BACKGROUND Badminton players often perform powerful and long-distance lunges during such competitive matches. The objective of this study is to compare the plantar loads of three one-step maximum forward lunges in badminton. METHODS Fifteen right-handed male badminton players participated in the study. Each participant performed five successful maximum lunges at three directions. For each dir...

INTRODUCTION: Non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries frequently occur in sports requiring landing from a jump or pivoting, such as seen in playing basketball and soccer. Recent research has focused on analyzing biomechanical factors of the high risk maneuvers considered to be associated with ACL injury, and excessive knee valgus has been reported to be a risk factor [1]. Competit...

The aim of the present study was to compare the statistical ability of both neural networks and discriminant function analysis on the newly developed SATB program. Using these statistical tools, we identified the accuracy of the SATB in classifying badminton players into different skill level groups. Forty-one participants, classified as advanced, intermediate, or beginner skilled level, partic...

We extend the cited model in two fundamentally different ways. First, we include different distance functions between image features to capture relationship between images of products that are visually different but related to each other (e.x. white shirt and blue jeans). Secondly, we exploit the category information present as meta-data to find relationships between products (e.x.product-pair ...

6. Two competitors play badminton. They play two games, each winning one of them. They then play a third game to determine the overall winner of the match. The winner of a game of badminton is the first player to score at least 21 points with a lead of at least 2 points over the other player. In this particular match, it is observed that the scores of each player listed in order of the games fo...

This paper proposes a method to estimate position of a small moving object. It is difficult to fit dynamic model of a target object moving fast and anomalously. We focuses on a phenomenon that a high-velocity moving object is observed as a line-shaped region in captured images by motion blur. Shapefrom-silhouette technique is applied to estimate the 3D trajectory of the observed lines. We choos...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of ingesting carbohydrate and caffeine solutions on measures that are central to success in badminton. METHODS Twelve male badminton players performed a badminton serve-accuracy test, coincidence-anticipation timing (CAT), and a choice reaction-time sprint test 60 min before exercise. Participants then consumed 7 mL/kg body mass of either water (PLA), 6.4% ca...

BACKGROUND The negative effects of dehydration on aerobic activities are well established. However, it is unknown how dehydration affects intermittent sports performance. The purpose of this study was to identify the level of dehydration in elite badminton players and its relation to muscle strength and power production. METHODOLOGY Seventy matches from the National Spanish badminton champion...

In a one year period, from 1 January 1986 to 31 December 1986, 4303 patients with sports injuries were treated at Aarhus Amtssygehus and Aarhus Kommunehospital. The mean age was 21.6 years (range 7-72 years) and 2830 were men. Two hundred and seventeen badminton injuries occurred in 208 patients (136 men) with a mean age of 29.6 years (range 7-57 years), constituting 4.1 percent of all sport in...