Human Kinetics Library

Human Kinetics Library is a subscription-based database that allows students, researchers, and instructors access to a bundled collection of electronic textbooks, supplementary monographs, and videos previously available only as individual titles (labeled by the company as “a digital hub for sport and exercise studies”). The database is easy to navigate through its indexing and search tools. It is updated twice a year and includes an excellent help module. The many videos and images benefit college students and professors, personal trainers, rehabilitation specialists, athletes, coaches, physical educators, nutritionists and more.

Transcendence in the Kinanthropology of Manuel Sérgio

This article seeks to analyze the contribution of Portuguese philosopher Manuel Sérgio to Religious Studies. The author dedicated his long academic life to the study of sports, but with a peculiar humanistic perspective. Instead of focusing on performance, the author focuses on the Human being who moves. This is what he defines as “Kinanthropology”. Transcendence is a major element in this proposal. In this article, after presenting Sérgio’s fundamental anthropological framework and his understanding of “human kinetics”, three of his possible theoretical contributions to Religious Studies are explored: 1. in the way he sees the relation between transcendence and religion; 2. in the way he opens corporeity to transcendence; and 3. in the way he seems to rehabilitate motion as a topic for religious and theological discourse.

Finding Sport and Kinesiology

Learn how sport influenced Rainer Martens’s life and his epiphany to become a physical educator and coach, which led him to study sport psychology. The author briefly recounts his work in sport psychology and coaching education. Next, the author describes how he stumbled into publishing, founding Human Kinetics, and describes how this company helped define kinesiology and influence the broad field of physical activity. The author concludes by reporting on his continued involvement in sport and the development of two community centers that focus on sport and physical activity.

Análisis cinemático del rondat flic-flac

El objetivo del presente artículo es mostrar un análisis de los indicadores cinéticos y cinemáticos del ejercicio flic-flac de Rondat. Se ha realizado una investigación cualitativa y sistemática de la literatura correspondiente de los últimos veinte años considerando las siguientes fuentes: Google Academic, Elsevier, Medline, ScienceDirect y Journal of Human Kinetics. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que los valores de los indicadores de fuerza e inercia, así como los indicadores cinemáticos relacionados con la velocidad, el movimiento del centro de masa, el momento angular y el ángulo de torsión entre el hombro y el tronco, determinan la correcta ejecución del ejercicio flic-flac de Rondat. Esperamos que estos resultados sean útiles para capacitadores e investigadores de ejercicios acrobáticos como los analizados en el presente artículo.