Abstract
[Purpose] To investigate the effect on dart throwing performance of motor imagery ability measured by JMIQ-R. [Subjects] Twenty-eight healthy students (mean age: 21.2 years) with no experience of playing darts. [Methods] The change in the total distance of 20 dart throws between the before practice, and post test, and each item score (total, kinesthetic imagery, visual imagery, and motor imagery of each physical region) of the JMIQ-R were assessed and relationships were investigated. [Results] Significant negative correlations were found between the amount of change during performance of dart throwing and the JMIQ-R scores of total, visual imagery, and motor imagery of the upper limbs. [Conclusion] The results suggest, motor imagery ability measured by JMIQ-R influenced the motor learning effect in the dart throwing task.
