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Determining the solution space for a coordinated whole body movement in a noisy environment: application to the upstart in gymnastics

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posted on 2014-10-31, 15:29 authored by Michael HileyMichael Hiley, Fred YeadonFred Yeadon
The upstart is a fundamental skill in gymnastics, requiring whole body coordination to transfer the gymnast from a swing beneath the bar to a support position above the bar. The aim of this study was to determine the solution space within which a gymnast could successfully perform an upstart. A previous study had shown that the underlying control strategy for the upstart could be accounted for by maximizing the likelihood of success while operating in a noisy environment.1 In the current study, data were collected on a senior gymnast and a computer simulation model of a gymnast and bar was used to determine the solution space for maximizing success while operating in a noisy environment. The effects of timing important actions, gymnast strength, and movement execution noise on the success of the upstart were then systematically determined. The solution space for the senior gymnast was relatively large. Decreasing strength and increasing movement execution noise reduced the size of the solution space. A weaker gymnast would have to use a different technique than that used by the senior gymnast to produce an acceptable success rate.

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

JOURNAL OF APPLIED BIOMECHANICS

Volume

30

Issue

4

Pages

508 - 513 (6)

Citation

HILEY, M.J. and YEADON, M.R., 2014. Determining the solution space for a coordinated whole body movement in a noisy environment: application to the upstart in gymnastics. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 30 (4), pp. 508 - 513.

Publisher

© Human Kinetics, Inc.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is the as accepted for publication version of an article published in the serial Journal of Applied Biomechanics [© Human Kinetics, Inc.]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jab.2013-0282

ISSN

1065-8483

Language

  • en