2006 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 23-34
In this research, the ball-handling capability means ‘the capability to handle a ball skillfully and to hold it’. The objective of this research is to make clear the characteristics of shooting movement and to obtain the useful material in providing coaching in the future, by analyzing the shooting movement in three-dimensional dynamic analyses. The analyses were performed by looking at the effects of the following three elements on the shooting movement: (1) the morphological element coming from the size of a palm which is likely to give effects on the ball-handling capability, (2) the technical element coming from the way how to exert a force on the ball, (3) and the element of physical strength coming from grip strength. The morphological element gave its effect mainly on the strength of a force on the ball. When the morphological element was excellent, the chance of the ball's getting off the hand unwillingly was low, so that a quick force was found to be exerted on the ball. The technical element gave its effect on the way how to exert a force on the ball at the position where the back-swing was completed and at the time of the forearm forward swing. When the technical element was excellent, the back-swing could be quickly completed at a high position, producing an efficient forward-swing, resulting in a strong force exerted at the position of forearm forward-swing.The element of physical strength gave its effect on the necessity to give more speed to the movement at the position of back-swing in order to complement the ball's speed at the time of forearm forward-swing. When the element of physical strength was poor, it was suggested that a strong force was difficult to be exerted at the time of forearm forward-swing unless more speed was given to the movement.
