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The Biomechanics of Batting, Swinging, and Hitting

Edited By Glenn Fleisig, Young-Hoo Kwon Copyright 2014
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge
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    In the movie Bull Durham, frustrated manager Joe Riggins stresses to his team, "This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball." This simplification works well for biomechanists too, as sports can be broken down into specific physical tasks like throwing, hitting, catching, and running. There have been significant advances in understanding some actions, but not others. In the first ten years of the journal Sports Biomechanics, only 18 of 236 articles were about hitting a ball. This scarcity is startling considering that according to USA Today (May 20, 2005), three of the five hardest things to do in sports involve hitting a ball (#1: baseball batting, #4: golf tee shot, and #5: tennis serve return).

    This book provides the latest biomechanical research in the under-studied field of hitting a ball. The biomechanics of baseball, cricket, hockey, hurling, softball, table tennis, and tennis are all examined. The chapters are written in a style that will both satisfy the high standards of biomechanists and provide information for instructors and athletes to improve performance.

    This book is based on a special issue of Sports Biomechanics.

    Editorial  Glenn S. Fleisig1 & Young-Hoo Kwon2

    1 American Sports Medicine Institute, Birmingham, AL

    2 Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX

    Baseball

    1. The effect of pitch type on ground reaction forces in the baseball swing

      2. Dave Fortenbaugh1,2, Glenn Fleisig1, Arzu Onar-Thomas3 & Shihab Asfour2

      1 American Sports Medicine Institute, Birmingham, AL

      2 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

      3 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

    2. Whole-body vibration effects on the muscle activity of upper and lower body muscles during the baseball swing in recreational baseball hitters

      3. Gabriel F. "Cisco" Reyes1, D. Clark Dickin2, Nolan J.K. Crusat3 & Dennis G. Dolny4

      1 Concordia University, Portland, OR

      2 Ball State University, Muncie, IN

      3 Western University of Health Services, Pomona, CA

      4 Utah State University, Logan, UT

      Cricket

    3. Enhancing cricket batting skill: implications for biomechanics and skill acquisition research and practice

      4. Marc R. Portus1 & Damian Farrow2,3

      1 Praxis Sport Science, Brisbane, Australia

      2 School of Sport and Exercise Science/ISEAL, Victoria University, Australia

      3 Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, Australia

    4. Biomechanics and visual-motor control: how it has, is, and will be used to reveal the secrets of hitting a cricket ball

      5. Vishnu Sarpeshkar1,2 & David L. Mann1,3

      1 School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

      2 School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

      3 Institute of Human Performance, University of Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China

    5. Hitting a cricket ball: what components of the interceptive action are most linked to expertise?

      6. Juanita R. Weissensteiner1, Bruce Abernethy2 & Damian Farrow3,4

      1 Talent Identification and Development, Australian Institute of Sport, Bruce, ACT, Australia

      2 School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

      3 School of Sport and Exercise Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

      4 Skill Acquisition, Australian Institute of Sport, Bruce, ACT, Australia

      Hockey

    6. Coordination profiles of the expert field hockey drive according to field roles

      7. P. Brétigny1, D. Leroy1, C. Button2, D. Chollet1 & L. Seifert1

      1 CETAPS UPRES EA 3832, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France

      2 School of Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    7. Whole-body predictors of wrist shot accuracy in ice hockey: a kinematic analysis

      8. Yannick Michaud-Paquette, Patrick Magee, David Pearsall & René Turcotte

      Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

      Hurling

    8. Modelling and simulation of the coefficient of restitution of the sliotar in hurling

      9. Amjad Alsakarneha1, Brian Quinn2, Ger Kelly2 & John Barrett1

      1 Nimbus Center for Embedded Systems Research, School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

      2 School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

      Softball

    9. The effects of stride technique and pitch location on slo-pitch batting

      10. Tom Wu1, Pierre Gervais2, Pierre Baudin2 & Marcel Bouffard2

      1 Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion and Leisure Studies, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA

      2 Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

      Table Tennis

    10. Kinetics of the upper limb during table tennis topspin forehands in advanced and intermediate players

      11. Yoichi Iino1 & Takeji Kojima1

      Laboratory of Sport Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

      Tennis

    11. Review of tennis serve motion analysis and the biomechanics of three serve types with implications for injury

      12. Geoffrey D. Abrams1, Alison L. Sheets2, Thomas P. Andriacchi1,3,4 & Marc R. Safran1

      1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

      2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

      3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

      4 Bone and Joint Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA

    12. Subject-specific computer simulation model for determining elbow loading in one-handed tennis backhand groundstrokes

      13. Mark A. King1, Jonathan A. Glynn2 & Sean R. Mitchell3

      1 School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough, University, Loughborough, UK

      2 ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, Qatar

      3 Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    13. Serving to different locations: set-up, toss, and racket kinematics of the professional tennis serve

      14. Machar Reid1,2, David Whiteside2 & Bruce Elliott2

      1 Sport Sciecne Unit, Tennis Australia, Melbourne, Australia

      2 School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    14. Tennis forehand kinematics change as post-impact ball speed is altered

    Matthew K. Seeley, Merrill D. Funk, William Matthew Denning, Ronald L. Hager & J. Ty Hopkins

    Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

    Biography

    Glenn Fleisig, Ph.D, has been the Research Director of the American Sports Medicine Institute since its foundation in 1987. Dr. Fleisig is a renowned expert in sports biomechanics, especially involving baseball. He is also an adjunct professor at UAB and a consultant for numerous organizations, including Little League Baseball and USA Baseball.

    Young-Hoo Kwon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Biomechanics Laboratory at Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Kwon is an expert in sports biomechanics and motion analysis-based research. He is the Editor-in-chief of journal Sports Biomechanics.

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