Pressure Sensors for Measuring the Grip Pressure during Kendo Attacks: Assessment of Laterality and Evidence of the Five Phases of Attack

Author:

Jeong Kwangyul1,Tan Adin Ming2,Asai Takeshi3ORCID,Koda Kunihide3,Fuss Franz Konstantin1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Chair of Biomechanics, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany

2. Smart Equipment Engineering and Wearable Technologies Research Program, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia

3. Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0821, Japan

Abstract

In Kendo, there is no consensus as to which hand should produce more pressure when attacking the opponent with the bamboo sword, let alone how to teach the pressure distribution during coaching. There is the theory that a Kendo attack can be divided into five phases, which has not entered the coaching practice, either. The aim of this study was to measure the grip pressure during Kendo attacks, investigate the pressure distribution between the two hands, and find evidence for the existence of the alleged five attack phases. We instrumented a bamboo sword with grip pressure sensors and investigated the grip pressure in 23 participants. In all attack targets and in both hands, the pressure across all attack phases was significantly different. In general, the left-hand pressure was consistently and significantly higher than the right-hand one, across all five attack phases, for the hand, head, and flank attack targets. The surprising exception was the throat target with only two attack phases, the strike phase of which showed a greater pressure in the right hand. Across all participants, the left-hand pressure was greater in 60.22–100% in any phase of the four attack targets, except for the strike phase of the throat target. Through these results, we could verify the effect of the teaching customs in Kendo, as well as provide first-time evidence of the existence of the five attack phases.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry

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