Here’s a good story from my 1976 Olympics experience. At least how I remember it. After about a week of competition all the Australian athletes at the Olympic Games in Montreal were invited to a reception with the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser. Food and drinks, non-alcoholic of course, were available and while drinking a cup of coffee Mr. Fraser walked around … [Read more...]
Golf in the Olympics: Rio 2016
Here is bit of info on how golf will be integrated in to the Olympics in the US. The US Olympic Committee has all the Olympic Sports divided up into groups that teams of "performance specialists" work with; Technology, Biomechanics, Nutrition, Psych, Physiology etc. We call them Sportfolios. I am one of the sport technologists/biomechanists. Golf is in my sportfolio (along … [Read more...]
Analyzing the Golf Swing in 6 Degrees of Freedom with AMM 6DOF Systems
What is 6DOF? Six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) means you can move six ways; forward/backward, left/right, up/down; these movements are linear, determine your position and are measured in feet, inches, meters etc. You can also turn, plus bend forward/backward or side to side; these movements are angular, determine your orientation and are measured in degrees. When you measure … [Read more...]
BMW Velocity Measurement System: An Example of Technology we use at the US Olympic Committee
BMW is a corporate sponsor of the US Olympic Committee. Instead of just supporting us financially they also wanted to help technically. We had a meeting with them and decided that we needed a technology that could measure the running and take-off velocity of a long jump. So they developed a system for us. We are now using it at the training center in Chula Vista. Here is … [Read more...]
Pelvis and Thorax Transition plus Spine Rotation
Here is a detailed explanation of the pelvis and thorax kinematic sequence curves from TPI 3D, focused around transition. They display how transition occurs and there is a lot of information that can be gleaned from them. They relate directly to the spine rotation graph also. So for TPI 3D techies here we go. The two above graphs have time in seconds along the X-axis … [Read more...]