title: Determination of external forces in alpine skiing using a differential global navigation satellite system.
abstract: In alpine ski racing the relationships between skier kinetics and kinematics and their effect on performance and injury-related aspects are not well understood. There is currently no validated system to determine all external forces simultaneously acting on skiers, particularly under race conditions and throughout entire races. To address the problem, this study proposes and assesses a method for determining skier kinetics with a single lightweight differential global navigation satellite system (dGNSS). The dGNSS kinetic method was compared to a reference system for six skiers and two turns each. The pattern differences obtained between the measurement systems (offset ± SD) were -26 ± 152 N for the ground reaction force, 1 ± 96 N for ski friction and -6 ± 6 N for the air drag force. The differences between turn means were small. The error pattern within the dGNSS kinetic method was highly repeatable and precision was therefore good (SD within system: 63 N ground reaction force, 42 N friction force and 7 N air drag force) allowing instantaneous relative comparisons and identification of discriminative meaningful changes. The method is therefore highly valid in assessing relative differences between skiers in the same turn, as well as turn means between different turns. The system is suitable to measure large capture volumes under race conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Performance, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0806, Norway. matthias.gilgien@nih.no
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gilgien
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spörri
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chardonnens
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kröll
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017276:Friction; D040362:Geographic Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D012865:Skiing / Q000502:physiology*; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
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