Effect of two different sized hand paddles on the front crawl stroke kinematics

Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 232-237

  Gourgoulis, V ^a   Aggeloussis, N ^a   Vezos, N ^a   Mavromatis, G ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Front crawl; Hand paddles; Swimming; Three dimensional kinematic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; HAND; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HAND; HIP; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOVEMENT; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; UPPER EXTREMITY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33746852095     PISSN: 00224707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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