{"id":701309,"date":"2021-09-08T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701309"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:04:31","slug":"biomechanics-of-the-kick-start-motion-in-competitive-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701309","title":{"rendered":"Biomechanics of the kick-start motion in competitive swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba have analyzed the &#8220;kick-start&#8221; technique used by swimmers when beginning a race. On the basis of force and velocity measurements, the team showed that both the vertical and horizontal forces exerted by the athletes&#8217; hands on the front of the starting platform helped the swimmers achieve proper form. This work may help swimmers increase their overall performance in races.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-biomechanics-kick-start-motion-competitive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Biomechanics of the kick-start motion in competitive swimming<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba have analyzed the &#8220;kick-start&#8221; technique used by swimmers when beginning a race. On the basis of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}