2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study in effective KEN KEN JUMP(horizontal jump by the single leg) of the junior athletes

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19700518
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sports science
Research Institution	Biwako Seikei Sport College
Principal Investigator	SHIGA Mitsuru びわこ成蹊スポーツ大学, スポーツ学部, 講師 (80375469)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Keywords	ジュニア / 疾走速度 / 5歩ステッピング / 5歩ホッピング / 女性
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study were to investigate the relationship between the running performance and jump performance in horizontal jumping task, and to clarify the relationship between leg action in the horizontal jump and running velocity, jump distance. These results indicated that horizontal single leg jump in female athletes were effective method to improve running velocity, which showed that there were important to jump forward, to jump by single leg, and to jump continuously. Additionally, it clearly showed that there were two important points that 5 stepping was to swing the forward of free leg at the contact phase, 5 hopping was to swing the right and left leg at the flight phase to improve the running performance in female.