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Published online 25 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060123-7
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How to throw a soccer ball
Physicists reveal how best to get speed and distance with a throw-in.
Researchers have managed to confirm what many football players have already worked out: when it comes to throwing a soccer ball far and fast, the usual rules of projectile maths don't necessarily apply.
The study, by sports scientists Nicholas Linthorne and David Everett at Brunel University in Uxbridge, UK, also holds some tips for soccer coaches as to how to get the best from their long-throwing players.
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