Hockey is one of the
fastest and it is considered one of the fastest
sports because a majortiy of players can skate up to 32 km per hour (20
miles per hour) on a rink that is 61 meters long (200 ft) and 26
meters (85) wide. Rink sizes can vary, for instance the rink that UAF
hockey team skates on for home games is 200 ft by 100 ft. Since a good
skater can accelerate quickly it doesn't take long to reach their top
speed and one can quickly go from one end of the ice to the other in a
few seconds. Besides that in Hockey one can stop skating and
still be
gliding at a relatively fast pace. With 10 players on the ice
,excluding the goalies, constatnly moving one as to be constantly
thinking because anything can happen at any given time. So everyone of
the players have to rely on there reaction times to catch a pass, deek
a defensive player, get out of a sticky situation, and many more.
Goalies rely on reaction times more than the offensive and defensive players because they are constantly getting pounded with shots that can range from barely moving to 120 miles per hour from distances ranging from the blue line and closer.
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Goalies rely on reaction times more than the offensive and defensive players because they are constantly getting pounded with shots that can range from barely moving to 120 miles per hour from distances ranging from the blue line and closer.
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Reaction Times are heavily based
on the reflexes, and reflexes can vary from person to person.
Reflexes depend on the type of shape a person is in, gender,
intelligence and the type of reflex. Humans usually react faster
to sound reflexes, with touch in second, and visual in last.
Reflexes are usually tested with the good old knee trick where the
docter taps the tendon right beneath the knee cap, and a good response
time is usually 0.05 seconds. A way to test how good ones
reflexes are one needs to find a ruler and a partner. Have
your partner hold up the ruler vertically from the top and place the
bottom of the ruler between you index finger and thumb. Tell your
partner to let go of the ruler at anytime without warning, and make
sure you don't cheat by watching their hand and anticapating when your
partner will let go. Once the ruler is dropped and caught, record
the distance that your thumb and index finger land on when you caught
the ruler.
With the equation
we can take the
distance in meters and plug into the equation. If one grabs the
ruler at the 16 cm mark, we would convert that to meters which would be
0.16 meters and plug it in where d is. One should get 0.18
seconds for their reaction time, a majority of people usually get
between 15 and 25 cms which varies between 0.18s to 0.23s.
With the equation
we can take the
distance in meters and plug into the equation. If one grabs the
ruler at the 16 cm mark, we would convert that to meters which would be
0.16 meters and plug it in where d is. One should get 0.18
seconds for their reaction time, a majority of people usually get
between 15 and 25 cms which varies between 0.18s to 0.23s. | Home | Hockey Intro | The Ice | The Hockey Stick | Bibliography |