ABSTRACT
Much of our work as sports biomechanists involves the study and evaluation of how sports skills are performed. To analyse the observed movement ‘technique’, we need to identify important features of that technique. For a qualitative biomechanical
analyst, this means being able to observe those features of the movement; for the quantitative analyst, this requires measuring those features and, often, further mathematical analysis. As I explained in Chapter 1, the increasing demand from the real world of sport and exercise outside of academia – coaches, athletes and other practitioners – has generated an increasing demand for good qualitative movement analysts; this is, again, our main focus in this chapter.
