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Injury prevention: Individual factors affecting adult recreational snowboarders’ actual and estimated speeds on regular slopes

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  • Luis Carus
  • Isabel Castillo

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Speed is a main factor affecting the kinematic of snow-sports accidents and the degree of severity of the resulting injuries. The aim of this study was to measure on-slope actual maximum speeds of snowboarders and to assess their ability to accurately them with regard to individual factors such as gender, skill level, age and risk-taking behaviour and actual maximum speed. The data were obtained from a sample of 312 (67% male, 33% female) adult recreational snowboarders taking lessons in one of the major resorts in the Spanish Pyrenees. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship between maximal measured actual speed and estimated speed for all participants. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to estimate the impact of individual factors on both the snowboarders’ actual maximum speed and their error of estimation. The Pearson correlation coefficient between estimated and actual maximum speed was 0.52 (P

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  • Luis Carus & Isabel Castillo, 2021. "Injury prevention: Individual factors affecting adult recreational snowboarders’ actual and estimated speeds on regular slopes," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(2), pages 1-11, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0246931
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246931
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    1. Luis Carus & Xhevrije Mamaqi-Kapllani, 2023. "Managing Accident Prevention in Ski Resorts: Participants’ Actual Velocities in Slow Zones," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(7), pages 1-12, March.

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