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BIOMECHANICS DISABILITY SWIMMING Figure 9. Isokinetic Testing
implications. Coaches and support staff are encouraged to consider how the results from these projects can be used to inform their own professional practice.
SUMMARY All athletes on the British Disability Swimming World Class Pathway programme have access to world class coaching and a coordinated network of support services that includes biomechanics. The biomechanics support provision consists of biomechanical assessments and interventions, which employ qualitative and quantitative assessment
interpreting race data, and the use of underwater video in the coaching environment.
Information from the applied
research projects is regularly disseminated to coaches and to all other support staff, via Delivering-on- Deck Project notes. These are short documents that report the rationale for the project, the test protocols used, the key findings and their practical
TH THE AUTHOR
Dr Carl Payton PhD is a senior lecturer and the subject leader in sport biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan University, U
in sport biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan UK. He is High Performance Sport Accredited by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and a former
chair of the biomechanics section of this association. His research and scientific support interests are in sports performance, with a particular focus on the biomechanics of elite swimmers with a disability. He has led the delivery of biomechanics support services to athletes on British Disability Swimming World Class programmes since 2000.
techniques in training and in competition, applied research projects, which provide an evidence base for the assessments and interventions, and coach mentoring and support.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their contribution to the work described in this paper: Dr Danel Daly, Dr Ian Kennedy, Mr Gregory Lecrivain, Ms Casey Lee, Mr Georgios Machtsiras, Dr Roozbeh Naemi, Mr Conor Osborough, Professor Ross Sanders, Dr Arezki Slaouti.
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