Kinesics In Basketball

The value behind entertainment depends on each individual and their likings, implying that not every single human being enjoys playing sports. However, people who do seek enjoyment through athletic activities should know that such vigorous movement can permit various benefits. Competing 5 on 5 on the basketball court involves teamwork and a game plan. The 5 players on each team must create a clever strategy for allies to follow through on court. Possibly achieving a blind pass, jab step or block can make a victorious battle. Communication, team cooperation and interpreting the opponent’s next

The purpose of this assignment was to observe and analyze the behaviors of UC Davis athletes on an NCAA Intercollegiate sports team. I was able to observe the athletes in their natural setting and observe their behaviors before, during and after the game. This assignment is important because we are observing athletes without interfering. This gives the researcher the ability to observe their natural behavior while playing the game. From this experience we are trying to learn the different behaviors that each player has, or if they have any similarities. We are also learning how players interact with their team, their coaches and the crowd.

Meet Michael. He’s twenty-two years old, has neatly cropped hair, and dons a fabulous pair of red glasses. At first glance, he’s mild mannered and polite, with a friendly disposition and toothy smile. But when the courts are swept, shoes are laced, and ball is in hand, Michael Wang transforms. Suddenly, it’s Lebron James spinning furiously to the basket. On other days, Allen Iverson dances into his infamous killer crossover as two defenders tumble to the floor. And when Kobe lines up at the three-point arc, everybody in the gym knows, it’s game time.

In her article, Michelle Voss explains that professional athletes have better-developed imaginations. Research showed that the excitable part of the mind in elite basketball players while watching their competitors was the same area that controlled their shooting hand. Voss explains that the basketball players subconsciously pictured themselves doing their opponents’ moves in order to produce an accurate prediction of the outcome. In doing this, researchers concluded that the players were able to predict free-throw outcome within 30 percent accuracy while expert viewers were only able to make predictions within 10 percent accuracy (par 5).

Hand-eye coordination is vital to every sport out there. A basketball player has to shoot the ball into the hoop, a football player has to throw the ball to an open receiver, a baseball player has to swing a bat to hit a 95 mile per hour fastball, and golfers have to swing their club and hit a tiny ball a couple hundred yards. It is the number one aspect that is required in all sports. Although it is common to associate sports with many other qualities.

When you turn on the TV or go to your local high school and watch a game there are many things that are similar between the pros and the armatures. When I observed a game a few weeks ago it was a different aspect that I wasn’t used too. I had played the game my entire life up until the end of my high school career. It was different and weird to be sitting on the other side of the fence watching not playing and having to do an observation for this essay. The first thing I noticed was

The final graphical comparison we can make is the total mechanical energy of each of the basketballs, as seen in Graphs 6 and 12. The total mechanical energy is simply the sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy of the basketball. The shape of the graph is a plateau of flat near-constant mechanical energy during the air-time and sharp decreases with a rebound to a lower plateau after each bounce. As seen in the graphs for kinetic and potential energy, the well-inflated basketball had a value of total mechanical energy of 3.45 Joules when it was in the air after the first bounce and the less-firm underinflated ball had a smaller value of only 2.90 Joules after the first bounce. These values are equal to the potential energy of the basketballs at that point in time because the only energy of the basketball while it is in the air is potential energy due to gravity, the mass of the ball, and the height of the ball. The total mechanical energy also had sharp decreases down to zero total mechanical energy during the bounces as both the kinetic and potential energy are at zero. Since the total mechanical energy of the basketballs is close to the value of the potential energy of the basketballs, we can draw the conclusion that the trend of the firmer, well-inflated basketball had a smaller rate of decrease of mechanical energy in between bounces than the less firm, underinflated basketball. These decreases in total mechanical energy after bounces along with the small

My subject and person that I chose to perform this movement is Carolyn Gardner, 12-year-old beginner basketball player in the sixth grade. She is on the junior varsity team and this is her first time playing basketball on a team. This is her first time playing any team sport. Right now she is learning the basics and having a hard time focusing but that is expected being her first year. The reason I chose Carolyn is because since this is her first time playing basketball on a team and her first sport, there is no muscle memory developed as of yet. I can analyze her foul shot and movements and see raw unrehearsed kinetics of her movements.

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In a game of Basketball the free throw is the most important shot in the game of Basketball, research has been conducted and nearly twenty percent of all points in College (NCAA) Division 1 Basketball were mainly scored from free throws (Kozar, Vaughn, Lord, Whitfield, & Dve, 1994). As the game progresses, the shot becomes more imperative later in the game (Kozar et al., 1994). The free throw would be considered one of the easiest shots in the game (Okubo & Hubbard, 2006), considering that the player is all alone, with no defensive players surrounding him and very little considerable amount of distractions (decides the admirers). A skilled intercollegiate team should be capable of shooting at least 80% or more from the free throw line, but very few teams are able to achieve that goal for whatever reason. Successful free throw shooting requires good concentration and most importantly have good mechanics throughout the whole motion of the shot. Which is why I decided to do my thesis on the analytical mechanics of the free throw. Throughout this paper I will be discussing about non-linear ordinary differential equations, angular velocity, the reaction force, velocity, and the contact point extension of the elbow motion measurements hyperextension on the wrist,….

To be a good basketball player, good passing is required. Good passing rewards the team with more control over the game. Once the player has learned the basics of passing, they can work on the more advanced ways of distributing the basketball. Passing between the legs or behind your back is a tough technique to conquer. However once these tools are learned, they can be used for better passes and to fake out the defense.

When a basketball bounces, it has two different types of energy: kinetic energy and potential energy.

Dribbling is all based on conservation of energy and the two different types of collisions, elastic and inelastic.

There are many aspects to the game of basketball and physics can be applied to all of them. Although to be good at basketball it is not necessary to play it from a physics point of view. Basketball players become good by developing muscle memory for the actions that must be performed in the game of basketball from years of practice. Nevertheless knowing some of the physics in the game of basketball can help a good player be a better player. In this paper I will cover the three most important aspects of the game, shooting, dribbling and passing.

“ Shing, you gotta look up at the rectangular space of the basketball hoop; therefore, feel that vibe of getting ready to shoot that shot and feeling that dazzle. You gotta feel the air charging through your veins and look up at the basket and stare at where you shoot. Your eyes gotta have to be like an eye of a hawk.” said my grandfather