A STUDY ON ASSESSING DECELERATION PHASE OF SPRINTING EVENT USING NEWLY CRAFTED ELECTRONIC DEVICE

We are living in a fashionable world. In this scientific era, each and every field was automated by the provision of electronic gadgets, which are extreme precise and persistent to bring out our determination successfully. The present investigator has crafted an electronic gadget to assess the deceleration phase of sprinting event which is a most important phase in sprint. Presently deceleration timings are not assessing in most of sprint event like district, divisional and state level programs due to lack of appropriate tools. The influence of deceleration proficiency of the athlete is high on the result of every sprinting event; in this phase minimum deceleration proficiency will lead to high performance, hence this is a vital part of the sprinting event. This motivated the investigator to craft an electronic device to findout accurate deceleration proficiency of sprinters. The device has some core parts as 1. Microphone 2. Infrared Transmitters, 3. Infrared Receivers 4. Interfacing Unit and Computer. The result of each and every invention should have scientific authenticity which is also indispensible at any circumstances. To attain scientific authenticity of the device, 120 subjects were chosen from Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore and the appropriate data were collected using the newly invented equipment when the subjects were participating in the 100m race. The collected data were treated with appropriate statistical techniques and obtained Reliability, Validity and objectivity of the device. Normally in 100mts sprint, starting point to 40mts prevailing as acceleration phase, 40mts to 80mts as flying sprint phase and 80mts to 100mts prevailing as deceleration phase, which is derived from the performance of international 100mts sprinting event performances.