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A 13 page paper discussing the components of a soccer kick. Running and kicking are the two primary activities that individual players must master in the game of soccer. Each has been studied extensively in terms of biomechanics, and each has application in other sports. The purpose here is to provide a qualitative biomechanical analysis of the soccer kick in terms of force, velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, moment of inertia and angle of release. Includes 4 diagrams. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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13 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSbiomSocrKck.rtf
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kicking are the two primary activities that individual players must master in the game of soccer. Each has been studied extensively in terms of biomechanics, and each has application
in other sports. The purpose here is to provide a qualitative biomechanical analysis of the soccer kick in terms of force, velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, moment of inertia and
angle of release. General Observations Lewicki, Barr and Martin (1999) note that the ability "to kick a soccer ball with both feet is
regarded as a desirable skill in high level soccer players," but that most players kick more effectively with one foot than with the other. Just as individuals are more
comfortable writing with one hand than they are with writing with the other, so are soccer players more comfortable kicking with a dominant leg. Because they use that dominant
leg more, its muscles are larger and stronger than are those of the non-dominant leg. Larger muscles carry more mass than smaller ones, and the additional mass of the
dominant leg can serve to increase the force with which the soccer player makes contact with the ball during a kick. Lewicki, Barr
and Martin (1999) study the biomechanics of the soccer kick to investigate the hypothesis that "the dominant leg of the subject will have greater range of motion at the hip-joint
and therefore be able to create greater velocity of the shank before contact with the ball which will mean a better shot/kick." Lewicki, Barr and Martin (1999) sought to
compare the kinematics of a kick with the dominant leg with the kinematics of a kick with the non-dominant leg, and chose to study the full-instep kick as their means
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