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Reliability and Practical Use of a Commercial Device for Measuring Punch and Kick Impact Kinetics2.62 MB
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Reliability and Practical Use of a Commercial Device for Measuring Punch and Kick Impact Kinetics
Sports (Basel), Vol.10(12), pp.1-13
13/12/2022
PMID: 36548503
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Abstract
Martial arts, boxing and combat sports such as mixed martial arts participation have gained popularity in recent years internationally. One common aspect to these sports is the training and skill in maximizing strike impact of punches and kicks, referred to as impact kinetics, with commercial devices now available to assess punching and kicking power in athletes training facilities and gyms. We, therefore, assessed the reliability of a commercial device, the PowerKubeTM (Strike Research Ltd., Norwich, England) via the technical error of measurement (TEM) in both linear and non-linear simulated strikes to the center of target, off-center, level and inclined in a laboratory setting. The highest mean impact power resulted from level, center strikes (5782 ± 230 W) followed by level, off-center strikes (4864 ± 119 W, p < 0.05), inclined center strikes (4500 ± 220 W, p < 0.05), and inclined, off-center strikes (3390 ± 151). Peak power reductions ranged from 15.9% (level, off-center) to a maximum of 41.4% (incline, off-center) compared to the level, center strikes. Coaches are advised to take steps such as videoing strikes with high sampling rates to better ensure consistency in impact orientation, being perpendicular and centered on the strike pad, to best capture the peak power of kicks or punches.
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- Title
- Reliability and Practical Use of a Commercial Device for Measuring Punch and Kick Impact Kinetics
- Creators
- Luke Del Vecchio - Southern Cross UniversityJohn Whitting - Southern Cross UniversityJennifer Hollier - Southern Cross UniversityAnnabelle Keene - Southern Cross UniversityMike Climstein - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Sports (Basel), Vol.10(12), pp.1-13
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Identifiers
- 991013075902402368
- Copyright
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Human Sciences; School of Health and Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article