Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №4 2017, pp.20-22

PhD, Associate Professor  A.V. Kornev¹
Dr.Hab., Professor M.A. Pravdov^1
1Russian State Social University, Moscow

The article offers a comprehensive analysis of the modern goalball techniques and tactics based on the understanding that due theoretical and practical provisions need to be put in place for the education, training and competitive processes in the sport disciplines of the Winter and Summer Paralympic Game programs, with the team sports for blind and vision-deficient athletes (including goalball and B1 football) being no exclusion. Analyses of the modern goalball techniques and tactics will be designed in the context of the urgent need in due theoretical and practical provisions for the training and competitive processes in the relevant team sport disciplines.
Modern team sport actions and players’ skills are highly versatile, individualised and difficult for mastering being largely driven by the game tactics and techniques that evolve within certain frame conditions (including the rules of the game, equipment and outfits, refereeing service etc.) that are largely interrelated.
Tactical training in modern goalball implies every player and team on the whole being highly fit for and efficient in the individual, group and team actions. Individual actions are dominated by the ball handling and throwing skills. Group tactics imply the highly coordinated actions of two plus players; and the team tactics are referred to as the harmonic team interactions on the whole.
Technical training process of the vision-deficient and blind athletes is interpreted as the game techniques mastering process. The higher is the technical performance of a goalball player the higher are his/her chances and opportunities for demonstration of a successful, creative and appealing game.
The article offers an analysis of the final games of the 2014 World Goalball Championship for blind and partially sighted athletes with a special emphasis on the gender-specific variations of the practical game techniques and tactics demonstrated by the top-ranking national teams plus the model performance characteristics of some teams and individual players.

Keywords: game techniques, game tactics, goalball, adaptive sport.

References

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