Here is a video of some good shoulder exercises I developed for myself. They have helped with my shoulder rehab. My athletes at the training center have used them, as have my gymnasts at trampoline and tumbling. They are small range of motion acceleration/deceleration exercises that will warm up, activate and strengthen your rotator cuff muscles and the bigger shoulder … [Read more...]
How I Helped Start the Australian Institute of Sport…. Just Saying!
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...]