| In the 21st century, the development of modern athletic basketball aims at upper-air superiority, high speed, skillful resistance. And it will be the competitive game among the bigger men. At 28th Athens Olympic Games, Chinese team had the superiority over having one of the world first-rate center—Yao Ming and the second-place-height players in all the teams, but it won the team of Serbia and Montenegro Republic with an array of big height differences by a narrow margin of one point in the matches to be the eighth place in the game. The factors causing the poor performance are various. The thesis studied the tendency that the world basketball game developed to upper-air superiority. The writer observed the basketball matches at the 28th Olympic Games, then raised to develop upper-air techniques. He the big chance of the 110th Anniversary of Basketball's Entry in China held in Wuhan Physical Education Institute in November of 2005 and of that there were a certain number of athletes who excelled in upper-air techniques, such as dunking and others. He also interviewed and investigated the experts, such as Sun Minhao, and surveyed 30 excellent athletes with questionnaires. Based on the major knowledge and experts'advice, the writer defines upper-air techniques as such offensive or defensive techniques as dunking, block, relay in the air, rebound recovery and so on, which involves the athlete jumping in time according to the basketball's position in the air, and dunking the ball higher than his shoulders into or block it out of the rim after having the superiority over time and space.The writer studied the other seven national winners in the game. He compared the players'height, age and weight, the single skills in upper-air techniques, the positions of using the techniques, and the data of using them. Meanwhile, he quantitatively analyzed the main characteristics of upper-air techniques, the factors affecting the using of the techniques, and the temperament types of the athletes who... |