Abstract
The aim of this research was to analyze decision making of the specialist in beach handball in the framework of mixed methods, and through the observation of their actions. To do this, and distinguishing it by genre, an analysis of polar coordinates was realized using the assist and completion of this specific position as behavior criteria. A total of 24 sessions were observed with the HOISAN computer software, using an ad hoc design tool. Observation design used was nomothetic, punctual, and multidimensional. The obtained results showed significant relations between the behavior criteria and conditional behaviors (pairing), showing significant relations different for male and female categories. Significant differences were estimated statistically about the importance of the specialist in the development of the static attack in beach handball and their influence in the final result of the match, based on their greater or lesser success in decision making. In the male category it is highlighted that the specialist’s assists are not positively related to a favorable score and that the attack usually ends up in the central areas against closed defensive systems; in addition, their successful completion decisions are produced by means of launches in the central zone, also against closed defensive systems; however, in the female category, specialists’ assists lead to end the attacks in flight on the far right against open defensive systems.
Highlights
The available literature has brought to light how in collective sports there has been a progressive increase in the physical, technical and tactical demands of competition in recent decades (Carling, 2011; Sarmento et al, 2017)
The aim of this study was to analyze the decision making of beach handball players who acquire the role of specialist according to the behavior they have shown, from the framework of mixed methods
The aim has been to identify the relationships that were established between behaviors used as a criterion, those that showed their decision-making by performing assists and completions, with pairing behaviors of the selected criteria of the tool: score, defensive system of the opposing team, zone of end of the attack, player that ends, end mode and duration of the attack
Summary
The available literature has brought to light how in collective sports there has been a progressive increase in the physical, technical and tactical demands of competition in recent decades (Carling, 2011; Sarmento et al, 2017). This has generated the necessity of increasing the specific knowledge about these aspects to be able to plan training sessions properly and make a better preparation of the team (Nunes et al, 2015). Beach handball is not unaware of this situation, as shown by the evolution developed in the modality in all aspects of the game since its inception in the 1990s to the present (Morillo-Baro and Hernández-Mendo, 2015), generating the need for continuous updating and innovation in
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