SPORTS ANALYSIS IN THE ATHLETICS RACES. REALIZED BY ATHLETES WITH PHYSICAL AND VISUAL DISABILITY.

SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH

I project n º 08/UOB10/03 APARTADO 1: Scientific support, technological development and generation of knowledge applied to the high sports performance.

Person in charge of the research:
MIGUEL ÁNGEL TORRALBA. University of Barcelona

Researchers:
MARIA LUISA DE FUENTES. University of Barcelona
JOSÉ Mª PADULLÉS. INEFC Barcelona

Scholar:
DAVID UBACH.

Collaborators:
Eleuterio Antón. Federación Española de Deportes para Ciegos.
Federación Española de Deportes para Minusválidos.
Laboratorio de Biomecánica del INEF Barcelona.

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Authors: Torralba, M.A. (c00rd) Antón, E.; Blanco, A ; Chavarre, C. Codina, M.
Colection: Actividad Física Adaptada
ISBN: 84-8019-775-7
Publisher : Paidotribo

NOTE: Athletics  has been one of the most complicated sports ever.  It requires all the conditional and coordinative ability form the sport person.

This book helps educators, teachers and trainers to know athletics better, specially the kind of races in which people with sight disability participate.
In the first and second chapter, the reader is taken to the handicaps and the history of this sport. In the following chapters, it gets deeper in the general features, its educative utility, and later, the initiation, development and how to improve the techniques and approaching when training  in races, jumps and throw.
The reader will find strategies of teaching, organisation and orientation which allow him or her get deeply inside this world, always complex in the beginning, specially when we talk about competitions for disabled people.
There are also guided activities and games for entertainment in the different competitions , as well as the progressive domination of the different sports with special techniques and modifications from the usual Olympic rules .

 The authors of the book, with wide experience in the field of adapted physical activity , consider it a worth- having book especially for those who practise sport of physical activity in educative stages. It is also useful for those who work or want to work  in the field of adapted sport.