Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer can be seen on October 9 in a Bayerischen Rundfunk (BR) broadcast. In the TV magazine "Health!", the full professor at the Chair of Movement Science analyzes parameters of body control with slacklining using sport-scientific measuring techniques. The transmission will be sent from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m.
"Body control is very important in everyday life, because we are constantly in situations in which we need different abilities, especially in the field of balance," says Prof. Hermsdörfer. An example for this would be standing in a train which is beginning to move. Slackline is a kind of sport which strongly demands athleticism. "This type of sport is very complex, because not only are there a great number of balancing parameters in demand, but there is also the reaction to external influences," explains Prof. Hermsdörfer.
Shooting the film in the Prevention & Performance Lab (PPL)
For the transmission, BR reporter Veronika Keller was compared with the professional slackliner Lukas Irmler. The 30-year-old holds a number of different world records, for example walking the highest slackline at a height of 5,721 meters or the first slackline between two frozen waterfalls.
The shooting with the measuring technique took place in the "Prevention & Performance Lab (PPL)" of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences. By means of a camera-based Vicon system, each movement by reporter Keller and by the professional Irmler was recorded and then digitally modelled. For this modelling, a total of 39 markers were placed on various joints of each of the two. Thus, among other things, one can determine the center of gravity and one can see how this moves relative to the slackline. However: Does one recognize a difference between the two of them? The results of the measurement are arranged in the transmission by Hermsdörfer and presented on the coming Tuesday evening.
To the Homepage of the Chair of Movement Science
To the Homepage of the BR-transmission - Health!
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer
Chair of Movement Science
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62
80992 Munich
Telephone: 089 289 24550
Email: Joachim.Hermsdoerfer(at)tum.de
Text: Dr. Fabian Kautz
Photo: Dr. Fabian Kautz, BR