Research Catalog

Title

The Biomechanics of Batting, Swinging, and Hitting / Edited by Glenn S. Fleisig, Young-Hoo Kwon.

Publication

London : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fleisig, Glenn S.
• Kwon, Young-Hoo.

Description

viii, 187 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Batting (Baseball) > Physiological aspects
• Cricket > Batting > Physiological aspects
• Batting (Softball) > Physiological aspects
• Human mechanics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Baseball -- 1. The effect of pitch type on ground reaction forces in the baseball swing / Dave Fortenbaugh [and others] -- 2. Whole-body vibration effects on the muscle activity of upper and lower body muscles during the baseball swing in recreational baseball hitters / Gabriel F. "Cisco" Reyes [and others] -- Cricket -- 3. Enhancing cricket batting skill: implications for biomechanics and skill acquisition research and practice / Marc R. Portus & Damian Farrow -- 4. Biomechanics and visual-motor control: how it has, is, and will be used to reveal the secrets of hitting a cricket ball / Vishnu Sarpeshkar & David L. Mann -- 5. Hitting a cricket ball: what components of the interceptive action are most linked to expertise? / Juanita R. Weissensteiner, Bruce Abernethy, & Damian Farrow -- Hockey -- 6. Coordination profiles of the expert field hockey drive according to field roles / P. Brétigny [and others] -- 7. Whole-body predictors of wrist shot accuracy in ice hockey: a kinematic analysis / Yannick Michaud-Paquette [and others] -- Hurling -- 8. Modelling and simulation of the coefficient of restitution of the sliotar in hurling / Amjad Alsakarneh [and others] -- Softball -- 9. The effects of stride technique and pitch location on slo-pitch batting / Tom Wu [and others] -- Table tennis -- 10. Kinetics of the upper limb during table tennis topspin forehands in advanced and intermediate players / Yoichi Iino & Takeji Kojima -- Tennis -- 11. Review of tennis serve motion analysis and the biomechanics of three serve types with implications for injury / Geoffrey D. Abrams [and others] -- 12. Subject-specific computer simulation model for determining elbow loading in one-handed tennis backhand groundstrokes / Mark A. King, Jonathan A. Glynn, & Sean R. Mitchell -- 13. Serving to different locations: set-up, toss, and racket kinematics of the professional tennis serve / Machar Reid, David Whiteside, & Bruce Elliott -- 14. Tennis forehand kinematics change as post-impact ball speed is altered / Matthew K. Seeley [and others] -- Index.

Call Number

JFF 15-1230

ISBN

• 9780415870221
• 0415870224

OCLC

841672118

Title

The Biomechanics of Batting, Swinging, and Hitting / Edited by Glenn S. Fleisig, Young-Hoo Kwon.

Publisher

London : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fleisig, Glenn S.

Kwon, Young-Hoo.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1230