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Title The biomechanics of batting, swinging, and hitting / edited by Glenn S. Fleisig, Young-Hoo Kwon
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description viii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Baseball -- 1. The effect of pitch type on ground reaction forces in the baseball swing / Dave Fortenbaugh ... [et al.] -- 2. Whole-body vibration effects on the muscle activity of upper and lower body muscles during the baseball swing in recreational baseball hitters / Gabriel F. "Cisco" Reyes ... [et al.] -- Cricket -- 3. Enhancing cricket batting skill: implications for biomechanics and skill acquisition research and practice / Marc R. Portus & Damian Farrow -- 4. Biomechanics and visual-motor control: how it has, is, and will be used to reveal the secrets of hitting a cricket ball / Vishnu Sarpeshkar & David L. Mann -- 5. Hitting a cricket ball: what components of the interceptive action are most linked to expertise? / Juanita R. Weissensteiner, Bruce Abernethy, & Damian Farrow -- Hockey -- 6. Coordination profiles of the expert field hockey drive according to field roles / P. Brétigny ... [et al.] -- 7. Whole-body predictors of wrist shot accuracy in ice hockey: a kinematic analysis / Yannick Michaud-Paquette ... [et al.] -- Hurling -- 8. Modelling and simulation of the coefficient of restitution of the sliotar in hurling / Amjad Alsakarneh ... [et al.] -- Softball -- 9. The effects of stride technique and pitch location on slo-pitch batting / Tom Wu ... [et al.] -- Table tennis -- 10. Kinetics of the upper limb during table tennis topspin forehands in advanced and intermediate players / Yoichi Iino & Takeji Kojima -- Tennis -- 11. Review of tennis serve motion analysis and the biomechanics of three serve types with implications for injury / Geoffrey D. Abrams ... [et al.] -- 12. Subject-specific computer simulation model for determining elbow loading in one-handed tennis backhand groundstrokes / Mark A. King, Jonathan A. Glynn, & Sean R. Mitchell -- 13. Serving to different locations: set-up, toss, and racket kinematics of the professional tennis serve / Machar Reid, David Whiteside, & Bruce Elliott -- 14. Tennis forehand kinematics change as post-impact ball speed is altered / Matthew K. Seeley ... [et al.] -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Batting (Baseball) -- Physiological aspects.
Cricket -- Batting -- Physiological aspects.
Batting (Softball) -- Physiological aspects.
Human mechanics.
Author Fleisig, Glenn S., editor of compilation
Kwon, Young-Hoo, editor of compilation
ISBN 9780415870221 (hbk.)
0415870224 (hbk.)