Analysing Sports Skills and Movements: Sports Biomechanics
What is Sports Biomechanics?
Sports biomechanics is the science that focuses on providing the explanation of how and why the human body moves in the way that it does. In sport and exercise, it is often also considered as the interaction between the performer and their equipment and environment.
Sport and exercise biomechanics is the area of science concerned with the analysis of the mechanics of human movement. It refers to the description, detailed analysis, and assessment of human movement while performing sport activities
Who is a Sports Biomechanist?
A biomechanist’s knowledge of how human beings move, and the application of that knowledge to produce solutions and products that will help them move more safely and effectively, is of great importance in sports and exercise. Sports Biomechanists work for the companies that produce athletic shoes and equipment. Biomechanists are also employed by individual professional athletes and athletic teams to provide analyses of how they can improve their sports performance.
Application of Sports Biomechanics
- The finding of optimal technique for enhancing sports performance
- The understanding of body loading to determine the safest method for performing a particular sport or exercise task.
- The testing of muscular recruitment and loading
- The inspection of sport and exercise equipment e.g., shoes, surfaces, and rackets.