Positional relationship between ball and fingers for accurate baseball pitching.

ABSTRACT: Accurately throwing an object to a target position repeatedly is one of the specific human motor skills. The final arrival position of a thrown ball can be determined by its physical state at release. In baseball pitching, reducing the variability of the velocity angle of the ball at release (release angle) is important for reducing the variability of the pitch location. Although previous studies have suggested that hand and finger movements are important for accurate throwing, their relationship with the release angle has not yet been investigated in detail. This study focused on the positional relationship between the ball and fingers, which is considered to be closely related to ball movement as an action point of the force, and examined its relationship with the variability of release

SUBMITTER: Kusafuka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729979 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature