Analysis of cooperative actions in baseball pitching

Engineering of Sport 15 - Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (ISEA 2024)

Compared to 40 years ago, motor skills of Japanese children decrease. It is thought that improving the ability to control body can lead to solve the problem of decreasing motor skills. In this study, we focused on body cooperation which is the ability to control the body and analyzed cooperative actions by using singular value decomposition (SVD). Then, we analyzed differences between experts and beginners in order to find the common movements among the experts as indicators for teaching. This paper reports the result of this study.