The time window of ball release for accurate throwing.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16545
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• Principal Investigator: Nasu Daiki 日本電信電話株式会社NTTコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所, スポーツ脳科学プロジェクト, リサーチアソシエイト (20758411)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 投動作 / タイミング / ばらつき

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For baseball pitches and basketball shots, we investigated whether trained players acquire a motion that compensate for variation in timing of ball release. We clarified the relationship between the ball behaviors immediately after ball release, timing of release and the ball arrival point. But, we could not obtain evidence showing the allowance for the variation in the timing of release. Both the variations of the timing of release and the hand trajectory may affect the ball arrival point, and there were individual differences in the degree of the influence on the arrival point from them.

Free Research Field

運動制御学