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Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh
No full textIngemar Lindh's research on the principles of collective improvisation and performance conceived as process announce an important development in the 20th-century tradition of the actor's work. After early studies with Étienne Decroux and working collaborations with Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, and Yves Lebreton, Lindh founded the first laboratory theatre in Sweden in 1971, the Institutet för Scenkonst. His practice of collective improvisation is viewed in light of postdramatic concerns such as its resistance to fixed scores, directorial montage, and choreography as an organizing principle
UVODNIK
No full textDear friends,
We are entering into the 7th year of publishing our journal. Up until this issue, 91 original scientific articles and 6 review articles have been published. With this issue (17th) we cross the threshold of 100 published articles which is quite a significant number for a highly specialized journal. For this year it is our plan again to publish 20 articles. Our journal has been recently entered into the ErihPlus data base for humanities and social sciences. The process of evaluation took more than half a year but was successfully completed.
Just after we published last issue, sad news came from Brazil. Our friend, who dedicated his life to gymnastics and science, John H. Salmela passed away. In his memory his friends Natalie Durand-Bush, Jean Côté, Gordon Bloom wrote John H. Salmela, Ph.D, Celebration of life.
International Scientific Conference: Sport, Health & Education – Complementary Approach to Gymnastics, held 18 -20 June 2015 at Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport in Poland, would like to welcome all our readers. For more information please check our next pages or visit their home page http://www.v4gymnastics.awfis.net/.
The first article in the current issue is by Pia M. Vinken (Germany). She explores short term effects of elastic taping on gymnast\u27s performance. Please take note and transfer her results to practice: for healthy gymnasts, taping has no use.
The second article is also medical in content. It was written by Greek Italian authors Paschalis Kirialanis, George Dallas, Allessandra Di Cagno and Giovanni Fiorilli and deals with knee injuries at the landing and take-off phases. Most common causes of injury seem to be landings in floor exercises and take-offs in vaulting.
The third article is again from Germany. Damian Jeraj and Thomas Heinen conducted a research of coaches manual guidance techniques. They discovered that timing is much more important than the angle or the force the coach uses.
The forth article by Petr Hedbávný and Miriam Kalichová of the Czech Republic looks at how to optimize velocity on Yurchenko vault. As it is currently performed by both man and women it may be interesting to coaches of artistic gymnastics.
In this issue we have another article from Asia (two articles by authors from China have already been published): more specifically, from Iran, where Mahammad Mehrtash, Hadi Rohani, Esmail Farzaneh and Rasoul Nasiri monitored effects of six months of specific aerobic gymnastics training on motor abilities of 10-12-year-old boys.
The sixth article is about judging and is contributed by the author of these lines who conducted a research study on reliability and validity of spectators judging along with professional judges. The results are surprising and show that it may be possible to include spectators into the judging process.
The seventh article is a review of book \u27Science of Gymnastics\u27 written by German authors Damian Jeraj, Linda Hennig and David Schmidt-Maaß. In previous issues we presented lists of new books on the market; this issue features our first book review.
Finally, Anton Gajdoš prepared for Short Historical Notes II a memo about three excellent gymnasts: Larisa Latynina, Vera Časlavska and Viktor Čukarin.
Just to remind you, if you quote the Journal: its abbreviation on the Web of Knowledge is SCI GYMNASTICS J. I wish you pleasant reading and a lot of inspiration for new research projects and articles.
Ivan Čuk, Editor-in-Chie
Parental burnout across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies worldwide. The heightened levels of stress that accompanied the crisis were also expected to affect parenting in many families. Since it is known that high levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to a condition that has severe consequences for health and wellbeing, parental burnout, we examined whether the prevalence of parental burnout in 26 countries (9923 parents; 75% mothers; mean age 40) increased during COVID-19 compared to few years before the pandemic. In most (but not all) countries, analyses showed a significant increase in the prevalence of parental burnout during the pandemic. The results further revealed that next to governmental measures (e.g., number of days locked down, home-schooling) and factors at the individual and family level (e.g., gender, number of children), parents in less (versus more) indulgent countries suffered more from parental burnout. The findings suggest that stricter norms regarding their parenting roles and duties in general and during the pandemic in particular might have increased their levels of parental burnout
