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A Comparison of the Habitual Landing Strategies from Differing Drop Heights of Parkour Practitioners (Traceurs) and Recreationally Trained Individuals
No full textParkour is an activity that encompasses methods of jumping, climbing and vaulting. With landing being a pertinent part of this practise, Parkour participants (traceurs) have devised their own habitual landing strategies, which are suggested to be a safer and more effective style of landing. The purpose of this study was to compare the habitual landing strategies of traceurs and recreationally trained individuals from differing drop heights. Comparisons between landing sound and mechanical parameters were also assessed to gauge the level of landing safety. Ten recreationally trained participants and ten traceurs performed three landings from 25% and 50% body height using their own habitual landing strategies. Results at 25% showed significantly lower maximal vertical force (39.9%, p < 0.0013, ES = -1.88), longer times to maximal vertical force (68.6%, p < 0.0015, ES = 1.72) and lower loading rates (65.1%, p < 0.0002, ES = -2.22) in the traceur group. Maximal sound was also shown to be lower (3.6%), with an effect size of -0.63, however this was not statistically significant (p < 0.1612). At 50%, traceurs exhibited significantly different values within all variables including maximal sound (8.6%, p < 0.03, ES = -1.04), maximal vertical force (49.0%, p < 0.0002, ES = -2.38), time to maximal vertical force (65.9%, p < 0.0067, ES = 1.32) and loading rates (66.3%, p < 0.0002, ES = -2.00). Foot strike analysis revealed traceurs landed using forefoot or forefoot-midfoot strategies in 93.2% of trials; whereas recreationally trained participants used these styles in only 8.3% of these landings. To conclude, the habitual landings of traceurs are more effective at lowering the kinetic landing variables associated with a higher injury risk in comparison to recreationally trained individuals. Sound as a measure of landing effectiveness and safety holds potential significance; however requires further research to confirm
An epistemology for interprofessional practice: exploring thinking and reasoning in health and social care
No full textPostgraduate professional education assists practitioners in gaining advanced knowledge and skills to more capably respond to the demands of rapidly changing and increasingly complex health and social care practice environments. The postgraduate programme in the Centre for Health and Social Practice at Waikato Institute of Technology begins this capability development by assisting practitioners to achieve a deeper understanding of how they think and reason in practice and recognise how they use and value sources of information in this process of reasoning. One of the challenges for interprofessional education at the postgraduate level is re-focusing the thinking of people whose undergraduate education has been taught within disciplinary silos such as nursing, social work, counselling, midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and teaching. Finding common ground for thinking and reasoning in practice that pays attention to the particular emphases of each profession and yet provides a common framework for reasoning in practice in an interprofessional context has been a challenge underpinning capability development for these experienced practitioners. (how to take them beyond what they have known)The conceptual framework for an interprofessional practice epistemology in this programme engages students in learning activities enabling them to conceptualise reasoning in practice within three strands, including propositional/empirical, experiential/embodied, situational/relational knowing. While all three elements of this framework have value in practice, different practitioners will foreground and background aspects of the framework, depending on the focus of their approach with a particular client or family. This presentation explores the experience of engaging postgraduate practitioners in teaching and learning activities to examine an interprofessional epistemology for practice development
Review of We’ll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick, by Kate McQuiston.
No full textReview of We’ll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick, by Kate McQuiston. The book addresses music and sound in Kubrick's films, including his manipulation of existing classical works
Musical direction of Student End Of Year Concert 2015
Get PDFMusical direction of Wintec Song Arranging class of 2015 End Of Year Concert 2015 titled "Dance to the Beat of the Rhythm of the Night". A public performance of students' final arrangements from the semester 1 paper.
The program, a selection of popular 15 tunes from 1960s - 2015 with the theme 'Dance', was devised to offer students the opportunity to hear their arrangements performed live by a small orchestra comprised of piano, guitar, bass and drums, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax and trombone and a string section of 3 1st violins, 2 second violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos.
Prior to this performance the students were only able to hear their work played as a computer-generated audio file (far from ideal) so the concert provided an invaluable 'real world' experience.
The performance was devised as a professional experience - the tutor acting as Producer and Musical Director/Conductor, the students becoming arrangers who also prepared their scores and instrumental parts ready for printing and performance within real-time deadlines to emulate a real-world work experience
Concert performance of choral works by Olsson, Vivaldi and Handel [Choir]
No full textParticipate as chorister in concert performance of works including Te Deum (Olson), Gloria (Vivaldi) and Zadok The Priest (Handel) as a member of the North Shore Camerata, (dir Jenny Firth) Takapuna, Auckland Sept 6 2015.
Study of the Olson, Vivaldi and Handel scores and rehearsal with the choir provided invaluable information towards the continued development of my own choral writing and my lecturing to composition students
Performance of 'Lest We Forget' program with Handel Consort and Quire
No full textParticipation as chorister Anzac Remembrance program with Handel Consort and Quire (Auckland) Sat 4 July Pitt St Church, Auckland and Sun 3 July 5 Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church Pukekohe, NZ
Included works by Stanford, Lassus, Pearsall, Handl, Whitacre, Purcell plus poetry readings.
Study of the scores and rehearsal with the choir provided invaluable information towards the continued development of my own choral writing and my lecturing to composition students
Is there any difference between distributions of cadmium in different soils with the same fertiliser history?
No full textCadmium (Cd) is a potentially biotoxic metal that can be absorbed by soils and plants. The amount of Cd in NZ soils has previously increased following application of phosphate fertilisers. Cd concentration in three soil types: Te Kowhai, Horotiu and Bruntwood is being investigated. All three soils often occur in the same paddock, so have the same fertiliser history. However, these soils have contrasting drainage and mineralogical characteristics. Two paddocks with all three soils were sampled (depth of 60 cm) from a dairy farm near Hamilton and Cd concentration was determined. Initial results suggested that total Cd in the poorly drained Te Kowhai was higher than in Bruntwood/Horotiu. In some topsoils, Cd concentrations were greater than 1 mgkg-1, which according to Tiered Fertiliser Management System, would require fertiliser management by a “balanced programme” to ensure that Cd will not exceed an acceptable threshold (1.8 mgkg-1) in the next 50 years