in this sport, such as stimuli perception and decision making, which are considered to a lesser degree in the analysed studies |
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