GUIGNARD, Brice, ROUARD, Annie, CHOLLET, Didier, HART, John, DAVIDS, Keith and SEIFERT, Ludovic (2017). Individual-environment interactions in swimming: The smallest unit for analysing the emergence of coordination dynamics in performance? Sports Medicine, 47 (8), 1543-1554.
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Abstract
Displacement in competitive swimming is highly dependent on fluid characteristics,
since athletes use these properties to propel themselves. It is essential for sport
scientists and practitioners to clearly identify the interactions that emerge between
each individual swimmer and properties of an aquatic environment. Traditionally, the
two protagonists in these interactions have been studied separately. Determining the
impact of each swimmer’s movements on fluid flow, and vice versa, is a major
challenge. Classic biomechanical research approaches have focused on swimmers’
actions, decomposing stroke characteristics for analysis, without exploring
perturbations to fluid flows. Conversely, fluid mechanics research has sought to
record fluid behaviours, isolated from the constraints of competitive swimming
environments (e.g. analyses in two-dimensions, fluid flows passively studied on
mannequins or robot effectors). With improvements in technology, however, recent
investigations have focused on the emergent circular couplings between swimmers’
movements and fluid dynamics. Here, we provide insights into concepts and tools that
can explain these on-going dynamical interactions in competitive swimming within
the theoretical framework of ecological dynamics.
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