Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
AS20158: Analysis of sports performance |
 Credits: |
10 |
| Level: |
Intermediate |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Academic Year at City of Bath College | |
| Academic Year at Weston College |
| Assessment: |
CW 40%, OR 50%, PR 10% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
Before taking this unit you must take AS10086 and while taking this unit you must take AS20162 |
| Description: | Aims: This unit explores the fundamental biomechanical principles involved in the performance of motor skills. It enables students to undertake investigation and analysis of sporting movements, thus facilitating the sports coaching process and improving performance. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit students will be able to: * develop an understanding of the concepts of kinesiology and basic biomechanics for describing and analysing human (sporting) motion; * examine the forms of human (sporting) motion, including movement in different mediums; * understand how to apply the principles of kinesiology and basic biomechanics to evaluate and improve clients' sporting performance; * undertake movement analysis, utilising biomechanical principles as part of the sports coaching process, to improve clients' performance. Skills: * communication; * application of number; * information technology; * basic management skills. Content: * application of anatomical referencing terminology (position, planes / axes of movement, directional terms, joint movements, limb angles) to real sporting movements; * measurement of forms of motion (linear, angular, general, distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, scalars, vectors) in the analysis of sporting skills; * analysis of sporting movement in terms of: muscle actions, levers, equilibrium, stability, balance, friction; * using Newton's Laws of Motion and gravity in error identification of sports performance; * how movement (projectiles, aerodynamics, fluids, drag, buoyancy, flotation, Bernoulli principle, Magnus effect) affects performance; * quantitative and qualitative methods of recording and analysing sporting movement; * application of movement analysis to a sporting performance: data collection, video / software analysis, evaluation of movement, coaching points to improve performance. |