The Examination of the Relationship between Left-Handedness and Success in Elite Female Archers - Advances in Physical Education

APE > Vol.7 No.4, November 2017

Advances in Physical Education

Volume 7, Issue 4 (November 2017)

ISSN Print: 2164-0386 ISSN Online: 2164-0408

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The Examination of the Relationship between Left-Handedness and Success in Elite Female Archers ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ape.2017.74030 2,904 Downloads 4,127 Views Citations

Author(s)

Recep Gursoy¹, Suleyman Sahin², Mehmet Dalli³, Kursat Hazar⁴, Eser Aggon⁵

Affiliation(s)

¹Faculty of Sports Sciences, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey.
²Youth Services and Sports Provincial Directorate, Bursa, Turkey.
³Faculty of Sports Sciences, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey.
⁴Department of Physical Education, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey.
⁵Department of Physical Education, Erzincan University, Erzincan, Turkey.

ABSTRACT

Objective: This research was carried out in order to determine the hand and eye dominance (left-hand dominant or right-hand dominant) of the women participating in Turkish senior women’s archery championship and to find out whether there were any differences among the scores gained by the archers as general total and at the end of their 1^st and 2^nd 50-m target-based shootings when using compound bow. Method: 44 elite-level women archers under the Turkish Federation of Archery participated in the research. We determined the hand dominance and eye dominance of all participants. To determine hand and eye dominance, participants completed the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory-Short Form. According to that, 5 of the archers were left-hand dominant whereas 39 of them were right-hand dominant. A mini survey form was used in order to determine certain bio-motor (age, height, weight and sports age) characteristics of the archers. Results: Laterality might be one of the most significant factors for the archers to become successful. Thus, considering that left-hand dominant archers might gain competitive edge in the archer selection process, these archers can be considered to be advantageous for being selected. Sportive success can be enhanced if trainers attach a particular importance to and support these archers and if they consider this situation particularly during target-based shooting trainings. Furthermore, taking into consideration that left-hand dominant persons are more successful that right-hand dominant persons in certain sports branches, it can be said that, such persons must not be forced to use their right hand.

KEYWORDS

Hand Preference, Archer, Sports

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Gursoy, R. , Sahin, S. , Dalli, M. , Hazar, K. and Aggon, E. (2017) The Examination of the Relationship between Left-Handedness and Success in Elite Female Archers. Advances in Physical Education, 7, 367-376. doi: 10.4236/ape.2017.74030.

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