Hand Speed Measurements in Boxing
- Hand speed is particularly important in boxing both for protection against incoming blows and delivering blows. Sixteen amateur boxers (10 male, 6 female) with varying levels of experience from a boxing gym performed 20 jabs and 20 cross punches in air. The movement was recorded with a small wrist mounted accelerometer under the glove. The maximum velocity of each punch was determined from the RMS acceleration profile. The mean values of the jab maximal velocity was higher than the cross maximal velocity for 9 participants. The cross showed some dependence on reach (Spearman's correlation coefficient r = 0.57) and the jab dependence on experience (Spearman's correlation coefficient r = 0.56). The accelerometer technique has some promise for routine assessment of fist speed.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Dennis Kimm, David V. Thiel |
Parent Title (English): | Procedia Engineering |
Volume: | 112 |
First Page: | 502 |
Last Page: | 506 |
ISSN: | 1877-7058 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-16851 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.07.232 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2015/08/04 |
Copyright: | Crown Copyright © 2015. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. |
Note: | 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology, APCST 2015 |
Keyword: | accelerometer; boxing; hand speed; jab; punch |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften und Kommunikation |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport | |
Entry in this database: | 2015/08/21 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |