Hand-to-hand combat in the 21st century-INNOAGON warrior or modern gladiator?-a prospective study.

Introduction: In being an important lifestyle factor, the physical activity influences people's health status, including life expectancy. Specific forms of physical activity are exercises related to hand-to-hand combat in the broadest sense, often overlapping and containing similar elements associated with combat sports (for Western culture) and martial arts (for Far Eastern culture). There are many types of forms of practising hand-to-hand combat exercises, which can be seen as opposing or in some ways complementary, e.

Compensatory action of the index and middle finger in the kinematic chain of a basketball shot.

Unlabelled: Performing effective actions requires the basketball player to balance factors such as motor variability, error minimalization and a complex sequence of coordination to determine the best action.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to differentiate the strength of the muscles of the index and middle fingers when performing a basketball shot.

Materials And Methods: Study group consisted of 122 male college basketball league students.