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  • Complex Systems
  • Sports Science

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  • Complex systems analysis enhances understanding of athlete coordination.
  • Movement coordination in sports is often viewed as emergent.
  • The multiscale nature of athlete coordination requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and investigate movement coordination as a multiscale phenomenon.
  • To examine "complexity matching" in rowing performance.
  • To determine if complexity matching occurs between rowing partners.

Main Methods:

  • Sixteen rowers performed individual and dyadic rowing sessions (550 strokes each).
  • Evenly-spaced detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) calculated complexity indices (DFA exponents) of force-peak intervals.
  • Correlation analysis assessed the relationship between DFA exponents of rowing partners.

Main Results:

  • DFA exponents between team members were uncorrelated during individual sessions (r=0.06).
  • DFA exponents between team members were strongly correlated during dyadic sessions (r=0.87).
  • Complexity matching was not explained by simple mimicry or local adaptation.

Conclusions:

  • Rowing partners exhibit complexity matching, indicating synchronized performance.
  • Movement coordination in sports is a multiscale phenomenon.
  • Findings advance the theoretical understanding of coordination dynamics in team sports.