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Eight national-level junior speed skaters performed standardized simulated skating movements on a slideboard while wearing sixteen six-axis inertial measurement units (IMUs) and Pedar-X in-shoe plantar-pressure insoles. Joint-angle trajectories and plantar-pressure signals were temporally synchronized and preprocessed using a Kalman-based multimodal state-estimation approach. Third-order polynomial regression models were applied to examine the nonlinear relationships between hip\u2013knee joint angles and plantar loading across four distinct movement phases. The results demonstrated consistent coupling patterns between angular displacement and peak plantar pressure across phases (R2 = 0.72\u20130.84, p &lt; 0.01), indicating coordinated behavior between joint kinematics and plantar kinetics during simulated skating movements. 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