Furley Philip, Dörr Jannik, Loffing Florian
a Institute for Training and Computer Science in Sport , German Sport University , Cologne , Germany.
b Institute of Sport Science , University of Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany.
Laterality. 2018 Nov;23(6):629-642. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2018.1433192. Epub 2018 Feb 1.
The aim of the present study was to test if lateral preferences of surfers are associated with behaviour and performance depending on the direction of a breaking wave. We hypothesized that wave direction and surf stance interact in creating favourable or debilitative performance demands as surfers are either facing the wave (frontside) or the wave is breaking in the back of the surfers (backside). Study 1 was an online survey collecting self-report data of recreational surfers (n = 394). In Study 2, we analysed all wave scores (n = 2,552) and laterality of professional surfers during the season of 2014. Study 1 demonstrated that recreational surfers preferred surfing frontside and described themselves as more skilful when surfing frontside as this is facilitative for picking up visual information. Study 2 did not provide clear evidence that professional surfers on average scored higher during contests when surfing frontside, but when professional surfers had a choice of surfing frontside vs. backside, they were more likely to surf frontside. We discuss the diverging findings between Study 1 and Study 2 from the "circumvention-of-limits" argumentation within the expertise literature as professional surfers most likely have acquired skills allowing them to compensate for debilitative individual and environmental circumstances.
本研究的目的是测试冲浪者的侧向偏好是否与行为和表现相关，具体取决于破浪的方向。我们假设，当冲浪者面对海浪（正面）或海浪在冲浪者身后破浪（背面）时，浪的方向和冲浪姿势会相互作用，从而产生有利或不利的表现要求。研究1是一项在线调查，收集了休闲冲浪者的自我报告数据（n = 394）。在研究2中，我们分析了2014赛季职业冲浪者的所有浪分（n = 2552）和偏好侧。研究1表明，休闲冲浪者更喜欢正面冲浪，并表示自己在正面冲浪时更有技巧，因为这有助于获取视觉信息。研究2没有提供明确证据表明职业冲浪者在比赛中正面冲浪时平均得分更高，但当职业冲浪者可以选择正面冲浪还是背面冲浪时，他们更有可能选择正面冲浪。我们从专业技能文献中的“规避限制”论点来讨论研究1和研究2之间的不同发现，因为职业冲浪者很可能已经获得了技能，使他们能够弥补个人和环境方面的不利因素。
