When designing landing tasks for both training and research, it is essential that the landings tasks accurately represent the sports specific skills they aim to simulate so that these skills can be translated to the desired sport. Investigating land-based landing tasks in a laboratory environment has provided objective insight to the mechanisms of acute lower limb injuries, which frequently occur in sports such as volleyball and netball. Although surfers also incur acute lower limb injuries, replicating the demands of the landing phase of surfing manoeuvres in laboratory or dry-land training situations to understand the mechanisms of these injuries is difficult because surfing is typically performed in an unpredictable and ever-changing environment. In order to maximise the ecological validity of any research, the experimental tasks must accurately simulate the sporting task they aim to replicate. The aim of this study was therefore to determine which drop height most closely simulated the landing phase of floaters performed in surfing.
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