PART I: Football Actions 1. Does biomechanical evidence support coaching cues of kicking? HIROYUKI NUNOME 2. The support leg motion as a great contributor to football kicking KOICHIRO INOUE 3. The biomechanics of place kicking in Rugby Union NEIL BEZODIS, ALEXANDRA ATACK AND STACY WINTER 4. Impact in ovoid ball kicking KEVIN BALL 5. Biomechanical characteristics of the long throw-in HIRONARI SHINKAI PART II: Direct Free Kicks 6. Aerodynamics of modern footballs TAKESHI ASAI 7. Impact phase of the knuckle shot HONG SUNGCHAN AND TAKESHI ASAI 8.
How to kick the knuckle shot: Ball impact characteristics of top professional players and its application for training HIRONARI SHINKAI AND NEAL SMITH Part III: Footwear 9. Kicking accuracy can be influenced by soccer shoe design EWALD M. HENNIG & KATHARINA ALTHOFF 10. Biomechanical and motor performance differences between female and male soccer players: Influences on the game and recommendations for gender specific footwear KATHARINA ALTHOFF & EWALD M. HENNIG 11. Plantar pressure distribution patterns during soccer specific movements ERIC EILS 12. Influence of traction on running performance and lower extremity loading of soccer players: Interplay of shoes, surfaces and training THORSTEN STERZING 13 Boot-turf interaction during a 180° cutting movement on artificial turf when wet and dry DIRK DE CLERCQ, GIJS DEBUYCK, ALISON SHEETS, JOERI GERLO, STIJN RAMBOUR, VEERLE SEGERS & INE VAN CAEKENBERGHE PART IV: Skill Acquisition and Training 14. Technique Modifications to Create More Powerful Kicking Actions in Experienced Players NEAL SMITH 15.
Skill change in elite-level kickers: Interdisciplinary considerations of an applied framework HOWIE CARSON, PHILIP KEARNEY & DAVE COLLINS PART V: Artificial Turf 16 Critical issues of shock absorbing property and its detection test of long pile artificial turf in football HIROYUKI NUNOME 17. Artificial turf in football: An injury perspective GERDA STRULZENBERGER, LEN NOKES & GARETH IRWIN 18. Artificial turf in football: A performance perspective GERDA STRULZENBERGER, WOLFGANG POTTHAST & GARETH IRWIN Epilogue Index.