The Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress

and

The Third World Congress of  Science and Racket Sports

 

 

 

To be held at

National Institute of Sport, Paris, France 

May 17- 19th, 2003

 

 

 

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

 

 

WELCOME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The joint Congresses of The International Table Tennis Federation and The World Commission of Sports Science (Racket Sports) will be held at INSEP (National Institute of Sport), Paris.   The meeting will begin on Saturday morning 17th May and end on Monday afternoon on the 19th May, 2003.

 

Racket sports are attractive at both the competitive and recreational level but  pose many challenges due to the physical demands of performance as well as the injuries that can occur to participants. Because of these challenges, racket sports are of great interest to sports scientists, physicians, therapists, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches. 

 

Also of interest to racket sports is the effect of equipment design, playing surfaces, shoes and other interfaces between the player and the game.  With new technology, sports evolve in new and different ways, perhaps requiring different training methods, and perhaps causing different injuries. 

 

This Congresses will be run jointly and are organized under the auspices of the International Table Tennis Federation and the World Commission of Science and Sports (a working group of ICSSPE).  The Congresses will provide up-to-date information on current applications of sports science to the different racket sports (badminton,  table tennis, tennis, squash and other racket games), together with the opportunity to share ideas across disciplines in an effort to better understand the science of racket sports. Exhibitions and workshops will provide the participant an opportunity to see the practical application of ideas whenever possible. 

 

 

Who should attend ?

The Congresses aim to bring together those with an interest in current developments and application of scientific principles to racket sports and will include sports scientists, researchers,  racket sport coaches, therapists, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and others who may be interested in the science of racket sports. 

 

 

 

Organizing Committee

 

Michel Jacquet (FFTT)

Jean-Francois Kahn (ITTF Sports Science Committee)

Adrian Lees (World Commission of Science and Sports)

Gilbert Liegeois (FFTT)

Christian Palierne (INSEP)

 

 

Scientific Committee

 

Jeff Chandler, Marshall University, Huntington, USA

Jean-Francois Kahn, Faculty of Medicine, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Adrian Lees, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Gilbert Liegeois, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon, France

Bernard Maton, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France

Ian Maynard, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Hubert Ripoll, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Marseilles University, France

Carole Seve, French Table Tennis Association

 

 

Congress themes

Age issues related to racket play

Biomechanics

Children in racket play

Coaching

Doping

Ergonomics

Equipment design

Expertise in racket sports

Fitness testing

Immunology

Management

Match analysis

Medical aspects of racket sports

Nutrition

Physiology

Players’ adaptation to rules changes

Psychology

Racket design and performance

Selection and talent identification

Skills and skill analysis in racket sports

Social science aspects

Stress

Training

Women in racket sports

 

 

Environment / court design and performance

Sociology / economics / development

The racket sports professional / coaching

 

Forms of presentations

 

·         Guest speakers

·         Podium presentations

·         Poster presentations

·         Workshops

 

Conference language

 

The official language of the conference is English.  No simultaneous translation facilities are provided by the congress.

 

 

Congress dates

 

First announcement and call for papers     March, 2002

Second announcement                          1st September, 2002

Deadline for receipt of abstracts             2nd January, 2003

Notification to authors                           1st February, 2003

Deadline for receipt of manuscripts          1st April, 2003

 

 

 

Call for ABSTRACTS  

 

Abstracts for presentation are currently being accepted.  Abstract topics are invited on any of the Congress themes or on any of the basic or applied sciences related to the science of racket sports

 

Abstracts should be no more than one A4 page in length (unjustified, typed in Times New Roman 12 point font, single spaced) in English.  Diagrams and references should be reduced to a minimum with full reference details given alphabetically at the end. Sample abstract layout is available of the Congress Web site.  Each submission should be original work that has not been previously published.  The scientific committee will review abstracts prior to acceptance.  They will be grouped thematically either in free communications or poster sessions, or as related to invited speaker presentations. 

 

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.  Those meeting the requirements of the Journal of Sports Sciences will be published in a special issue of that journal. A second publication, either a book or papers in the Journal of Sports Science  will be published after the conference. Consequently manuscripts will be required from those presenters whose abstracts are accepted. 

 

 

Endorsed by

 

International Table Tennis Federation

World Commission of Sports Science

 

 

 

Travel

 

Participants will be met at the airports by the WTTC organizing committee

 

 

 

Further Information:

 

Please contact the Congress Organiser by email: kahn@ccr.jussieu.fr

or visit the Congress Web site www.ittf.com/ then choose committees

 

 

The World Commission of Science and sports: www.wcss.org.uk