2019 Volume 33 Issue 1 Pages 21-30
This study uses an ideographic questionnaire based on a philosophical concept-phenomenology- to interpret athletes' individual viewpoints and integrates these viewpoints into a performance analysis. The role of researchers specializing in performance analysis is twofold: (1) to clarify scientific knowledge; (2) to facilitate knowledge transfer. In the first role, researchers focus on the performances of a large number of elite athletes and identify factors that enable high performance. In the second, researchers transfer scientific knowledge through the publication of papers in science journals. The popularization of performance analysis has recently also led a large number of researchers to examine the role of personal support through performance analysis. In these cases, researchers focus not on general viewpoints and knowledge but on each athlete's individual analysis viewpoint. Here scientific knowledge transfer bears on each athlete's perspective. However, how researchers should assess athletes' performances through athletes' individual analysis viewpoint has yet to be clarified. This study answers this question using an ideographic approach based on phenomenology, focusing on one elite high jumper (an Olympic and World Indoor Championships medalist) and exploring his jump performance through his individual viewpoint.
