Postural stability and hand preference as constraints on one-handed catching performance in children.

ABSTRACT. results of postural state and hand precedence as constraints on 1-handed catching performance were investigated in different ability assemblages of children aged 9-10 years. upon the basis of pretest data, the authors classified 48 participants into clusters of good, intermediate, and poor catchers (n = 16 in each) and asked them to perform 1-handed catches with their preferr and nonpreferred hands while standing and sitting. The beneficial catchers' performance was not affected through the imposed postural constraints on the contrary did improve when they used the preferr hand. A similar issue of ...