Title: Effects of athletic footwear on plantar force during rope skipping

Authors: Hai-Bin Yu; Chottidao Monchai; Yung-Shen Tsai

Addresses: School of Physical Education, Quanzhou Normal University, China; Department of Sports Sciences, University of Taipei, Taiwan ' Department of Sports Sciences, University of Taipei, Taiwan; College of Sports Science and Technology, Mahidol University, Thailand ' Graduate Institute of Sports Equipment, University of Taipei, No. 101, Sec. 2, Jhongcheng Rd., Shinlin District, Taipei City 11153, Taiwan

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the plantar force and ground reaction forces of different rope skipping conditions with different sport shoes. Ten subjects were instructed to skip rope with one leg condition (OC) and two legs condition (TC). The conditions included the Novel Pedar-X system was used to collect plantar force information beneath the foot inside the sports shoes. Vertical ground reaction forces (VGRF) of each skip were measured on a force platform. The mean values of each group were calculated for comparison. It was found that the vertical ground reaction force TC (4.46 BW run-shoe and 4.27 BW jump-shoe) were greater than OC (3.18 BW run-shoe and 3.51 BW jump-shoe) (p < 0.001). The results showed that OC with two shoes were significant higher than TC in all the variables of interest of Novel Pedar-X system. The force distribution patterns among two shoes were similar. During landing of rope skipping, plantar force occurred mainly at metatarsal head and hallux and lateral toes.

Keywords: biomechanics; jumping rope; landing; plantar kinetics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJECB.2018.092260

International Journal of Experimental and Computational Biomechanics, 2018 Vol.4 No.2/3, pp.184 - 195

Received: 06 Feb 2017
Accepted: 18 May 2017
Published online: 12 Jun 2018 *

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