ABSTRACT
Sports performance analysis is interdisciplinary in nature and defies accurate (or unambiguous) definition. This said, the research presented in this handbook stems largely from previous empirical investigations of sports performance with a view on providing objective description of sports behaviour action variables in practice and/or competition. The aim of performance analysis is twofold: to advance scientific understanding and to assist sports practice by providing the coaching process with augmented information. The process of labelling and recording the identified action variables was commonly referred to as ‘notation’, influenced by earlier developments in dance notation by Rudolf Laban, resulting then in sports notation analysis in reference to this method. In short, sports notation analysis is the predecessor of sports performance analysis.
