Land where you look? - Functional relationships between gaze and movement behaviour in a backward salto

Biology of Sport

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-183

  Heinen, T ^a   Jeraj, D ^b   Vinken, P M ^c   Velentzas, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex skill; Gymnastics; Movement kinematics; Visual spotting; Whole body rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864630818     PISSN: 0860021X     EISSN: 20831862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/20831862.1003276     Document Type: Article

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