Rugby Biomechanics: Place Kicking | Dr Alexandra Atack
Channel: Stuart McErlain-Naylor
Date: 24/04/2020

Lecture 10 of the Sports Biomechanics Lecture Series #SportsBiomLS 
Alexandra Atack discusses the scientific literature on the topic of rugby biomechanics with a focus on place kicking biomechanics. Implications are discussed for similar kicking sports such as football / soccer, American football, and Australian rules football. As well as a detailed breakdown of rugby place kicking biomechanics, this talk includes a kinetic and kinematic comparison of players / shots that were successful, short, or inaccurate (wide).

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00:00 Sports Biomechanics Lecture Series
01:18 Biomechanics of Rugby Place Kicking
06:14 Projectile Motion in Rugby Place Kicking
11:38 Factors Contributing to Rugby Place Kicking Success
17:01 Comparing Biomechanics Between Successful, Short, and Inaccurate Rugby Place Kickers
35:47 Practical Applications and Future Research
40:08 Q&A (Lab/Field Research, Launch Angle, Simulation, and More)
46:50 Future Lectures (Tennis, Inverse Dynamics, and Motion Capture)

For links to key papers discussed during the lecture:

Main papers discussed
Atack et al., 2019: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324406200_Assessing_rugby_place_kick_performance_from_initial_ball_flight_kinematics_development_validation_and_application_of_a_new_measure 
Atack et al., 2019a: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331402291_A_joint_kinetic_analysis_of_rugby_place_kicking_technique_to_understand_why_kickers_achieve_different_performance_outcomes 
Bezodis et al., 2019: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327702232_Kicking_foot_swing_planes_and_support_leg_kinematics_in_rugby_place_kicking_Differences_between_accurate_and_inaccurate_kickers 

Papers referenced
Linthorne & Stokes, 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918559/pdf/jssm-13-211.pdf 
Sinclair et al., 2014: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260316574_The_influence_of_lower_extremity_kinematics_on_ball_release_velocity_during_in-step_place_kicking_in_rugby_union 
Zhang et al., 2012: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5d78/3f2ac463e316e2aedf4cc7b3bc52e1e81004.pdf 
Sinclair et al., 2017: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317407221_Three-dimensional_kinematic_differences_between_accurate_and_high_velocity_kicks_in_rugby_union_place_kicking 
Bezodis et al., 2007: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5952497_Contributions_of_the_non-kicking-side_arm_to_rugby_place-kicking_technique 
Green et al., 2016: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/990f/6ecbdecb37a8eae116ab56c709afd1e82311.pdf


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