Publications by authors named "Jennifer Hollier"
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- Surfing bottom turns are crucial for the quality of following maneuvers and overall performance, but no previous studies examined specific coaching cues for this aspect.
- This study focused on analyzing the frontside bottom turn from the 2017 World Surf League finals, categorizing 199 turns to see how they led to either cutback or top turn maneuvers.
- A checklist of 47 critical features was created to analyze the turns, revealing key traits associated with high performance that can help coaches guide surfers in executing better bottom turn variations.
Martial arts, boxing and combat sports such as mixed martial arts participation have gained popularity in recent years internationally. One common aspect to these sports is the training and skill in maximizing strike impact of punches and kicks, referred to as impact kinetics, with commercial devices now available to assess punching and kicking power in athletes training facilities and gyms. We, therefore, assessed the reliability of a commercial device, the PowerKubeTM (Strike Research Ltd.
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