XII th International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming に参加して

Abstract

The organising committee for BMS2014 is proud to welcome the delegates of the XIIth International Symposium for Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming. It is an honour for us as the organising committee, for the Australian Institute of Sport, for Swimming Australia and for the John Curtin School of Medical Research to host this unique conference and to provide this Book of Proceedings as a hard copy record of presentations. We believe that BMS XII provides access for aquatic investigators, technicians, practitioners and coaches to the advances in aquatic science and medicine since BMS 2010 in Oslo.The International Symposium for Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming remains the most prestigious of all international aquatic oriented scientific congresses. It has also retained its’ high ideal of the peer review process, that is essential to scientific progress. Every submission has had the benefit of expert critique. Twelve times now, BMS has presented cutting edge research in a variety of disciplines and aquatic sports. Each time the challenge has been to present the best possible overview of the most important developments in the four year period since the previous BMS symposium.The first symposium was held in Brussels in 1970 and it has now been held in eleven different countries and on both sides of the Atlantic. This conference is the first BMS symposium to be held in the southern hemisphere and in the Australasian region. BMS has a unique place in sport science and medical research dealing with the aquatic sports and has a proud tradition. The series of twelve published BMS Proceedings books has formed the backbone of literature in aquatic research for over four decades. These are a collection of peer reviewed scientific papers commanding considerable respect and as such serves as a valuable resource for all who are interested in keeping up to date with aquatic research. While the majority of papers at BMS2014 lie within biomechanics, then physiology followed by medicine, other disciplines are also represented including nutrition, the social sciences and pedagogy. Because of the expertise in the Australian Institute of Sport and Australian Swimming, coaching has been included as a separate distinct discipline in BMS2014.The first edition of the proceedings (1971) gathered an intellectually rich mixture of the early pioneers, the established researchers and young, aspiring investigators. It read like the Who’s Who of aquatic research, including the pioneers T.K. Cureton Jr. who already in 1930 had published a biomechanical analysis of the crawl kick. It also included established researchers of the day such as Dr James ‘Doc’ Counsilman who introduced us to Bernoulli’s principle as a possible explanation for propulsion in swimming and Dr Per-Olof Astrand who introduced the first swimming flume. Dr Leon Lewillie, Dr Barthels and Dr Adrian introduced underwater electromyography to the delegates. Dr Mitsumasa Miyashita and Dr Richard Nelson presented, at that time, sophisticated analyses of the crawl.The BMS2014 Symposium includes 74 poster presentations, 115 oral presentations overall, two workshops and two poolside demonstrations are provided for the coaching stream and four poolside demonstrations for the general conference delegates. Also, eleven keynote speakers presented outstanding lectures to the audience. The keynote speakers were Senior Coach Bill Sweetenham and Dr Andrei Vorontsov in the coaching stream, Dr Frank Fish and Dr Raymond Cohen (CFD) in the biomechanics area, Dr Phillippe Hellard in physiology, Professor David Costill in nutrition, Professor Peter Fricker in medicine, Peter Blanch in physiotherapy, Professor Stephen Langendorfer in the social sciences and Professor Robert Newton in strength and development.