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Record W1997447028 · doi:10.1080/17461390802594250

Influence of gender and experience on the maximal instep soccer kick

2009· article· en· W1997447028 on OpenAlexaff
Gongbing Shan

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Sport Science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSports Performance and Training
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhysical medicine and rehabilitationPsychologyPhysical therapyMedicine

Abstract

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Abstract Although soccer is a popular sport worldwide, little work has been done to satisfy the increasing demand for quantitative research on female players. As a result, training programmes for female players are often taken directly from their male counterparts, without appropriate adaptations. In this study, I examine the influence of gender and experience on the maximal instep soccer kick among male and female college students, with equal numbers of novice and skilled players. The data collection equipment consisted of a synchronized system with VICON™ 3D motion capture (nine high‐speed cameras, 120 Hz) and NORAXON wireless electromyography. Results showed that trained male and female players have different techniques. After a powerful kick, males naturally follow through with a jump to dissipate residual leg momentum, whereas females avoid this airborne phase; instead, they counteract the momentum with upper‐body flexions. Skilled male players displayed a more powerful quasi whip‐like movement of the kicking leg and more explosive muscle work patterns (higher maximum and faster increase rate of muscle tension) than skilled females. During training, practitioners should pay special attention to repetitive injuries in small muscles like the adductor magnus. The differences observed may be important for the development of training programmes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Citations57
Published2009
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