Women’s Basketball Athletes Masculinization Characteristics Correlation Analysis Research

The successful hosting of the29th Beijing Olympic Games and the16th FIB A World Championship for Women witnessed that the world women’s basketball has been improved a lot in technique and strategy, the switch of attack and defence is more and more fast, the body resistance is stronger, the defence of the team and the attack of star players are strengthened, the trend of masculinization of world women’s basketball team is especially more evident, making women’s basketball more splendid to watch. The structure of the world women’s basketball tends to be in a stable state in which the USA women’s basketball continues to hold No. One spot. However, the fast rise of women’s basketball from Australia, Russia, and Spain brings big threat to the USA women’s basketball. With the competitive development of basketball, Olympic Games and FIB A World Championship have always been playing the role of basketball gathering which represents the hightest level of basketball. These two grand gatherings bring the most excellent teams in the world together, in which the masculinization style with fierce defence and aggressive playing is widely used in world women’s basketball strong teams. The masculinization of women’s basketball has become an inexorable trend for women’s basketball development, and the masculinization style for women basketball players has become a new wind vane. In the year of2008, taking the edge of home match, Chinese women’s basketball took the fourth place in the29th Beijing Olympic Games, turning the world on. However, in the16th FIB A World Championship in2010, Chinese women’s basketball only took the13th place which was the worst result since China women’s basketball team took part in world competition. In the world competition arena, Chinese women’s basketball team with other teams from second and third class exposes more and more evident weakness. It’s not difficult to find out, through the sports event of Olympic Games and FIBA World Championship, that the overall level of world women’s basketball is continuously improving, but the gap between basketball team of world-class and second or third class is distinct. The world-class teams led by the USA always keep the playing way of masculinization, especially in terms with the switch of attack and defence, so as to control the beat of the match with overwhelming superiority and win the match by excellent scores. The masculinization in playing style and tactics for women’s basketball has becomes a trend, and the degree of playing with masculinization in women’s basketball players, to a great extent, determines the strength of the team. So the research on Masculinization of women’s basketball players appears of great significance. By documentation, interview with specialist, visiting investigation, video demonstration and logic comparison analysis, this thesis concludes the developmental trend of today’s world women’s basketball game, the developmental status and characteristics of women’s basketball players masculinization; based on the deep understanding and analysis of the concept of masculinization for world women’s basketball players, the thesis constructs the evaluation system for masculinization for world women’s basketball players, analyzes the the features of masculinization in different world women’s basketball strong teams, makes appraisal and comparison analysis, and finds the main factors that influence world women’s basketball players masculinization, and provides feasibility suggestions. The thesis will have great importance for the development of world women’s basketball game and great significance to improve Chinese women’s basketball team’s status in world basketball circles, and according to these factors, the following conclusions:First,08Beijing Olympic Games and the16th Czech women basketball championship teams in terms of average age and average height has little change, teams are more younger and enlarged. Beijing Olympic Games women’s basketball teams compared with Czech women basketball championship teams, the team configuration aspects have very big distinction, between the squad and the players to replace the diversified situation, tactical application variable.Second, Offensive and defensive conversion speed up is women’s basketball team athletes in the new period " masculinization " one of the most prominent features. Offensive and defensive conversion between teams greatly accelerate the speed and rhythm," masculinization " mature team to strengthen the protection of the rebounds, after get the ball faster response speed, and the success rate is higher.Third, Women’s basketball team player technology masculine style is to cater to the development trend of " masculinization ", fast and exact. Embodied in the technical movement speed and flexibility, the basket and the body of the air against odds, players more power and responsive, fast start. Shooting mode adopts the masculine shoulders shot mode, shooting is more stable, rebounding composed using screens by leaps and bounds, etc.Fourth, Offensive tactics is simple and high efficiency. Game did not appear more complex tactical coordination, more is to use common basketball game local coordination and empty roll and roll, offensive means diversity, high efficiency scores. The basket player’s tactical threat more, ground offensive rhythm is accelerated, the ball of the converting speed faster, the players without the ball number increase. Fifth, Players defensive movements are more and more fierce. Intense physical confrontation, in addition to frequent man-to-man tight defense, defensive players action more and more fierce, defensive steps more flexible and strong players "double consciousness". Positive challenge and the rim of the screens can be seen everywhere, all reflect the style of " masculinization".Sixth, Star players are prominent. In the last two world class competition, star players too prominent, outside the assure enough playing time, star players bring to the team’s core strength, especially big processing and judgment, show unusually calm, star players completely control the rhythm of the game.Seventh, The main factors influencing the women’s basketball athletes" masculinization " training factors respectively, and the social and cultural factors, athletes physiological and psychological factors.Eighth, China women’s basketball team compared with world strong teams such as the United States, Australia, China women’s basketball team players are the obvious defect. Style has not been tough enough, single attack means, the player’s ability is weak, the basket storm threatening small, less players without the ball, small through-ball less, lack of aggressiveness, the defenders, encounter the opponent’s full-court press prone to turnovers.