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9th May, 2008 Official Supplier of the 2008 UEG European Trampolining Championships
siliconcoach will be the official video analysis supplier at the UEG European Trampolining,Tumbling and DMT Championships in Denmark commencing 28th April.
For further information on the use of siliconcoach at this event please contact Andrew Delafield at andrew@siliconcoach.com
9th May, 2008 TEST skipper Ricky Ponting has turned to hi-tech
Ricky Pointing has been sharpening his batting skills with siliconcoach TimeWARP, before departing for the West Indies.The video footage was fed through the plasma screen, on a five-second delay, enabling Ponting to play a stroke and then watch it replayed immediately on TV.
Ponting, who endured a run of low scores in the summer's one-day series and failed to fire for Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, emerged from the net session delighted.
"It's the first time I've used that. It is the best little coaching session you can have," said Ponting.
"It's good to ...
18th March, 2008 Siliconcoach centre stage at ECB Coaches conference
The siliconcoach UK team have taken centre stage in a large scale demonstration of video analysis at the recent ECB Coaches Association conference held at Warwick University. During three presentations led by Kevin Shine, Head of the ECB Fast Bowling Programme, over 300 delegates were shown how the Pro and TimeWARP systems can be used to give valuable feedback to players within the training environment. During each session, former Somerset Head Coach Shine worked on a one-to-one basis with an up-and-coming local talent and demonstrated how the bowling action could be enhanced using technique drills, strength and conditioning and, of ...
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 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 ...
25th January, 2008 Siliconcoach launches Gait analysis for retail users
Called Dialed in Motion (DiM), siliconcoach recently launched this new brand into the running retail marketplace. Having already been in the retail market with bike fitting software, Gait analysis was the next logical step for siliconcoach. Designed by siliconcoach with input from may of the worlds leading shoe manufacturers and retailers this is truly a Gait analysis system for retailers not sports coaches!! With the ability to not only run video analysis of a clients Gait but additionally save all data gathered about the client, DiM running truly is a retailers dream. With uptake already from retailers around Australia, UK ...