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Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability
Scaling sports equipment to match the physical development of children allows motor skills to be performed with greater success and with more desirable movement patterns. It is unknown, however, how scaled equipment affects movement variability – a key factor associated with coordination. Our aim wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32080214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59475-5 |
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author | Buszard, Tim Garofolini, Alessandro Reid, Machar Farrow, Damian Oppici, Luca Whiteside, David |
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description | Scaling sports equipment to match the physical development of children allows motor skills to be performed with greater success and with more desirable movement patterns. It is unknown, however, how scaled equipment affects movement variability – a key factor associated with coordination. Our aim was to identify whether scaled sports equipment facilitates coordination and functional movement variability in children when performing a hitting for accuracy task in tennis. Twenty-five children were asked to execute a forehand stroke with the aim of hitting the ball to a target located 10 metres away. Participants performed the task in two conditions – a scaled equipment condition and a full-sized equipment condition. Scaled equipment led to superior hitting accuracy and greater temporal stability of the swing compared to full-sized equipment. Scaled equipment also afforded the emergence of a functional coupling between upper arm and forearm movement variability which helped regulate the distance between the shoulder and the racket. Comparatively there was a lack of coupling when full-sized equipment was used. Hence, scaled equipment promoted functional movement variability, whereas full-sized equipment resulted in the freezing of mechanical degrees of freedom. This suggests that children’s skill acquisition could be hindered and potentially regress when using inappropriately sized equipment. |
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spelling | pubmed-70332772020-02-28 Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability Buszard, Tim Garofolini, Alessandro Reid, Machar Farrow, Damian Oppici, Luca Whiteside, David Sci Rep Article Scaling sports equipment to match the physical development of children allows motor skills to be performed with greater success and with more desirable movement patterns. It is unknown, however, how scaled equipment affects movement variability – a key factor associated with coordination. Our aim was to identify whether scaled sports equipment facilitates coordination and functional movement variability in children when performing a hitting for accuracy task in tennis. Twenty-five children were asked to execute a forehand stroke with the aim of hitting the ball to a target located 10 metres away. Participants performed the task in two conditions – a scaled equipment condition and a full-sized equipment condition. Scaled equipment led to superior hitting accuracy and greater temporal stability of the swing compared to full-sized equipment. Scaled equipment also afforded the emergence of a functional coupling between upper arm and forearm movement variability which helped regulate the distance between the shoulder and the racket. Comparatively there was a lack of coupling when full-sized equipment was used. Hence, scaled equipment promoted functional movement variability, whereas full-sized equipment resulted in the freezing of mechanical degrees of freedom. This suggests that children’s skill acquisition could be hindered and potentially regress when using inappropriately sized equipment. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7033277/ /pubmed/32080214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59475-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Buszard, Tim Garofolini, Alessandro Reid, Machar Farrow, Damian Oppici, Luca Whiteside, David Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title | Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title_full | Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title_fullStr | Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title_full_unstemmed | Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title_short | Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
title_sort | scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32080214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59475-5 |
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