Estimation of hand forces and propelling efficiency during front crawl swimming with hand paddles

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-215

  Gourgoulis, Vassilios ^a   Aggeloussis, Nikolaos ^a   Vezos, Nikolaos ^a   Kasimatis, Panagiotis ^a   Antoniou, Panagiotis ^a   Mavromatis, Giorgos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Front crawl swimming; Pitch angle; Propulsive forces; Sweepback angle

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAMERAS; PADDLE WHEEL PROPULSION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRONT CRAWL SWIMMING; PITCH ANGLES; PROPELLING EFFICIENCY; PROPULSIVE FORCES; SWEEPBACK ANGLES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARIEL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HAND PADDLE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFTING EFFORT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; SWIMMING;

EID: 37249067013     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.06.032     Document Type: Article

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