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The Importance of Balls Sets in Boccia Game Luis Ferreira, Rui Corredeira, Maria Adília Silva, Sergio Costa Get excepecional results in sport, at high performance level, is a constanst gold in our days. The products influence can damage the good result achived by atlhlets. So, it's crucial study how the products caracheristics and product age may influence athlets performance. Manage this two factors is fundamental. This paper pretends answer this question and evaluate the most recents sets of boccia games presented by Boccas, Handi Life Sport and Expostar companies. To evalute the various sets we used a ramp (BC3 athelet acessory) and did three sessions: inicial (new sets); sets with 2h of training; sets with 40h of training. Each session had two phases: laboratory phase and field phase. In the field phase the shots were made by ARDA athelts (Center of Rehabilitation and Cerebral Paralysis of Oporto / APPC NR - Norte).
After the analysis of the results we concluded that Boccas, Handi Life Sport and Expostar sets fullfill all ofical parameters. The Handi Life Sport balls roll more than the others sets, they can achieve far away distances, and that Handi Life Sport balls is also the ones that more oscillate in its direction. Given the requirements of the athletes, between the tested games, they prefer Boccas set balls.
Ending evaluatuions were compare two sets with more than one thousand hours of training and they had gotten the best results of tests.
-Present at XI Sciences Congress of Sport and Physical Education of portuguese language countries-
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