sports science

COVER STORY The flood disaster in June 2013 caused devastating damage, especially in northern, southern and eastern Germany. Water levels in the Saale of up to 8.10 meters or even almost 13 meters in the Danube caused masses of water to overflow their banks and caused extensive damage to property and extensive evacuations from parts of the city. In addition to private households and business owners, a large number of tennis clubs in Germany were also existentially affected by the...

COVER STORY The tennis surface from Sportas promises outdoor courts that can be played all year round and indoor conditions like a classic clay court. In the meantime, the tennis surface has been installed in 14 European countries as well as in China and Australia. Sportas has developed Tennis Force. RETURNAL asked what makes this new rubber so special and spoke to clubs that have decided on the product. NEWS 1. Women's power in Styria - At the general meeting...

COVER TOPIC Tennis & School. The cooperation with a school can be seen as one of THE possibilities to discover talents and bring new youngsters into the club. Many opportunities for implementation and support pave the way for tennis clubs to go to school - and for students to join the club. NEWS 1. After a successful premiere, the future lies in Berlin - Review of the 25th DTB/VDT Federal Congress 2. When moaning is very (dis)nervating - grunting in...

COVER STORY Botch, tricks and rip-offs by tennis service companies. Anyone who entrusts the spring repairs to a specialist company rightly expects professional performance. However, if you end up with the wrong company, you will instead receive bad service, unskilled work and botched places. NEWS 1. Top through breadth - Karl-Georg Altenburg is the new President of the Deutscher Tennis Bundes 2. Farewell TeXX, welcome performance classes - The new binding point and rating system in the DTB 3. 24...

One is generally more persuaded by the reasons one has found oneself than by those which have arisen in the minds of others."  - Blaise Pascal The active examination of the laws of nature, combined with physical knowledge, offers a wealth of learning opportunities for both physics and physical education classes. This can be implemented in a lesson that deals with the topic of sailing across subject boundaries. In this book, possibilities for interdisciplinary teaching are shown and a sample...

Regular physical activity is the most important influencing factor affecting a person's health and well-being and is considered an essential prerequisite for a health-oriented upbringing of children and adolescents. In order to generate a comprehensive awareness of physical activity and health, effective training programs are necessary. These are to be used above all where all children and young people can be reached with a range of physical activities - at school. Based on previous fitness training models, this book is...

content Mountain hiking as an option at school is not yet a very common activity, although hiking can be traced back thousands of years. Hiking days at school often do not take place as classic “hikes”, but are used as general days out to museums or cinemas. Exercise in nature is particularly important for young people who grow up in a media world that is far removed from nature and spend many hours of their school days sitting.Based on this...

Doing top-class sport and studying at the same time involves a high personal risk and seems almost impossible under the current structures and conditions in Germany. An immense expenditure of time is necessary in order to be able to achieve top-class sporting successes and also achievements in a course of study. Since competitive sport is also practiced in a phase of life in which studying later professional success and social security are influenced by studying, many top athletes with an...

Competitive sport, state security and doping are the terms that dominated the public and scientific discussion about sport in the GDR for a long time. This work on mass sport breaks with the prevailing patterns of interpretation in several respects. On the one hand, with the area of ​​non-performance-oriented sport, it turns to a research field that is less well known to the public. On the other hand, with the application of the everyday historical approach of the "participatory dictatorship"...