Using balance training to improve the performance of youth basketball players

Sport Sciences for Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 37-42

  Boccolini, Gabriele ^a   Brazzit, Alessandro ^a   Bonfanti, Luca ^a   Alberti, Giampietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basket; Proprioception; Stability; Vertical jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880607063     PISSN: 18247490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11332-013-0143-z     Document Type: Article

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