PURPOSE To examine the inter-rater reliability and comparative validity of product-oriented and process-oriented measures of fundamental movement skills among children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD In total, 30 children with CP aged 6 to 14 years (Mean = 9.83, SD = 2.5) and classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I-III performed tasks of catching, throwing, ...

Object control skills provide children the tools to be physically active-a major societal priority. At the fundamental movement level, object control skills form the foundation of further sports skill development. The purpose of this study was to examine children's (ages 5 to 14 years, Grades K-8) development of four key object control skills: catching, throwing, kicking, and striking. 186 chil...

Optic flow is known to adapt the direction of walking, but the locus of adaptation remains unknown. The effect could be due to realignment of anatomical eye, head, trunk, and leg coordinate frames or to recalibration of a functional mapping from the visual direction of the target to the direction of locomotion. We tested whether adaptation of walking to a target, with optic flow displaced by 10...

Purpose. To examine the inter-rater reliability and comparative validity of product-oriented and process-oriented measures of fundamental movement skills (FMS) among children with cerebral palsy (CP). Method. Thirty children with CP aged 6 to 14 years (Mean=9.83 SD 2.5), and classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I-III performed tasks of catching, throwing, kick...

Evidence supporting performance enhancing effects of kinesiotape in sports is missing. The aims of this study were to evaluate effects of kinesiotape applications with regard to shooting and throwing performance in 26 amateur soccer and 32 handball players, and to further investigate if these effects were influenced by the players' level of performance. Ball speed as the primary outcome and acc...

fundamental movement skills are observable patterns of motor behaviors including locomotor, manipulative, and stability activities. the aim of this study was to assess the gross motor development and the movement skill proficiency in elementary school children in tehran city. the test of gross motor development-2 (ulrich, 2000) was administered to 712 children aged between 7 and 11. performance...

Vision provides us with much information about distal spaces, and enables us to formulate expectations about how objects move. In this work, we consider how images, together with motor and performance data, can be used to form ”maps” or a holistic view of any motion. For example if the learner knows how to throw a ball, it may be able to use the map to see that it also applies to kicking, or ca...

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of objective control skill and performance criteria of students with intellectual disability at special school. Three hundred thirty one students with intellectual disability were participated this study (M: 230, F: 101). Their aged was from 10-18 aged old. We had the test the objective control skill by video, objective control skill consisted ...

The Motor Programs theory describes the process by which the nervous system activates control of voluntary movements. After making a decision the brain operates an action plan that directs the appropriate muscular activity. Keele (1968) defined the Motor program as a system of muscle commands created in advance and stored in memory. The Generalized Motor Program (GMP) concept developed by Schmi...

This paper presents Dempster-Shafer theory for move prediction in start kicking of the bicycle kick of sepak takraw game. Sepak takraw is a highly complex net-barrier kicking sport that involves dazzling displays of quick reflexes, acrobatic twists, turns and swerves of the agile human body movement. A Bicycle kick or Scissor kick is a physical move made by throwing the body up into the air, ma...