The relationship between ball mass and throw distance: Implications for coaching practice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Roberto Carlos 1997 freekick illustrating the Magnus effect.

EXCLUSIVE: UK Sport to cut 25% of its staff amid financial pressure

thetimes.co.uk/article/afe7cd…

Pattern Analysis Using Lower Body Human Walking Data to Identify the Gaitprint csbj.org/article/S2001-… Implications for the measurement, analysis, and coaching of sports techniques?

In the dynamical systems view of psychiatric disorders, the healthy state has a basin of attraction representing its resilience, while disorders are alternative attractors in which the system can become trapped.

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slowly but surely pumping out the chapters from my dissertation.... ⭐️

in our new study featured on the cover of Journal of Experimental Biology 's latest issue, we discover that climbing force profiles are remarkably stereotyped across humans regardless of experience!

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Can talent be identified and can future success be predicted? Maybe with the right variables and testing methods... taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

The main—perhaps the only—use of mocap technology in an applied context is in a profiling/monitoring capacity. What is the likelihood that this system/setup is sufficiently sensitive to reliably detect differences in technique/performance over repeated trials?

Hovland's current plight would make a good case study for sports coaching / skill acquistion students about the perils of tinkering with technique.
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The splendor of the movement and coordination in birds murmuration

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Do we change how we move under acute stress? And can we use these changes to detect stressed individuals using machine learning?
We addressed this question in our latest Scientific Reports paper - check it out: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Skill Acqs: yes or no?

“On the Range” is always an education #themasters

If you are doing research on marker-less motion analysis applied to exercise and sport, this is the home for your work: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

😃 New article published in J Biomech!

'Adaptive P-Splines for challenging filtering problems in biomechanics', by Pohl et al.

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We've published a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Psychology! 🥳📷
Miguel Segundo-Ortin and I have tried to provide a short, but all-encompassing introduction. We hope it's useful both for getting familiar with the field & for teaching. It's free for 14 days! doi.org/10.1017/978100…

#OnThisDay in 1994

Sir Curtly Ambrose signed off by bowling Graham Thorpe with his final delivery of the day to finish with 6 for 22 off 7.5 overs. England were 40 for 8 chasing 194. The following day they were all out.

The whole innings lasted 19.1 overs.

😃New article published in J Biomech!

'Trial- vs. cycle-level detrending in the analysis of cyclical biomechanical data', by Pataky & Rao.

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Athletic Injury Research: Frameworks, Models and the Need for Causal Knowledge link.springer.com/article/10.100…