The soccer kick is a well-known movement. The entire body is involved with this motion. The kick is separated by phases. There is the plant phase where the athletes stops running and plants one of his legs and swings his body around to the ball. After this phase, there is the kicking phase, where the athlete finishes rotating his body to the ball to complete the kick. This paper will review the literature and research of the biomechanics of soccer kicks as well as provide a kinematic analysis and discussion.
Literature Review
Instep soccer kick Each article analyzed in this essay researched the instep soccer kick, which refers to the normal kick in soccer with the planting phase and kicking phase. (Kellis, 2007) The articles also refer
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A 15 segment, three dimensional test was used to determine the biomechanics of the body during the soccer kick (Shan, 2005). Most motions of a soccer kick involve the sagittal plane and therefore can be used mostly by two dimensional analysis. Fifteen soccer players were used in this analysis (Shan, 2005). The results showed that the more experienced the player, the better the kick. This was due to the difference in trunk extension and rotation. The trunk rotated up to 60 degrees in experienced players (Shan, 2005). Once the plant leg was firmly on the ground the experienced player would rotate his body from his trunk causing the should to rotate as well as the head, creating a whip like effect to provide the most force on the ball. The study concluded that the whole body was used in a soccer kick and required multi-joint coordination. (Shan, …show more content…
This is not normally thought to be important, when watching a kick. The legs and arms demonstrate a wide ROM used, however, the back is also critical to the kinematics of a soccer kick (Levanon, 1998). When observing the place kicking, the athletes would normally take shots from the side of the ball from where they were attempting to place it. The athlete would then lean to the side and plant their foot at an angle leading their whole body to be tilted and rotating, including the spine. This rotation, almost a pivot like motion, created a whip like effect that created a source of power and torque for the athlete (Levanon,
Soccer are footwear which are worn for playing soccer. They play an integral part in a player’s performance. Modern day soccer cleats are far from the basic soccer cleats of the past. They involve different types of science and technology.
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A baseball pitcher throws a baseball across the plate and the batter hits it to center field, and elderly man pitches horseshoes, a young person spikes a volleyball, student practices driving a golf ball while a college athlete practices punting a football. Once more, as is the case with pushing and pulling, a widely diverse set of activities has a common denominator. Each of these activities involves sequential movement of the body segments resulting in the production of a summated velocity at the end of the chain of segments used. The path produced by the end point of this chain of segments is curvilinear in nature. Sequential segmental motions are most frequently used to produce high velocities in external objects. Depending on the objective of the skill, speed, accuracy, distance, or some combination, modifications in the sequential pattern may be involved, larger or smaller ranges of motion might be used, and longer of shorter lever lengths may be chosen. Regardless of the modifications, the basic nature of the sequential throwing, striking or kicking pattern remains the same.
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The effect of air resistance on the ball would only be minor, but would need a lot of calculations which is why it was left out. We are also going to assume that there is no “curl”, or “bend” on the ball. Using the technique of bending the ball changes the straight line path of the ball making it hard to calculate. Also, we assume that the preparation leading up to the kick is perfect, and that there will be no errors in the initial shooting velocity. There is no error in the initial shooting velocity.
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The next stage of the kick switches to upwards and forward rotation of the knee around the hip joint. This is also connected to the equations v=ωr and KE=(1/2)mv^2 + (1/2)Iω^2, thus KE=(1/2)m(ωr)^2 + (1/2)Iω^2. In a properly executed kick, this transition is completely smooth, and energy is conserved. This leads to the idea that a vital part of a proper, focused front kick is how quickly and smoothly the back leg is pulled forward.
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