Ice Hockey Masks Design
Protection, comfort and exercise performance clothing assistance and sports activities
Protection, comfort and support for years SPORTSWEAR AND PERFORMANCE
Introduction
It was very traditional for people to be on clothing suited for sports that are made for obvious reasons that can meet the unique demands of sports. Clothes in life provides the decor, comfort and protection within the limits of decency. Note Middlemas (1997) that the fabric to decorate the body, hide defects and take support outerwear. Could reach a person has or the type of work performed or the origin of a person and loyalty. However, the clothing in sport combines these functions and is also distinguished individuals or computers between them, depending on the particular sport. Also offers an advantage psychological as well dressed individuals or teams get inner satisfaction which creates a sensation of feeling good, improve personality and self-esteem of the user (s).
According to Watkins (1984), dress is more intimate environment and making its environment unique with every individual, creating your own room and its own climate, the overall climate of our environment. Therefore, the need clothes in sport is still as important as the sporting environment is full of unique features which are injuries that occur.
Many situations are clothes that are still the best protection against impact. In contact sports, filling the body is the only viable source of protection or Garrick (1972), considered as a single problem and, although we can not completely avoid injuries produce situations where contact with another player Results of the alternative words is to accept the inevitability of injury-producing situations in the sport and try to reduce the likelihood of actual injury. For example, football helmets, shin guards and to limit and disperse the force of body contact. Similarly, new technologies such that the introduction of artificial turf took office and created the need for changes in protective clothing such as a fast and efficient avoid or new types of injuries that began to emerge. More importantly, increased activity in sports, requires a provision corresponding to greater freedom and security in the clothes to improve circulation and impact of the audit contact. It is a established fact that if people do not fight against your clothes which can be moved efficiently.
Collection Clothing in Sports
According to Garvin (2003), "exercise increases heat production. During exercise, both hot and cold, the dilemma is the dissipation of heat generated by muscle activity. The clothing is usually a layer of insulation and as such imposes a barrier to heat transfer and evaporation from the surface of the skin. The problem of clothing in sports probably stimulated the imagination of fashion designers, sports psychologists and coaches for as long as any other problem on the ground. However, the scope of the sports area creates clothing design approach which balances the creative process of strategic control and concerns aesthetic. In response, a new type of clothing brand has come to provide innovative solutions to problems in sportswear.
According to Watkins (1984), clothing in sport is seen as a scientific field that covers physics, psychology and kinesiology, which is closely related to anatomy, physiology and biomechanics. Perhaps the largest branch of kinesiology, which provides a useful basis for kinematics clothing designs which addresses the description of motion of the variable and the factors that cause the movement. Therefore, used for sportswear specific must protect the skin against damage, preventing the body from heat and cold in contact sports without contact. However, the change in dress is based on the particular sport, time, opportunity, social norms and values, etc. For purposes of this paper, clothing in sport is considered does not end with the hardware, but includes accompaniments and accessories such as shoes, socks, gloves, bracelets, masks, helmets, shields, belts, etc. and as required under the rules governing the sport and in accordance with standard specifications. Essentially, any treaty body alteration is apparently designed as clothing. For example, when a tennis player is wearing shorts and a white shirt and white canvas showing half the beauty an exclusive game considered the kings and queens would be fun to see a goalie hockey wearing a mask, gloves, boots and a "great" Shin. Both the clothing of tennis and hockey are unique, respectively, provide protection, comfort and mobility, but the accessories goalie hockey is intended to give protection conceal weaknesses because of the extra hazardous nature of the game and try to maintain optimum movement.
Gavin (2003) found "clothing may have a protective role by reducing the gain of radiant heat and heat stress." He said that recent research suggests that neither the inclusion of small amounts of clothing nor the clothing change thermoregulation or thermal comfort during exercise in warm conditions. He suggested that future research should include conditions that reproduce more outdoor conditions, where high work rate, larger airflow and high humidity can significantly affect thermoregulation.
Functions in clothing Sports
(a) Protection:
Clothing designed for use in sport is crucial to identify areas of the body the maximum exposure to provide the necessary protection. Use protective clothing is considered vital to ensure safety participants (DeJong, Ayers and Branson, 1985). The ability to protect the person or team remains paramount. Used clothes for a sport-tasking specific needs to protect the skin against damage and prevent the body from heat and cod. The weather plays an important role in the selection of dress clothing. Therefore, instead of the coach or physical education teacher at the choice of appropriate equipment to protect the individual (s) / Equipment condition hard time. However, protection and movement are often in conflict with the current team sports, because when the body is fully protected against impact, body movement is difficult or impossible and where the team placed no restrictions on the athlete, protection has often been sacrificed (Watkins, 1977).
(b) The comfort and mobility
Comfort and mobility are examined together because they are interrelated and when one is aware that the key element in sportswear is to maximize the movement (mobility), comfort and minimize generate discomfort, then the attempt to separate the two would fall. Easy Mobility is specifically related to the comfort and functionality. Jaffe (1979), believes that comfort with the sensation of air permeability and the amount of tissue electrostatic attraction, isolation thermal movement of the limbs. Muscles, bones and joints working in unison in the lever system and the mechanical forces that produce an advantage under the same conditions as other mechanical machines is to sand movement possible. Movement requires time, energy and space are also dependent on age, sexual health, race, body type, conditioning, fatigue, psychological factors – aesthetics May and motivation that influence the degree of movement. Therefore, to measure the success of all protective clothing, and each movement must be measure of t in the garment easily without undue effort.
Mobility is often reduced because the protection is greater in sportswear. Materials used in rigid foams in many items of protective equipment for sports such as custody of the hip belts, hip, shin guards, chest protectors, etc. Guard EGF may restrict movement. The possibility is that the more padding is added to the scope and speed of movement may be hampered (Watkinns, 1984). In any case, sports clothes always with a greater ability to expand and contact during movement of the body which increases mobility.
General Criteria for Apparel in Sports
DeJong, Ayers and Branson (1985), noted that clothing inappropriate left the team / person exposed and remain the main cause of acute and chronic dermal exposure and impact. Also Fayemi and Louise (1980), feel they are poorly dressed for leisure, for example, a game of tennis or football can be very uncomfortable and ridiculous. In this context, several authors (Peterson, 1977, Jaffe 1979, Watkins 1977, 1984, Dyson, 1971; Morchouse, 1971) attempted to establish criteria for f the use of clothing in sports. A standard expression is established.
In cold environments, clothing which:
- Sea of clothes made of textured fabrics or take several different garments, which are layers of layers so that the air spaces are based on a set of clothes. The thickness required can vary greatly in physical activity of an individual and the metabolic rate body core (BMR).
- Allow to air and water flow near the body surface so that moisture vapor can pass the organism in the environment and the sweat can be avoided.
- Absorb radiant energy from the environment and not be conductive so that body heat is not conducted for the environment.
- Allow freedom of movement (of so that your metabolism can be increased by physical activity).
- Save the center of the body, torso and head warm for you can send the excess heat to the extremities.
- Adjustable for protection of overheating that causes the sweat can be avoided.
Gavin (2003), noted that most reports are not compatible with an effect of clothing fabric on thermoregulation in the cold the reports demonstrate, however, recorded effect and concluded that the construction of clothing does not affect thermoregulation during and after exercise in water cold, where the grid construction provides better heat dissipation.
In hot weather, clothes should:
- Provide minimum cover for maximum ventilation and body.
- Avoid physical exertion additional increase metabolism.
- Being white or light colored to reflect sunlight to facilitate cooling by convection and evaporation of sweat, where outdoor exercise.
- Be of materials which can absorb sweat.
- So prevention is heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
- Allow freedom of movement.
It is relevant noting that in warm environments, additional clothing increases the insulation heat, causing a more rapid increase in temperature during exercise and imposes a barrier to the evaporation of sweat (Gavin, 2003).
Conclusion
Clothing remains a key sector in sport regardless of how heat acclimated or athletes are hydrated. Is the area that has fashion designers and manufacturers, athletes and coaches, as users and concerned by studies movement by making participation in other sports as safe as possible. Clothes in the sport offers protection, comfort and mobility and to achieve these goals, individuals, athletes and coaches must have sufficient knowledge of the selection and use and ensure optimal completion pattern.The of movement is that while the design of clothing in sport remains the preserve of fashion designers, sufficient knowledge of the selection and use to ensure optimal movement model is based only on users.
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About the Author
The author Peter Gbolagade Akintunde is a lecturer in University of Calabar, Nigeria. He has many articles in reputable journals and seven books in his area of specialization to his credit, head Cross River State Nigeria Association for Physical , Health Education, Recreation, Sports And Dance (NAPHER.SD) for 10 years and a consultant in Administration, Organization and Management of Sports and Fitness Programmes.
Charles Bassey O’Neil is an Exercise Physiologist in University of Calabar, succeeded Dr P.G. Akintunde as the Chairman of NAPHER.SD and still the incumbent chairmen, the first Chairman of Cross River State Sports Commission, and has many articles in renowned journals to his credit.
Department of Vocational and Special Education
Faculty of Education
University of Calabar
Calabar, Cross River State,
Nigeria.
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