Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as emergent phenomena which self-organise under interacting constraints.
This book is the first to bring together experts studying complex systems in the context of sport from across the world to collate core theoretical ideas, current methodologies and existing data into one comprehensive resource. It offers new methods of analysis for investigating representative complex sport movements and actions at an individual and team level, exploring the application of methodologies from the complexity sciences in the context of sports performance and the organization of sport practice.
Complex Systems in Sport is important reading for any advanced student or researcher working in sport and exercise science, sports coaching, kinesiology or human movement.
Preface Section 1: Theoretical Bases for Understanding Complex Systems
in Sport
Chapter 1: Basic Notions in the Science of Complex Systems and
Nonlinear Dynamics
Chapter 2: Coordination Dynamics and Cognition
Chapter 3:
Why Coordination Dynamics is Relevant for Studying Sport Performance
Chapter
4: Psychobiological Integration During Exercise Performed Until Exhaustion
Section 2: Methodologies and Techniques for Data Analyses in Investigating
Complex Systems in Sport
Chapter 5: Nonlinear Time Series Methods for
Analyzing Behavioral Sequences
Chapter 6: Interpersonal Coordination
Tendencies Induce Functional Synergies Through Co-Adaptation Processes in
Team Sports
Chapter 7: The Measurement of Space and Time in Evolving Sport
Phenomena
Chapter 8: Self-Organizing Maps and Cluster Analysis in Elite and
Sub-Elite Athletic Performance
Chapter 9: Single Camera Analyses in Studying
Pattern Forming Dynamics of Player Interactions in Team Sports
Chapter 10:
Using Virtual Environments to Study Interactions in Sport Performance
Chapter
11: Methods of Measurement in Studying Team Sports as Dynamical Systems
Chapter 12: Team Sports as Dynamical Systems Part 3a: Complexity Sciences and
Sport Performance
Chapter 13: Ecological Dynamics as A Framework for Notation
Analysis
Chapter 14: Talent Development and Expertise in Sport
Chapter 15:
Creativity in Sport and Dance: A constraints based soft-assembly of action.
Part 3b: Complexity Sciences and Training for Sport
Chapter 16: Variability
in Neurobiological Systems and Training
Chapter 17: Individual Pathways of
Change in Motor Learning and Development
Chapter 18: A Constraints-Based
Approach to the Acquisition of Expertise in Outdoor Adventure Sports
Chapter
19: Skill Acquisition and Representative Task Design
Keith Davids is Professor of Motor Control and Head of the School of Human Movement Studies at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Robert Hristovski is Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Republic of Macedonia.
Duarte Araújo is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human Kinetics at Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Natalia Balague Serre is Professor of Exercise Physiology in the INEFC at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Chris Button is Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Pedro Passos is Assistant Professor of Motor Control in the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
