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Comparative Kinematic Analysis of Forehand Drive Variations in Tennis

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Sports Biomechanics, LNIPE, Gwalior MP, INDIA
  • 2Department of Sports Biomechanics, LNIPE, Gwalior MP, INDIA
  • 3Department of Centre for advanced studies, LNIPE, Gwalior MP, INDIA

Res. J. of Physical Education Sci., Volume 3, Issue (5), Pages 5-8, May,23 (2015)

Abstract

The point to take up this study is to investigate and to explicate the forehand drive technique of tennis to compare the two different variation of forehand drive in tennis. A total of 5 male university level subjects were selected (aged 20.54 ± 2.11) from tennis match practice group of Lakshmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education by using consecutive sampling. The results of the study reveals that the comparison of angles at angular kinematic variable (right shoulder joint, right elbow joint, right hip joint, right knee joint.) and Linear kinematic variable (height of center of mass at moment contact) was found to be insignificant at the moment contact as the p – value was more than 0.05.It means all the selected kinematic variables for both the technique of forehand drive were almost of similar in nature and only the contact point was different.

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