IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rpanxx/v11y2011i2p344-355.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Analysis of movement patterns and work-to-rest ratios for different panels of South African Rugby Union referees during matchrefereeing

Author

Listed:
  • J. Wilbur Kraak
  • Dawie D.J. Malan
  • H. Pieter van den Berg

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the movement patterns, heart rate recordings and work-to-rest ratios for different refereeing panels of South African Rugby Union referees during match-refereeing. The referees were monitored during play by means of a video camera in a total of 16 matches within a tournament. The frequency and duration of the different movement patterns were analysed using different functions of the Dartfish 5.5 TeamPro software package. Heart rates (HR) were recorded by a Suunto Team pack HR monitor system to determine the intensity of the movement patterns. The mean frequency of movement activities revealed a moderate practical significant difference between referee panels for jogging (d=0.51) and the mean duration indicated a moderate practical significant difference for jogging (d=0.43) and sprinting (d=0.43). The intensity of movement activities indicated a large practical significant difference for the anaerobic threshold (d=3.68) and sub-threshold (d=1.36) heart rate zones. A work-to-rest ratio of 1:4 was revealed for both referee panels during match-refereeing. The study revealed that contender panel referees completed more jogging activities and spent more time on jogging and sprinting activities than the provincial referees, and regarding intensities the contender panel referees also spent more time in low intensity heart rate zones.

Suggested Citation

  • J. Wilbur Kraak & Dawie D.J. Malan & H. Pieter van den Berg, 2011. "Analysis of movement patterns and work-to-rest ratios for different panels of South African Rugby Union referees during matchrefereeing," International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 344-355, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:344-355
    DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2011.11868554
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24748668.2011.11868554
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/24748668.2011.11868554?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:344-355. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPAN20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.