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Relationships Between Throwing Velocity And Selected Kinematics In Youth Baseball Players, Nick Hedgecock
Relationships Between Throwing Velocity And Selected Kinematics In Youth Baseball Players, Nick Hedgecock
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
Research investigating baseball position players has been limited primarily to pitchers. The current study examined several kinematic variables and their relationship with ball velocity in middle and high school-aged baseball players using two-dimensional (2D) motion analysis. The purpose of this study was to investigate these relationships using 2D motion analysis and compare these results to those reported in the literature using 3D analysis. Thirteen baseball players (15.31 ± 1.25 yrs., 72.29 ± 10.79 kg and 177.09 ± 5.59 cm tall) participated in the study. A video camera was used to record three throwing trials for each participant. Four reflective markers …