Relationship of Kinematic Variables with the Performance of uprise on rings in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is regulated by the rules framed by FIG (federation international de gymnastics). It is divided into men‟s and women‟s gymnastics. Each group has to do different events. Floor, pommel horse, rings, vaulting parallel bars, and high bar are men‟s events and vault, uneven bar, balancing beam and floor are women‟s events. The rings are also known as still rings and it is an artistic gymnastics apparatus it is used only by men, due to their extreme upper body strength requirements, gymnasts wear ring grips while performing on the ring. The event is conducted of two rings that hang freely from a metal frame. Each ring is supported by a strap, which has a steel cable, suspended from the metal frame. The gymnast when gripping the ring must control the movement of the ring an exercise on rings consist of swing, strength, and hold elements generally gymnasts arerequired to fulfil various requirements, and more experienced gymnasts will often perform more than are strength element. The objective was to investigate the relationship of the selected kinematic variablesand the performance of an uprise techniqueon the rings.

PROCEDURE

A purposive sampling technique was used for choosing highly skilled 5 national male gymnasts from Bhilwara Sports Council Gymnastics Center Rajasthan. Since the gymnast had been trained for a considerable period of time, they were considered skilled and their technique was treated as technically sound on the stated skill and stabilized. The purpose of the study was explained to all the subjects and were requested to put in their best during each attempt or trial. To achieve the objective of the study following variables were selected (A) Angular kinematic variables of Uprise on rings. 1. Angle of neck

5. Left ankle angle (B) Linear kinematic variables Uprise on rings. i) Height of C.G. at the opening of dislocation phase. ii) Height of C.G. at supporting phase The criterion measures for this study were the performanceand the skill was evaluated by qualified judges on the basis of FIG Code of Points, Angles were measured at selected joints and were recorded in the nearest degree, and the height of the center of gravity was recorded to the nearest centimeter. The test was administered to 5 male gymnast subjects of Bhilwara Rajasthan. Each subject was given 15 minutes time to perform their typical warm-ups and stretch routines. Once the subject was able to perform several upraise (forward to support) and comfortable in performing them in the provided setting, the data was recorded. The center of gravity of each body segment and the whole body andThe angle of various jointswere determined and analyzed by kinovea software. For the study, descriptive statistics and Pearson‟sproduct-moment correlation method were used. SPSS software was usedto finda correlation at 0.05 level.

Independent correlation was used to find out the relationship with the performance and the collected score of each selected angular and linear kinematic variable. The selected linear and angular kinematics variables with dependent variables are presented separately. Obtained values have been presented in table 1.

r.05(N-2)=0.878

The findingsrevealed, that the chosen linear kinematic variables failed toshow asignificant relationship withuprise techniquein all theselected phases. The major reason forsuch findingscould be that the performance of any games and sports depends uponso many other factors such as physiological ,physical , psychological factors,so it is multidimensional . Few chosen angular kinematic variables at all the four phases have not shownany significant relationship with the Uprise performance in men‟s artistic gymnastics. Though in gymnastics, these linear and angular kinematic variables are associated with the techniques but the whole performance regarding the skills and techniques consists of a variety of other dominating factors that influence the gymnast‟s performance to the extent. Smaller sample size, unavailability of sophisticated types of equipmentand level of performancecould also be one of the reasons forthe insignificant relationship.

On the basis of the findings following conclusions were drawn:

correlation value-.913 isgreater than tabulated value (0.878). The angle of left Wrist correlated significantly with the angle of Hip (.880) at 0.05 level.

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