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Sports biomechanics seeks to gain an understanding of the mechanics of sports movements. Such questions as how the approach speed, leg plant angle and knee angle affect high jumping performance may be addressed experimentally. Questions such as why high jumpers use a curved approach may be answered using computer simulation modelling. Both approaches are evident in the research articles listed in the Group's pages.
Motor control goes beyond the mechanics of movement and seeks to gain an understanding of sports technique from a perspective of coordination and neuro-muscular control. Thus while sports biomechanics may explain why a double straight somersault is mechanically unstable, motor control aims to answer how the instability may be controlled using in-flight corrections based upon proprioceptive feedback. Again computer simulation is a powerful tool for such investigations.
The research publications of the group have been organised under these research topics:
- Methods
- Aerial Movement
- Cricket
- Dynamic Jumps
- Gymnastics
- Impact
- Motor Control
- Racket Sports
- Other Sports
People in the group
- Professor Fred Yeadon - Professor of Computer Simulation in Sport
- Dr Mark King - Senior Lecturer in Sports Biomechanics
- Dr Matthew Pain - Senior Lecturer in Sports Biomechanics
- Dr Mike Hiley - Research Fellow
- Dr Sam Allen - Lecturer in Sports Biomechanics
- Lili Yeadon - Research Associate (part-time)
- Dr Jon Knight - Software Developer (part-time)
- Idafe Perez Jimenez - Research Student
- Felix Tsui - Research Student
- Phil Jones- Research Student
- Martin Lewis - Research Student
- David Burke - Research Student
- Gheorghe Predescu - Director of Gymnastics
- Alec Edworthy - British Gymnastics Database Programmer (part-time)
PhD Graduates of the Loughborough Biomechanics Group
- Dr Mark King
- Dr Sam Allen
- Dr Mike Hiley
- Dr Behzat Kentel
- Dr Pete Worthington
- Dr John Challis, Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State University
- Professor David Kerwin, Professor of Biomechanics, UWIC
- Dr Mike Harwood
- Dr Sharon Dixon, Senior Lecturer, Exeter University
- Dr John Tan, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of PE and Sports Science, Singapore Institute of Education
- Dr Mark Brewin
- Matt Grieg, Sports Scientist, Football Association, Lilleshall
- Dr Grant Trewartha, Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics, Bath University
- Dr Cassie Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Bath University
- Dr Veni Kong
- Dr Emma Rosamond
- Dr Jonathan Glynn, Biomechanist, Aspire Academy, Qatar
- Dr Chris Mills - Lecturer in Biomechanics, Portsmouth University
- Dr Andy Roosen
- Dr Jo Prescott, World Class Performance Director, British Gymnastics
Past Visiting Academics
- Dr Graham Caldwell, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director in Kinesiology, University of Massachussets, Amherst
- Kate Hogarth, University of Queensland, Australia
- Roger Wangler, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr Mickael Begon, Professor, University of Montreal
- Akiko Imura - Visiting Researcher
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