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7th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps forward : proceedings
It is our pleasure to greet you on behalf of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb. Quite a number of
significant anniversaries in this year are related to sport, physical education and kinesiology in Croatia. The most important
anniversary is the 55th birthday of the College of Physical Culture/Faculty of Physical Culture/Faculty of Kinesiology
establishment in 1959. However, the tradition of physical education teachers’ education in Croatia is much longer than
that. Namely, in 1874, the Croatian Falcon (Hrvatski sokol) was founded and in 1894, first course for gymnastic teachers
was organised as the first higher education course in the field of kinesiology in Croatia. Along with these important
anniversaries, this year we are marking the 17th birthday of our Conference on kinesiology, dear Reader, and you are one
of the most important reasons why is this so. From the first Conference in Dubrovnik in 1997 up nowadays, many changes
in our science have occurred as well as in the practice of physical exercise and sports along with innumerable changes in
political and social dimensions of modern life. However, we are deeply convinced that one thing has remained unchanged;
that is the passion for investigation and knowledge acquisition, the need for new discoveries and love for kinesiology as
the main field of our research. Also, we are assured that our ideas about the conference as a meeting point of distinguished
scientists, leading researchers in different fields of our science and young investigators have become reality.
We expect discussions and exchange of ideas that should result, as they have before, in new research ideas, insights,
and research teams and projects the eventual outcome of which would be further advances in kinesiology and in cognate
and adjacent scientific areas. The Conference will work under the motto “Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps
forward” in usual plenary and parallel sessions addressing ten comprehensive kinesiological topics: adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing; adapted physical activity and kinesitherapy; biology and medicine of sport and exercise;
biomechanics and motor control; physical education; kinesiological (sports) recreation; kinesiology of top-level sport;
management of sport; kinesiology and social sciences (sociology, psychology, history, philosophy) and kinesiology in
physical conditioning. Certain areas will be addressed at the Conference for the first time, like adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing. All the papers that have got positive reviews, performed by at least two respectable referees,
are published in these proceedings. The best papers, so recognized by the peer reviewers, will be published in the journal
Kinesiology supplement. Two significant satellite symposiums are going to be held during this year Conference under
the titles: University Sport and Health Kinesiology. Both symposia are aiming at provoking experts from these areas to
find solutions and answers to recent problems in these specific fields
From the very beginning, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts has been giving its high patronage to
the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of different areas in science. We are
proud to have partners and cooperating institutions like Beijing Sports University (China), Faculty of Sport Studies
Masaryk University, Brno (the Czech Republic), Science and Research Centre, University of Primorska (Slovenia) and
Lithuanian Sports University. Also, our conference is supported by a number of important organisations in the field of
kinesiology such as: the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), International Association for Physical Education in
Higher Education (AIESEP), International Federation of Physical Education (FIEP), and International Network of Sport
and Health Sciences (INSHS).
This year the assembly of kinesiologists from 32 countries will discuss diverse aspects of a variety of kinesiological
issues presented in 220 papers and abstracts written by 514 authors. The Proceedings and Abstract Book is a reminder of
the research findings accomplished in the field of kinesiology, or sport sciences, or kinetics, or kinanthropology throughout
the past three years. The presented papers are a basis and a probable starting point for future findings and inferences since
they cover a wide range of anthropological (understood in the widest sense), methodological and didactic investigations
in the areas of physical education, competitive sport, kinesiological recreation, and kinesitherapy.
We wish to express exceptional gratitude to all the authors of papers, reviewers, conference participants, members
of the Organising and Programme Committee, Section Editors and technical support staff for their contributions, time
and effort inbuilt in quality of the 7th Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings.
Looking forward to meeting you again at the 8th International Conference on Kinesiology in 2017.
Organising Committe
7th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps forward : proceedings
It is our pleasure to greet you on behalf of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb. Quite a number of
significant anniversaries in this year are related to sport, physical education and kinesiology in Croatia. The most important
anniversary is the 55th birthday of the College of Physical Culture/Faculty of Physical Culture/Faculty of Kinesiology
establishment in 1959. However, the tradition of physical education teachers’ education in Croatia is much longer than
that. Namely, in 1874, the Croatian Falcon (Hrvatski sokol) was founded and in 1894, first course for gymnastic teachers
was organised as the first higher education course in the field of kinesiology in Croatia. Along with these important
anniversaries, this year we are marking the 17th birthday of our Conference on kinesiology, dear Reader, and you are one
of the most important reasons why is this so. From the first Conference in Dubrovnik in 1997 up nowadays, many changes
in our science have occurred as well as in the practice of physical exercise and sports along with innumerable changes in
political and social dimensions of modern life. However, we are deeply convinced that one thing has remained unchanged;
that is the passion for investigation and knowledge acquisition, the need for new discoveries and love for kinesiology as
the main field of our research. Also, we are assured that our ideas about the conference as a meeting point of distinguished
scientists, leading researchers in different fields of our science and young investigators have become reality.
We expect discussions and exchange of ideas that should result, as they have before, in new research ideas, insights,
and research teams and projects the eventual outcome of which would be further advances in kinesiology and in cognate
and adjacent scientific areas. The Conference will work under the motto “Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps
forward” in usual plenary and parallel sessions addressing ten comprehensive kinesiological topics: adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing; adapted physical activity and kinesitherapy; biology and medicine of sport and exercise;
biomechanics and motor control; physical education; kinesiological (sports) recreation; kinesiology of top-level sport;
management of sport; kinesiology and social sciences (sociology, psychology, history, philosophy) and kinesiology in
physical conditioning. Certain areas will be addressed at the Conference for the first time, like adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing. All the papers that have got positive reviews, performed by at least two respectable referees,
are published in these proceedings. The best papers, so recognized by the peer reviewers, will be published in the journal
Kinesiology supplement. Two significant satellite symposiums are going to be held during this year Conference under
the titles: University Sport and Health Kinesiology. Both symposia are aiming at provoking experts from these areas to
find solutions and answers to recent problems in these specific fields
From the very beginning, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts has been giving its high patronage to
the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of different areas in science. We are
proud to have partners and cooperating institutions like Beijing Sports University (China), Faculty of Sport Studies
Masaryk University, Brno (the Czech Republic), Science and Research Centre, University of Primorska (Slovenia) and
Lithuanian Sports University. Also, our conference is supported by a number of important organisations in the field of
kinesiology such as: the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), International Association for Physical Education in
Higher Education (AIESEP), International Federation of Physical Education (FIEP), and International Network of Sport
and Health Sciences (INSHS).
This year the assembly of kinesiologists from 32 countries will discuss diverse aspects of a variety of kinesiological
issues presented in 220 papers and abstracts written by 514 authors. The Proceedings and Abstract Book is a reminder of
the research findings accomplished in the field of kinesiology, or sport sciences, or kinetics, or kinanthropology throughout
the past three years. The presented papers are a basis and a probable starting point for future findings and inferences since
they cover a wide range of anthropological (understood in the widest sense), methodological and didactic investigations
in the areas of physical education, competitive sport, kinesiological recreation, and kinesitherapy.
We wish to express exceptional gratitude to all the authors of papers, reviewers, conference participants, members
of the Organising and Programme Committee, Section Editors and technical support staff for their contributions, time
and effort inbuilt in quality of the 7th Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings.
Looking forward to meeting you again at the 8th International Conference on Kinesiology in 2017.
Organising Committe