Biomechanical analysis of the handball in Australian football

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Parrington, Lucy, Ball, Kevin, MacMahon, Clare and Taylor, Simon (2009) Biomechanical analysis of the handball in Australian football. 27 International Conference on Biomechanics in Sport (2009), 2007. pp. 854-857. ISSN 1999-4168

Abstract

The handball pass in Australian Football has become increasingly important in recent years. However, important technical elements of handballing have not been identified in the scientific literature. The purposes of this study were to provide a descriptive analysis of the handball through the evaluation of a player considered to have good technique, to compare handballs for maximal speed and accuracy, and to compare preferred and non-preferred hands. Three-dimensional data were collected from one elite level Australian Football player using Optotrak Certus. The player performed three handballs for maximal speed and three handballs for accuracy with both the preferred and non-preferred hand. Linear hand speed, linear shoulder speed, shoulder angular velocity and elbow angular velocity were larger in the maximal speed condition. Differences in the development of hand speed were found for preferred and non-preferred hands.

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/5285
Official URL http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/view/3225
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Sport and Exercise Science
Historical > FOR Classification > 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science
Historical > SEO Classification > 9299 Other Health
Keywords ResPubID18313, handball, Australian football, three-dimensional analysis
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