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Title: | Changes in long jump take-off technique with increasing run-up speed |
Authors: | Bridgett, LA Linthorne, NP |
Keywords: | Athletics;Take-off angle;Long jump;Sports biomechanics |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Citation: | Journal of Sports Sciences, 24 (8), Aug 2006. |
Abstract: | The aim of this study was to determine the influence of run-up speed on take-off technique in the long jump. Seventy-one jumps by an elite male long jumper were recorded in the sagittal plane by a high-speed video camera. A wide range of run-up speeds was obtained using direct intervention to set the length of the athlete's run-up. As the athlete's run-up speed increased, the jump distance and take-off speed increased, the leg angle at touchdown remained almost unchanged, and the take-off angle and take-off duration steadily decreased. The predictions of two previously published mathematical models of the long jump take-off are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/535 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640410500298040 |
Appears in Collections: | Sport Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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