1. • We would request that you prepare a 10-15
minute powerpoint presentation that provides
an overview of your applied support to
athletes, identifying examples of good
practice. I would also like you to identify the
technologies with which you are competent
and suggest how you would apply your skills
to inform the needs of one of the following
sports (any discipline in athletics, squash,
table tennis, fencing, swimming)

2. Technology Capability Overview
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Dartfish
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Coding, athlete naming, databasing
Qualitative and Quantitative measures
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Annotations, audio, timers, angles, ovelays, moisac
Dartfish Express
Dartfish TV- Document sharing
– Online collaboration
– Varying access
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Sports Code
Sportscode Stream
Green Eye (Swimming Australia)
– Training and Race profiling
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Gpsport- Setup
Thought Technology- Coach feedback, deep breathing technique athletes
Online databasing Technologies
Training Centre Development- Various Industries
Mac, PC, Mobile Devices

3. Applied Support Overview
• Integration of wireless microphones with coded video footage in
football matches.
• Split Screen footage: Coaches boat and on board integrated with
microphones.
• Creation of imagery mp3 files for Athlete Ipods.
• Coach analysis: coded footage analysis coaching style behaviours
• Athlete body language/attitude analysis
• Online, portable device dynamic warm-up and stretching videos
(Hockey/Netball)
• Live feedback in the gym
• Analysis of sailing race to help determine best practice conditioning
• Collection of game statistics to help develop conditioning program

4. Positive Performance Cycle
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Learning about Athlete
Identification of needs
Technology for Environment/Needs
Procedures for Performance Environment
Delivery of outcomes

5. Learning about the athlete
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VTS- Psychomotor testing
Fitness test results
Game results and player statistics
Medical and Injury data
Strength & Conditioning programs
Personal bests
Periodisation and yearly plans
Training schedules

6. Identification of Needs
• Communication to determine Service
outcomes:
– Coaching Staff
– Service providers
– Athletes learning style

7. Performance Environment Technology
• IP cameras- Set to central location always recording
• Matrix Switchers/ Presets
• Ipads with Dartfish express, tagging, databasing such as
smatabase to collect relevant data.
• Smartboards for live replay and coaching
• Dartfish laptop for in the action and regular analysis (
Future development with smartabase for swimming)
• GreenEye software for race profiling and training
camps

8. Performance Environment Procedures
• What will be analysed?
• Who's role to capture data?
• What camps/Competition will need to be
covered?
• Training Analysis, When , Where , How?

9. Delivery of outcomes
• Coach Team sessions
• Athlete sessions- VTS – Delivery medium
• Online and LAN Network
• Better you get to know athletes/Coach more outcomes
occur

10. We are not in a position in which we have nothing
to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, and callings.
Abraham Maslow
A founder of positive and motivational psychology

11. PAs must be motivators
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It is not always enough to be knowledgeable about
a Performance Analysis. You also have to be able to
motivate and relate.
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By tapping into this important human characteristic
a PA becomes a person who leads and inspires
throughout the learning process to create a desired
outcome.
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Driving Example

12. Personable Skills
• Ability to work with all ages of people
• Ability to adapt to various situations and apply
my skills to any environment.
• Coaching people how to drive whilst dealing with
stressful situations, ability to identify when
people are stressed.
• Using the sandwich technique for feedback
• Coaching skills, short and concise
• Understanding of Learning styles
• Attention

13. Example delivery outcomes
• Split cam underwater •
camera
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• Integrated force plate •
data
• Heart rate data
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integration
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• Stroke count
• Velocity
• Split Times
Dive length
Reaction time
Optimum angle of
take off dive
Turn time
Underwater analysis

15. PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
DASHBOARD
• SMARTABASE’s most popular online reports module
• Just like the dashboard of a car, all key data is represented
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Most recent results for key data areas
Colour coded performance standards
Time since last test
Change status – using
powerful performance
algorythms
– Top down approach –
all linked to actual data
forms

16. PERFORMANCE ALERTS
• Facebook, Athlete forum, Twitter
• Automated alerts for any data in the system
– Improvements/personal bests
• Alerts sent via email, SMS and
on site to athletes and coaching staff

17. Aspire
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Kids 12-18
Train twice a day for an hour and a half
Stride length –stride frequency (athletics)
Set autonomous, feedback loops, av switch board
Online systems, late night feedback, camp support
Competition support
Motivation / technology
paddymills88@hotmail.com
Camp / situations working away
Swim calander