Relationships between sprint skating performance and insole plantar forces in national-level hockey athletes
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Faster sprint skating in hockey involves optimizing force application and jump strategies. Athletes with quicker acceleration used less weight acceptance impulse and a jump technique maximizing concentric impulse and rapid eccentric phases.
Area Of Science
- Sports Science
- Biomechanics
- Hockey Performance Analysis
Background
- Sprint skating is crucial for hockey success, with lower-body strength and power previously linked to performance.
- Direct relationships between force/impulse applied to ice and sprint speed remain inferred.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the links between insole plantar force variables and sprint skating performance.
- To associate these forces with physical capacity measures in national-level male hockey players.
Main Methods
- 13 national-level male hockey athletes performed 25m sprint skating trials.
- Insole force sensors captured plantar force data during sprints.
- Athletes completed range-of-motion, jump, and hop tests.
Main Results
- Mean relative weight acceptance impulse correlated with 0-5m and total sprint times.
- Weight acceptance impulse also associated with countermovement jump and repeated hop test metrics.
- Peak velocity correlated with impulse and ankle dorsiflexion range-of-motion.
Conclusions
- Faster sprinters exhibited lower relative weight acceptance impulse and optimized jump strategies.
- High peak velocity may require strides maximizing glide and minimizing vertical force.
- Ankle dorsiflexion range-of-motion may enhance peak velocity in sprint skating.
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