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For Better Biomechanical Understanding in the Future
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The purpose of this presentation has been to describe biomechanically actions in soccer mainly from point of view of skills. Emphasis has been addressed also for soccer boots, ground surfaces and shin guards. An important area of biomechanics including of soccer skills and environmental factors is muscle action especially during the technical performances. Muscle action and the regulation of neuromuscular functions is the basis of motor learning. The biomechanical principles and characteristics introduced in this paper are consequences of the mentioned total action and indirect proof for coaches from the internal mechanics of the player.

The progressive levels of biomechanics applied to soccer could be in the future as follows:

  • How biomechanics could be applied to teaching and coaching of motor skills in soccer
  • What are the basic biomechanical principles in practice for soccer
  • How to identify errors in motor performances in soccer
  • What are the motor patterns of technical skill performances
  • How to do simple qualitative analysis for individual skills (technique) and team skills (tactics) in practice
  • How the mechanism of error corrections works efficiently in practice separately from point of view of the coach and player
  • perception => memory => comparison => to the right performance => correction => short time memory => gaining => stable memory => skillful performance
  • What kind of qualitative studies soccer coaching requires for the progress of soccer in the future
  • How to apply qualitative research in team selection, what are the excluding measures
  • How to develop soccer boots
  • How to develop natural grass pitches
  • How to develop synthetic artificial grass material
  • How to interpret all the research results of sports studies and how to apply these results to soccer

There is little objective knowledge available to say what is the best way to teach, train and learn all individual skills in soccer. Known theories of motor learning has been applied and methodologies builded up. The comparison of achieved results has been objectively impossible. However, the success in different international championship competitions reflects, where the total educational system produce high level results. This total educational system includes them the total amount of population of players in soccer, selection of talent players, organization in soccer schools and clubs, serie system, education of coaches, quantity and quality of gen-eral specific and individual training, etc.

It is valuable for soccer that each player, for each skill, will exhibit a different pattern of movement dependent upon his morphology and the imposed environmental and functional factors. Only in single and simple movements the pattern intends to be consistent. Additionally the level of skill for each player and type of skill will influence the total pattern of movement.

Systematic analysis of skills should lead to the facilitation of development of skills. This is reasonable, because

  1. The player learns a systematic form of self-controlled movement analysis
  2. The trainer understands and identifies the specific and important components of the movement and thus has a mean of generalizing for instruction
  3. The trainer can focus upon components of skill most relevant to the individual performer, to the performer's level of skill and to the specific skill
  4. Evaluation of movement and feedback appropriate to the skill and player are more easily identified
  5. New dimensions of skill learning can be assessed