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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Tennis serve"”.
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An electromyographic-cinematographic analysis of the tennis serve
… muscles in performing the three basic types of tennis serves. The muscles investigated were the triceps, anterior deltoid, middle deltoid, and posterior deltoid when executing the flat, slice, and twist serves.
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The Effects of Multimedia Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on Teaching Tennis in Physical Education Teacher Education
… on undergraduate PETE majors' teaching of the serve in tennis. The data were obtained from 18 undergraduate students enrolled in a PETE evaluation and assessment course at Virginia Tech. Subjects were stratified by gender and randomly assigned to three groups as Computer-Assisted Instruction …
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Biomechanical aspects of postural balance strategy in dynamic sport activities
… goal-directed tasks of an end-effector (e.g. tennis racket), while also needing to control their balance, in order to produce a successful task. However, studying the interaction between postural balance and end-effector control, in a biomechanical context and particularly in the tennis serve …
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The distinct neural mechanisms underlying the production of stereotyped and exploratory vocal behavior in songbirds
… it is speaking to one another, or nailing a tennis serve, humans can perform an incredible range of behaviors, most of which are learned. How do we and other animals learn complicated sequential behaviors, and once they are learned how are they executed? This thesis is an investigation into …
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3D variability in ball toss and impact location for tennis serves in collegiate female players
1 PDF file (vii, 38 pages)
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Effects of Same-day Strength Training on Serve Performance in Female Collegiate Tennis Players
… strength training on velocity and accuracy of a tennis serve among five female Division I intercollegiate athletes at the second and sixth week of a strength training program. Velocity and accuracy of 20 tennis serves were measured approximately four hours after a morning split-body (lower legs …
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The Frequency of Imagery Use on the Performance of a Complex Motor Skill
1 PDF file (55 leaves)
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Acute Alterations of Scapular Upward Rotation following a Functional Fatiguing Protocol in Male Tennis Players
… Twenty healthy, male competitive tennis players with no history of shoulder injury participated in this study: 10 experimental subjects(19.4 ± 1.07 yrs., 180.09 + 8.92 cm 72 + 11.56 kg) and 10 control subjects (19.6 ± 1.17 yrs., 181.1 + 6.56 cm 81.56 + 13.51 kg). …
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Neural mechanisms of early motor control in the vocal behavior of juvenile songbirds
… fingers around it. A few years later, she hits a tennis serve, perfect in the timing of its intricately choreographed movements. How does a young brain learn to use the muscles it controls, to properly coordinate motor gestures into complex behavioral sequences? To a surprising extent, for many …