Baseball coaching of hitting technique using a swing measurement device ~The effect of an evaluation sheet on understanding bat-swing in high school baseball players~

Abstract

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology guidelines in 2013 on instruction in athletic club activities, it is important that coaches use not only their own experience, but also understand and use the results of studies by sports science specialists. In recent years, a device that provides measured results immediately after the batting swing has been developed by downsizing of the device following advances in sensor technology and IT techniques. This device measures the bat swing characteristics from the measurement data. However, coaching methodology based on scientific data is not yet established in amateur baseball clubs, possibly because of a mixture of rational and irrational instruction and difficulty in interpretation of the calculated numerical values. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using a data-based evaluation sheet on the understanding and motivation for batting practice in high school baseball players, and to examine the coaching method for baseball hitting using a swing measurement device.