ABSTRACT
Sport Biomechanics is one of the main fields of Biomechanics of Human Movement in continuous expansion and consolidation in the wide field of Sport Sciences. Nowadays, many applied research projects are orientated to the evaluation of the athletes' technique in the totality of sports and sport modalities. Also, scientific research has contributed to design sport equipment with the highest quality standards. Furthermore the evolution of measurement systems and/or instrumentation chains enables researchers to quantify with much more precision the biomechanical efficiency in sport activities, identifying the main characteristics of the most productive individual technique, the trainable factors that influence on the performance, and, the mechanical loads on the muscle-skeletal system. Finally, the conception and design of technical solutions and aids for the disabled help them to compete improving their quality of life. Methodological advances in Sport Biomechanics (photo-instrumentation techniques, force plates, EMG, modelling and simulation techniques, etc.) allow for reaching a considerable level of scientific knowledge respect to the motor patterns displayed in most sport activities. However, not so much research applied to the analysis and evaluation of sport technique in shooting sports, namely, shooting and archery. Even if more than a hundred medals are shared in the Olympics and Paralympics.
