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Athletes and their Sensei’s: did aging affect the lower limb kinematics in karate practitioners
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Aging leads to a general decline in body functions that affects quality of life. Muscle function begins
to slow the contraction from the 40 to 50 years and decreases muscle strength 1 to 1.5% per year
after 60 years (Booth, Weeden, & Tseng, 1994; Vandervoort, 2002; Vandervoort & Mccomas, 1986).
Older adults do less work for lower fast angular velocities (Power, et al., 2014), and less power for
slow, moderate and fast angular velocities (Dalton, Power, Vandervoort, & Rice, 2012), than young
adults. These losses increase as age increases. One factor that exacerbates these functional losses is
the sedentary lifestyle, however, the physical exercise appears as an inversion factor, which cannot
only reverse this decline but also promote an increase in functional capacity at the neuromuscular
level. The athletic performance is seen as diminished in older adults, but in the case of martial arts,
the karate Sensei’s are the technical execution model. This leads us to question if in karate young
adults have better performance than older adults? Which in many cases are their Senseis’s. The aim
of this study was to analyze the effects of the aging process in the kinematic and temporal structure
of the frontal kick on veteran active karate practitioners.
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aging karate performance combat sports mae‐geri
Citation
Branco, M., VencesBrito, A., Rodrigues-Ferreira, M., & Branco, G. (2016). Athletes and their Sensei’s: did aging affect the lower limb kinematics in karate practitioners. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 11(2s), 30-31. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v11i2s.4157
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Universidad de León