ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to provide an understanding of the use of cinematography and video analysis in the study of sports movements, including the equipment and methods used. After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
• understand the importance of cinematography and video analysis in the study of sports movements;
• undertake a qualitative video analysis of a sports technique of your choice and plan how you would carry out a quantitative video analysis of that technique;
• understand the important features of cine and video equipment for recording movements in sport;
• outline the advantages and limitations of two-and three-dimensional recording of sports movements;
• list the possible sources of error in recorded movement data; • describe and implement experimental procedures that would
minimize measurement inaccuracy in a study of an essentially twodimensional movement;
• appreciate how these procedures can be extended and modified to record a three-dimensional movement;
• understand the need for, and the ways of performing, smoothing and filtering of kinematic data;
• appreciate the need for accurate body segment inertia parameter data, and ways in which these can be obtained;
• describe a three-dimensional convention for specifying segment position and orientation.
