Eduqas A-Level Physical Education A550QS
Health, Fitness and an Active Lifestyle
Short-Term Responses to Exercise
Long-Term Adaptations to Exercise
Fitness Testing and Components of Fitness
Training Methods, Principles and Periodisation
Energy Systems
Fatigue and Recovery
Diet, Nutrition and Supplements
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Joints and the Musculo-Skeletal System
Planes, Axes and Movement Patterns
Biomechanical Principles and Levers
Linear and Angular Motion
Projectile Motion and Fluid Mechanics
Performance Analysis
Technology in Sport
Personality
Attitudes
Goal Setting
Stress, Arousal and Anxiety
Motivation
Aggression
Social Facilitation
Group Dynamics and Leadership
Attribution Theory
Self-Efficacy and Confidence
Skill, Ability and Skill Classification
Learning Curves, Theories and Stages
Transfer, Practice and Guidance
Information Processing, Memory and Feedback
Sport, Culture and Society
The Emergence of Modern Sport
Ethics, Deviance and Doping
Social Differentiation in Sport
Sport and the Mass Media
Commercialisation and Globalisation
The Emergence of Modern Sport
From amateurism to professionalism and commercialisation
- 3 things to know
- Components 1 and 2
Overview
Amateurs and professionals, the defence of amateurism, spectatorism, the Football Association and professionalism, the broken-time debate and the 1895 split, cricket's amateurs and professionals, and the early Olympics.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is a professional in sport?
Why did the middle and upper classes defend amateurism?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is an amateur in sport?
Model answer
An amateur is a performer who takes part for enjoyment and receives no payment. Amateurism was the ideal of the Victorian middle and upper classes.
- 2
What is a professional in sport?
Model answer
A professional is a performer who is paid to take part. Professionals rely on sport for their living.
- 3
Why did the middle and upper classes defend amateurism?
Model answer
The middle and upper classes believed sport should be played for its own sake. Amateur rules also kept working-class professionals out of their competitions.
- 4
How did spectatorism move sport in a new direction?
Model answer
Large paying crowds gave clubs a regular income from gate money. Gate money allowed clubs to pay players.
- 5
When did the Football Association legalise professionalism?
Model answer
The Football Association legalised professionalism in 1885. Northern clubs had been paying players secretly.
- 6
What was the broken-time debate in rugby?
Model answer
Northern clubs wanted to compensate working-class players for wages lost while playing. The Rugby Football Union refused to allow broken-time payments.
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