The effects of baseball experience on movement initiation in catching fly balls

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 587-595

  Oudejans, Raôul R D ^a   Michaels, Claire F ^a   Barker, Frank C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baseball experience; Catching; Movement initiation time; Optical acceleration; Optical information

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASEBALL; DECISION MAKING; FOOT; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031457798     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026404197367029     Document Type: Article

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