Title: Technique of Hurdle Clearing in 400 Meters Hurdles (Study Review) Authors: Jiří Jakoubek Supervisor: PhDr. Aleš Kaplan, Ph.D. Aims: The aim of this thesis is to describe technique of hurdle clearing in 400 meters hurdle race using study review and to examine this technique at particular athlete during training and racing sessions in 400 meters hurdles race. Methods: Technique was compared and examined at young athlete. Two kinograms were used for analysis, one from training and one from racing session. The comparison was made using third hurdle in second track. One hurdle clearance from each training and racing session was used, where individual phases from hurdle crossing were clearly visible. For better and well- arranged comparative analysis the same athlete was always examined. Technique of hurdle clearing was analysed using 3D kinematic analysis. The captured record was transmitted into appropriate format and elaborated in Kinovea program. For superior quality of presented snapshots program Corel photo-point 9.0 was used. Results: The analyzed athlete was found to have imperfect technique of hurdle clearing. Different quality of technique during training and racing sessions used for hurdle crossing was apparent at several points. Among the nodal points of proband's technique, which were...

Instead of discussing an outstanding literary work by a well-known Swahili writer, this time I would like to present a second- or third-rate book by a renownless author (at least to my knowledge), Gilbert Gicaru Githere.2 Its title is Mwana Maji na Mrembo (The Marine and the beauty). It was published in 1990 by an otherwise unknown publishing house, Merengo Publishers, and printed in Hawaii. I have chosen this book because, in spite of its many flaws, it has some interesting features: The whole novel is written almost as a film script; descriptions of actions and landscapes are film-like, and the characters are seen as if they were on the screen. The problem is that this narrative technique does not work, so I want to analyse what is wrong with it.

Das Credo aus Johann Nepomuk Davids Deutsche Messe von 1952 wird mit Blick auf das musikalische Handwerkszeug untersucht. Die Analyse zeigt einen abgezirkelten Bau der Komposition. Kontrapunktische Regeln halten David fest in einer als bindungslos empfundenen Zeit. Aus der Sicht eines „Enkelschülers“ Davids wird dies reflektiert als Fesselung einer Generation: Den Geburtsjahrgängen um 1900 wurde eine wesentliche kreative Lebensphase durch Diktatur und Krieg genommen. Die Besinnung auf alte Techniken aber wird zu einem Gefängnis der Kunstfertigkeit. Der kundige Musiktheoretiker David behindert den Komponisten David. / Das Credo from the Deutsche Messe of Johann Nepomuk David is scrutinized with regard to his compositional technique. The analysis reveals a calculated musical structure. The conventions of counterpoint trap David in a time seemingly unbound. From the view of one of David’s 'student’s students' this is expressed as a bondage of a generation: those born around 1900 were robbed of a significant part of their creative lives due to dictatorship and war. But his concentration on traditional techniques imprisoned him within his own workmanship. David’s theoretical expertise thus hinders David’s compositional ability.