… “Technology is awesome, and the coaching staffs that are in the younger generation is teaching — even myself — but teaching younger quarterbacks about defenses and how to read coverages,” Watson told reporters Wednesday. “If you have that right coach that can teach you about the knowledge of the game and put you around situations and put you through situations before you get in live situations, it really helps.”
Young aspiring pro quarterbacks have luxuries their grandfathers didn’t have. Want to learn about Cover 2? That’s three clicks away. What about diagnosing proper leverage? That’s four.
Brenden Aaronson’s inclusion into the the USMNT took a lot of people by surprise, but when you look at the upward trajectory he displayed in 2019 and the people he surrounds himself with, it shouldn’t have. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta spoke with the Philadelphia star rookie last week
The American has emphasized innovation since Rio, yet will find herself penalized at this week’s world championships for performing some of the most difficult skills ever attempted
In preparation for a game at Pittsburgh in Week 2, Russell Wilson watched a package of plays from his 2015 duel with Ben Roethlisberger. Crammed in a 4-minute, 22-second video were Wilson’s best throws from that wet November afternoon in Seattle, when he led the Seahawks to a shootout win by tossing five touchdown passes with no interceptions.
But this was not your typical film study. It didn’t take place inside the quarterbacks room at Seahawks headquarters, nor was Wilson’s position coach or offensive coordinator the one showing it to him.
Wilson was working with Trevor Moawad, a mental coach who, in his words, oversees the psychological architecture of Wilson’s career. Moawad is part of what Wilson calls his performance team. It includes a physical therapist, a personal trainer, a massage therapist, a yoga instructor/movement specialist and a personal chef.
One of my favorite things to do as a coach is take broad, abstract concepts and create left and right boundaries such that prescribing sessions and cycles for my athletes becomes more streamlined and consistent. Three such concepts are endurance, stamina, and work capacity. To some, those words describe the same thing. To others, myself included, they denote three distinct ideas. What follows is my point of view as I’ve experienced it within the tactical space, as well as some examples of how we apply these ideas independently within Uphill Athlete.
… Yet in a time of change there was a constant [Joe] Pavelski could fall back on in the Madison area — his summer home. For the last nine years, he has trained at UW in the offseason with Badgers strength and conditioning coach Jim Snider.
He has company. More than 20 players, most of them alumni of the Badgers men’s and women’s hockey teams, were part of Snider’s summer program this year.
For Pavelski, it’s a relationship and a familiarity with Snider that builds year to year.
We all know the discussions about a (new) player whose fitness level is lower than the rest of the team due to, for example, an injury or a late arrival in pre-season. Traditionally, coaches make this player do extra work to catch up with his teammates again. But is this really the best approach? Should a less fit player train more than his fitter teammates?
Proteus Digital Health’s ingestible pill and sensor system could improve medication adherence, and subsequently treatment, for patients with tuberculosis (TB), according to new data from an independent study conducted in California.
Imperial College’s Timothy Rawson has developed a non-invasive microneedle bionsor patch capable of detecting antibiotic levels in the body. The goal is to reduce the need for blood sampling and analysis, optimize dosage, reduce drug-resistant infections and offer personalized drug delivery, both inside and outside of the hospital. A recent study showed that the accuracy of the real-time monitoring technology was similar to slower, periodic blood tests.
The top-flight of Japanese soccer, J.League is using AI to create personalised highlight clips of Japanese football content. AI specialist WSC Sports is working with J.League to automatically generate and distribute tailored sports video content in near real-time.
… Thomas Insights spoke with Adam Petrus, regional manager of client services and operations for Zebra Sports at Zebra Technologies, about how they make RFID chips that can stand up to the high-impact nature of a football field.
Thomas Insights: How does the technology work?
Adam Petrus: Every stadium venue is outfitted with the receivers and antennas, and those are all aimed appropriately to have every inch of the field covered. The players wear RFID tags embedded into their shoulder pads, located just underneath the epaulets — every player has them.
The software is unique in the sense that every tag that’s located on a player is assigned to that player. Each player wears two tags: a left and a right. The down linemen wear a third tag just because they go down into a stance.
The Kannapolis City Council has approved incentives to the Charlotte-based, United States Performance Center (USPC) which could lead to the location of athletic training and research facilities on the North Carolina Research Campus.
The USPC has approached the City of Kannapolis and officials at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC), regarding the possibility of collaborating on a project which would partner athletes and researchers together to prepare athletes for the rigors of Olympic and professional competition. The proposed facility would include utilizing technology, athletic fields and research to provide: testing and training for athletes, developmental programs for coaches and youth, sports medicine rehab, tournaments for youth and developing athletes and more. The project was also considering a location in South Carolina before selecting Kannapolis.
… One way to stay focused, and make better decisions, is to build clean and clear processes before the season begins. Processes, which you know when the pressure is dialed up, you can rely on to take some comfort in the decisions you make. … One of CoachTech’s college clients, Division 2’s Gannon University, are currently enjoying a great start under new Head Coach, Billy Colton, now sitting with a perfect 7-0-0 record. In the summer, Colton knew he wanted to take the program a step further, and enrolled in CoachTech’s online courses, before following up about consultancy on his new program. Together, a post-game analysis and feedback process was designed.
“The State of Soccer Analytics” – panel discussion among Devin Pleuler, Tyler Heaps, and Will Spearman, with Seth Walder as moderator, at the 2017 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, held on Sept 28, 2019, at the Harvard University Science Center. [video, 1:23:59]