Rodica Prodan

• PhD Student at Babeș-Bolyai University

The purpose of this study was to examine the outcome of some tennis drills sessions on the static balance performance of young tennis players. The study was conducted for 12 months on 24 amateur tennis players (age 12 ± 2 years; body mass 47 ± 8 kg; body height 155 ± 12 cm) participating twice per week in a 2-hour tennis class. Balance performance...

The individual sport games—given their characteristics—impose constraints on behavior, constraints in relation to which some actions tend to produce good and other actions harm or at least lesser amounts of good. Therefore, in the last decades there was a lot of discussion whether certain behavior should be considered Fair Play. The dominant paradi...

The most promoted sport in the last century is considered without any hesitation to be the football game. The psychical pressure of not taking a wrong decision is far greater upon the referees than it was fifty years ago. For this reason, their continuous physical and mental preparation are of utmost importance. The purpose: This study is aimed to...

The objectives of this study target ways to make the physical education lesson more efficient with a many-sided development, with a better environment, and, at the same time to reach the goals from the curriculum. For having true and relevant results there were used approved tests like 30 m sprint and 5x10 m shuttle. In order to have the best preci...

This study had two purposes: first, to investigate the influence that different racket sizes and ball compressions had on the children’s abilities to perform backhand ground strokes from the base line and second, to evaluate their shots precision error due to inappropriate sized equipment. There was a quantitative repeated-measurements design exper...

Background . The purpose of the study was to realize the priorities in physical, technical and tactical training for junior football players. Moreover, preparing of the content was intended to optimize the use the most efficient methods and means for increasing the efficiency of speed and skill during the training and games. Objectives . Data were...

Over time, the sport team's game philosophy has evolved according to the new requirements of the game. In the overall evolution of the game and its elements, in the course of the permanent changes of orientation and accent, the physical training was an element of progress for the other factors of the training. Physical training sums up strength, sp...

The team’s conception has evolved over time according to the new requirements of the game. In the overall evolution of the game factors and of the game itself, in the course of the permanent changes of orientation and accent, the physical training was an element of progress for the other factors of the training. Some important elements of physical...

This study is aimed to answer two questions: How can we act ethically in sport? And why would we want to be ethical competitors in the first place? The starting point of the study is the conceptualization of the term Fair Play as either “respect for the rules” or “respect for the spirit of the game”, as well as by other determinants. The author an...

The individual sport games—given their characteristics—impose constraints on behavior, constraints in relation to which some actions tend to produce good and other actions harm or at least lesser amounts of good. Therefore, in the last decades there was a lot of discussion whether certain behavior should be considered Fair Play. The dominant paradi...

Problem statement: the game, considered as a form of general and motor activity, is the main instrument in the formation and development of human personality. Purpose of study: the research aims to see the degree by which movement games teaching, applied within the Romanian educational program raises the psychomotor skills of preschool children: co...

Problem statement: the game, considered as a form of general and motor activity, is the main instrument in the formation and development of human personality. Purpose of study: the research aims to see the degree by which movement games teaching, applied within the Romanian educational program raises the psychomotor skills of preschool children: co...

Psychomotor Development on Preschool Child through Movement Games Problem statement: the game, considered as a form of general and motor activity, is the main instrument in the formation and development of human personality. Purpose of study: the research aims to see the degree by which movement games teaching, applied within the Romanian education...