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 TITLE:
TARGET EFFECT ON THE KINEMATICS OF
TAEKWONDO ROUNDHOUSE KICK- IS
THE PRESENCE OF A PHYSICAL TARGET A
STIMULUS, INFLUENCING MUSCLE
POWER GENERATION

Written by Jacek Wasik and Gongbing Shan in Acta of

Bioengineering and Biomechanics. Vol 17, No. 4, 2015
 Introduction
• In this article, it discuss about a taekwondo that
famous about its powerful kicking technique
• In previous studied show that roundhouse kick
is the most frequently used and this kick
generates kicking force form 1304 N to 2089 N
• In this article, the aim of their study was to
investigate the kinematics of roundhouse kick
and it factor to power generation.
 Method
• They used 6 ITF taekwondo practicioners
voluntarily in this study.
• The practicioners were asked to perform kick
with and without a physical target.
• The first kick aimed at breaking a board while the
second one was a kick into the air.
• A smart-D motion capture system was used to
quantitatively determines their kinematics
characteristics during each kick.
 Results
• In this article, the result of their studied are
kick foot speeds aiming at a breaking board
overall slower than kick without a physical
target.
• But the kicking time of the former was shorter.
 Conclusion
• They conclude, the result suggest that a physical target will
negatively influence the kick velocity, which is not effect for
creating a high quality kick.
• Possible motor controll mechanism are discussed for this
phenomenon.
• The studied made it clear, that training with and without
physical target would develop different motor control
patterns.
• J. Wasik his partner hope that there are more studies are
made for identifying the effectiveness and efficiencies of
their trainning.