Contemporary Swim Start Research

This conference book includes contemporary reports and corresponding studies on swim starts conducted by young scientists from around the world. The various topics relate to individual starts from the block, backstroke starts, and relay starts, highlighting different aspects and phases of the corresponding movement behavior. Most of the reports published in this book have been presented during the 2015 Young Experts Workshop of Swim Start Research supported by the Federal Institute of Sport Science in Germany.

DR. SEBASTIAN FISCHER is a lecturer and instructor at the Institute for Sports and Sport Science at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research focus is on pool swimming, the corresponding training methods, and the biomechanics of swimming. In particular, Dr. Fischer's work relates to the biomechanical principles in swim starts and turns. DR. ARMIN KIBELE is a professor at the University of Kassel, Germany, and an adjunct professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is a chairholder for Movement Science and Exercise Science at the Institute for Sports and Sport Science in Kassel with a particular focus on swim start research, instability strength training, and unconscious information processing for action control under time pressure in game sports and combat sports.