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10th March, 2008 Congratulations NZ Black Caps
The New Zealand Black Caps cricket team claimed the first test of three with a victory over England at the weekend, siliconcoach congratulates the team.Both the England and NZ teams are supporters and users of siliconcoach, it is fair to say that the use of siliconcoach was more evident in the bowling than the battting though!
4th March, 2008 Cycling Australia Embraces siliconcoach
At the recent Australian Track Cycling Championships ,Conrad Pearson, siliconcoach’s Asia/Pacific Product Manager, demonstrated timeWARP as a tool for assisting the Commissars (judges) in officiating during events. Using the simple but powerful tool allowed the judges to instantly replay points of interest in races without having to stop recording and rewinding tape as was previously the case. The tagging feature of the software meant that they didn’t have to take their eyes off the races at key times, but rather were able to review possible infringements immediately after the race or during “slow” non sprint laps in ...
27th February, 2008 UK Olympic coach praises siliconcoach at ISPAS conference
At the recent ISPAS (International Society for Performance Analysis in Sport) conference at Headingley Carnegie Stadium, delegates were given an insight into the use of siliconcoach at the highest levels of sport. Martin Laws, International Performance Coach for Trampolining and coach to Gary Smith, finalist in the 2004 Olympics, discussed how he integrates siliconcoach software into training to enhance the performance and monitor the development of his athletes.
Delegates were able to watch Gary’s performance in the Athens final and then see how siliconcoach software was used in the lead up to the event to ensure that technical faults ...
26th February, 2008 Rugby it's all about rugby
siliconcoach we will be launching a program to focus purely on the global rugby market in 2008.Haagon East, Key Projects Manager, will head up siliconcoach's assault on the rugby market.Haagon comments, "siliconcoach is currently used by many of the worlds top rank nations including England, Australia, New Zealand, and a number of Super 14 franchises and Premiership clubs, we believe that siliconcoach has a number of great offerings that can genuinely assist coaches and players alike". Haagon, himself a former NZ secondary schools and Universities representative, and having recently worked with the All Blacks to create rugbysportswizards ...
20th February, 2008 Australian surfers using siliconcoach
Martin Dunn is one of Australia's most successful and innovative surfing coaches. He shares his knowledge, gained through working with Australia's champion surfers over an 18 year period through hands on and online coaching from his NSW home of Old Bar.
For over 5 years Martin has been using siliconcoach to help his analysis and coaching of some of Australia’s and the world’s best surfers. The screen recording feature even allows Martin to review video sent to him from around the world. He receives their clips, can review and analyse and then package up reports and ...
4th February, 2008 ECB county coaches get tips from siliconcoach team
The siliconcoach UK team have recently completed a third series of training workshops in partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board. As a follow-up to a series of successful workshops held with First-class counties and national coaching staff in 2006/7, this latest round of training was attended by over 35 coaches from regional county cricket clubs, many of whom currently work with young emerging players at development level around the country.
The workshops, held at Headingley Indoor Cricket Centre, Lords Cricket Ground, Somerset County Cricket Club, and The ECB National Cricket Centre in Loughborough, were designed to introduce ...
25th January, 2008 All Blacks and siliconcaoch taking rugby to the world
Siliconcaoch and the NZRU have recently completed the building of a new video analysis product that adds real value to the way skills are taught and practiced on the rugby field. Called sportswizards each skill within rugby has been discretely broken down using the All Blacks as the exemplars, when aided by siliconcoach's unique video analysis IP the user has the ability to view each skill in super slow motion, just like on TV, additionally there is the ability to record yourself or players and compare them side by side within the sportswizards media player at the conclusion of ...
25th January, 2008 Siliconcoach helping powering a world golfing first
The golfing world is changing fast, no more are the days of men dominating the fairways and the establishment taking rule, we are now in the age of Tiger Woods long distance driving, video games that simulate real life golf courses and spectators sitting in stadium like facilities roaring for "their man". We at siliconcoach are playing our part to, by assisting in the development of a new three camera module with LCD screen, speakers, microphone and navigational buttons that will be installed into driving ranges. Using many unique components ,Cymicon, the brain child of and company run by the ...
25th January, 2008 We want distribution partners
Siliconcoach is currently looking for new distribution partners to assist with our continued growth around the world. We are looking for partners who can assist in the development of sales within our four channels.
- Education - Secondary and Tertiary
- Sport - All sporting codes and levels
- Clinical - Podiatry and Physiotherapy
- Retail - running Gait analysis and bike fitting
Please enquire firstly in writing to Brandon Evans GM, Global Sales and Marketing at brandon@siliconcoach.com
25th January, 2008 ECB further supports siliconcoach products
The ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), has confirmed it's support for siliconcoach products by supporting a program to offer siliconcoach products into the ECB coaches association, with a membership of over 11,000 members and growing the further acceptance and exposure of siliconcoach products into cricket within the ECB region will be greatly enhanced. This announcement follows the past two years implementation and training to all 18 first class counties and national teams including the ECB's renowned high performance training facility Loughbrough University.
Further information about siliconcoach products for cricket can be found in the sports channel ...