Abstract:

The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of throwing velocity and accuracy on some kinematic parameters in elite and amateur handball players. Two groups of young healthy, male subjects took part in the experiments: one group of 9 handball players, Turkish National Handball Team (Group 1 (age:25.44±3.28 year, height: 188.88±6.75 cm, weight: 89.55±10.33 kg), another group of 9 physical education students (Group 2 (age: 22.66±1.58 year, height: 183.88±5.17 cm, weight: 89.00±11.82 kg ). In this study, thirty six overarm throwing performance were recorded by using two cameras (BASLER- A602 fc color, 100 Hz ) and tested using HUBAG software. Student-t test for independent samples was used to compare baseline values between groups. The Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationship between isokinetic strength and ball velocity. The level of significance was set at 0,05. Stride lengths of Group II were not increased as a linear, before the throwing. Only there was a signifant diffrences between groups at value of L3(%h) in accuracy throwing (p<.05). The angle of knee flexion bigger than the other group at cocking phase and ball release phase. It was found negative correlation between lead knee flexion and ball release angle and between lead knee flexion angle and trunk side angle in cocking phase at accuracy throwing. There was a significant difference between groups at ball velocity, but elite handball players throw with lower throwing velocity but more accurately.

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