Optimal trajectory for the basketball free throw

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 491-504

  Hamilton, Gordon R ^a,b   Reinschmidt, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Kompleks Sukan Negara Bukit Jalil   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Basketball; Free throw; Optimal trajectory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; HEIGHT; HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

BASKETBALL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030666419     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026404197367137     Document Type: Article

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