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Winter Adaptive Sports Participation, Injuries, and Equipment
Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review, 2019As the participation rate and popularity of winter adaptive sports increases, understanding injury patterns and equipment is crucial for athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, sports physicians, prosthetists/orthotists, and all the staff involved. While the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976 had 17 participating countries, the most recent paralympic ...
Hanna, Oh, Wade, Johnson, Isaac P, Syrop
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Biomechanics research and sport equipment development
Sports Engineering, 2015Advances in sport equipment have revolutionized athletic competition with engineers developing equipment that can enhance performance. However, not all athletes are able to benefit from the new, ideal equipment, with some athletes performing worse. Although the engineering may be sound, the interaction between the piece of equipment, the athlete, and ...
Darren J. Stefanyshyn, John W. Wannop
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Instrumentation of sports equipment
2013There are three types of instrumentation in sport: instrumentation of athletes, equipment and facilities. Each type has its advantages, disadvantages and areas of application. One disadvantage of connecting sensors to athletes, for example, is the trade-off between accuracy and the effect on the athlete’s performance.The tighter sensors are connected ...
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Emergency Release for Winter Sports Equipment
Journal of ASTM International, 2010Using a pyrotechnical pill, Wintersports equipment can be electrically released and removed, where mechanical opening is impossible because of missing torque between binding and equipment, e.g., at avalanche and tree-well situations or at ski base jumping with a wingsuit.
Wolfgang Schott, Veit Senner
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Sports Equipment Based Motion Deformation
2005We propose a novel scheme for generating the locomotion of sports equipment along with motion deformation. To accomplish this, we search the event frames in order to find the points where the character is in contact with the sports equipment (contact points) or not (split points).
Jong-In Choi +2 more
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Equipment Innovations and Rules Changes in Sports
Current Sports Medicine Reports, 2004Participation in competitive athletics carries an inherent risk for injury. The acceptable level of risk in certain sports is often a topic of considerable debate. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, and other sports governing bodies, use injury surveillance and input from coaches, administrators, officials, athletes, and sports medicine ...
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Three-Dimensional Printing of Sports Equipment
2019As an emerging technology in the 1980s, additive manufacturing (AM) has been penetrating the world of manufacturing ever since. From the beginning with the development of the stereolithography technique AM offered a less-expensive and less-time consuming approach to prototyping using only photopolymers such as acrylates and epoxies.
Kajtaz, M. +3 more
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Sports and Recreation Equipment Applications
2001Abstract This article discusses the historical background of composite construction in recreational equipment and sporting goods. It provides information on the applications of composites in baseball bats, tennis rackets, and golf clubs. The applications of composites in bicycling, winter sports, aquatic sports, track, field, and archery
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