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Twist limits for late twisting double somersaults on trampoline

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posted on 2017-07-27, 12:50 authored by Fred YeadonFred Yeadon, Michael HileyMichael Hiley
An angle-driven computer simulation model of aerial movement was used to determine the maximum amount of twist that could be produced in the second somersault of a double somersault on trampoline using asymmetrical movements of the arms and hips. Lower bounds were placed on the durations of arm and hip angle changes based on performances of a world trampoline champion whose inertia parameters were used in the simulations. The limiting movements were identified as the largest possible odd number of half twists for forward somersaulting takeoffs and even number of half twists for backward takeoffs. Simulations of these two limiting movements were found using simulated annealing optimisation to produce the required amounts of somersault, tilt and twist at landing after a flight time of 2.0 s. Additional optimisations were then run to seek solutions with the arms less adducted during the twisting phase. It was found that 3½ twists could be produced in the second somersault of a forward piked double somersault with arms abducted 8° from full adduction during the twisting phase and that three twists could be produced in the second somersault of a backward straight double somersault with arms fully adducted to the body. These two movements are at the limits of performance for elite trampolinists.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Journal of Biomechanics

Volume

58

Pages

174 - 178

Citation

YEADON, M.R. and HILEY, M.J., 2017. Twist limits for late twisting double somersaults on trampoline. Journal of Biomechanics, 58, pp. 174-178.

Publisher

© Elsevier

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/

Acceptance date

2017-05-05

Publication date

2017-05-16

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Journal of Biomechanics and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.05.002.

ISSN

0021-9290

eISSN

1873-2380

Language

  • en