The southpaw advantage? - Lateral preference in mixed martial arts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Baker, Joseph ^a   Schorer, Jörg ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COMBAT SPORT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MARTIAL ART; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SKILL;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MARTIAL ARTS; ORIENTATION; SPORTS;

EID: 84896694985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079793     Document Type: Article

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