tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61092842024-03-05T18:43:16.107+08:00sportsci.blogfor sports scientists, coaches, and athletes to enhance performance and to develop a sports system (high performance coaching, integrated sports science, information management, performance analysis, talent ID, youth development, coach education, and athlete career support)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.comBlogger564125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-23202458203001092432012-12-31T08:54:00.000+08:002012-12-31T08:54:41.596+08:00Thank you...I started this blog sportsci.blog in Nov 2003 as a tool to share latest news and updates in sports science around the world. I will continue to do so in other platforms like facebook and twitter.
Although today will be the last post, please keep supporting sports science in 2013 and beyond. We need to keep learning, keep criticizing, and keep taking actions.
Taisuke Kinugasa
Think Globally, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-89650870796298030852012-05-23T15:11:00.000+08:002012-05-23T15:11:18.435+08:00SSI FORMS PARTNERSHIPS WITH REGIONAL INSTITUTES IN PREPARATION FOR RIO 2016 AND BEYOND@SSC
SSI Signs MOUs with China, Hong Kong and Korean Sports Institutes to Boost Sports Science and Medicine Support for Team Singapore
Singapore, 17 May 2012 - To help Team Singapore athletes prepare better for the 2016 Olympics in Rio and beyond, the Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) is tapping on its wider Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-24189249797217158192012-05-15T12:23:00.001+08:002012-05-15T12:25:06.437+08:00SSI Sports Science & Medicine Symposium 2012Sports Corporate - SSI Sports Science & Medicine Symposium 2012
The Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) will be hosting its inaugural Sports Science & Medicine Symposium from 17 to 18 May 2012 at Concorde Hotel. The theme of the symposium is "A Holistic Support System for Elite Athletes". This 2-day event will bring together leading practitioners to share and discuss best practices in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-15223774864086310042012-05-15T12:05:00.002+08:002012-05-15T12:05:39.310+08:00UK Sport and P2i team up to create winning formula@UK Sport
UK Sport, the nation’s high performance sports agency, has announced a unique innovation partnership with P2i, the world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, to help protect equipment and accessories developed through UK Sport’s Research and Innovation programme in cycling and sailing, two of Britain’s leading sports.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-5498526897397737402012-05-01T08:21:00.005+08:002012-05-01T08:21:57.308+08:00Australia to lead the world in sports technology@Kate Lundy
Minister for Sport and Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation, Kate Lundy, today launched a new collaborative initiative which brings together universities, sports technology enterprises and other industry players to help the development of new sporting technologies in Australia.
The Gillard Government has provided $225,000 in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-75436467527566312932012-04-26T11:15:00.003+08:002012-04-26T11:15:58.906+08:00Racing against time@Straits Times
THE swimmer in Florida has given up fast food and late nights. The shooter is in London, training and praying. The paddler is in Spain, making up for lost ground. And the gymnast is in Singapore, searching for courage.
With exactly 100 days to go before the Olympic Games, time is running out for the Republic's top athletes, who are scattered across the planet Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-12472029425121056442012-04-26T11:14:00.004+08:002012-04-26T11:14:46.339+08:00Predicted Medal Tables@Top End Sports
There are numerous systems for ranking the success of countries at the Olympics, usually based on actual results at the Olympic Games. Described below is the method of prediction modelling of expected results to rank countries, and leads to another method that ranks countries based on actual results compared to that predicted. These would not necessarily be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-45312428441531584802012-04-26T11:13:00.000+08:002012-04-26T11:13:10.387+08:00The Australian Insititute of Sport hi-tech pool wins by a split second@Daily Telegraph
THE main pool at the Australian Institute of Sport is unlike any other in Australia, and possibly everywhere else.
It comes with a golf cart, for one. An underwater camera is attached to the golf cart, not to search for stray Titleists but to videotape strokes, as in the swimming kind, as it goes up and down Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-88984054192969205422012-04-23T11:35:00.002+08:002012-04-23T11:35:20.647+08:00Team GB will win 27 gold medals at London 2012, research predicts@Guardian
Hang out the bunting and strike up the national anthem. British athletes will enjoy their best Olympics for more than a century and challenge for third in the medal table in London, according to academics who successfully predicted China's record medal haul in Beijing. The Sport Industry Research Centre at Sheffield Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-74966281728834756202012-04-20T13:46:00.001+08:002012-04-20T13:46:13.200+08:00BMW Developing New Motion Tracking Technology for Swimmers, Latest Effort in Partnership with Team USA@around the rings
After successfully deploying cutting-edge technology to help America’s long jumpers go farther, faster, BMW is now turning its attention to USA Swimming. This latest effort will provide quantitative analysis of swimmers’ starts and turns – critical to success in the sport – viaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-83090162920745437412012-04-13T11:17:00.001+08:002012-04-13T11:17:32.494+08:00NEW ZEALAND'S 'WHOLE OF FOOTBALL' PLAN CELEBRATES FIRST YEAR WINS@Australasian Leisure Management
ew Zealand Football's award-winning development blueprint, the 'Whole of Football' plan, is poised to expand after a successful pilot year.
Launched last year among 95 pilot clubs from around New Zealand after extensive research in leading football nations, the Whole of Football plan aligns Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-35464911067422111582012-04-13T11:15:00.001+08:002012-04-13T11:15:11.067+08:00Skaters' Brains: Specialized Training of Complex Motor Skills May Induce Sports-Specific Structural Changes in Cerebellum@Science Daily
A new study, using brain imaging technology, reveals structural adaptations in short-track speed skaters' brains which are likely to explain their extraordinary balance and co-ordination skills.
The work by Im Joo Rhyu from the Korea University College of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-53474217385838965852012-04-13T09:12:00.002+08:002012-04-13T09:12:34.350+08:00BMW gives U.S. athletes new tool for Olympic training@marketwatch
Luxury automaker BMW is launching a groundbreaking system aimed at helping American athletes perfect their technique.
The BMW Velocity Measurement System, developed exclusively for USA Track and Field, will give real-time feedback to athletes. At first, it will provided only to long jumpers, though its developers say it can be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-22537493026868839992012-04-11T11:42:00.000+08:002012-04-11T11:42:31.107+08:00Mission Gives Green Light For Home Games Success@EIS
UK Sport, the nation’s high performance sports agency, responsible for investing over £300 million of National Lottery, Exchequer and Team 2012 presented by Visa funds into Britain’s best Olympic and Paralympic sports and athletes for London 2012, have today revealed that, collectively, sports remain on track and are in a better position to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-7095225001454147882012-04-11T09:04:00.002+08:002012-04-11T09:04:55.551+08:00Support for high performance sport research@ASC
Minister for Sport Kate Lundy today welcomed the new Director of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Matt Favier, by announcing $1 million in funding for research into high performance sport.
'It is a great pleasure to welcome Matt to the AIS and also announce this important high performance funding research,' Senator Lundy said.
'The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-60973458868527808192012-03-20T09:36:00.000+08:002012-03-20T09:36:12.963+08:00Olympic medals expert makes his 2012 London Games predictions@Universal Sports
A Colorado College economist who has predicted Olympic medals with a 93 percent accuracy rate over six consecutive Olympic Games has made his predictions for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. He uses a model that, surprisingly, does not include athletic ability as one of its factors.
Daniel K.N. Johnson, a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-4735124232730097522012-03-15T06:58:00.003+08:002012-03-15T06:58:53.517+08:00British Athletes Use Video to Run Faster, Jump Higher at Games@bloomberg
British athletes are turning to the biggest-ever Olympic video analysis project to improve their performance in between heats at this year’s Games in London.
The British Olympic Association will use live video footage from the venues to analyze athletes’ performances and movement in competition during the Games, which Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-89774767463319730442012-03-13T09:39:00.001+08:002012-03-13T09:39:11.622+08:00One Year after, Japan Unites via Power of Sports@around the rings
Hundreds of representatives from Japan’s sports community and thousands of well-wishers joined some 200 young children from the northern part of Japan for a sports festival in Tokyo to mark the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This demonstration of the power of sports to unite and energeise a nation is one of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-28857704431081395842012-03-12T10:01:00.002+08:002012-03-12T10:01:33.266+08:00UK TID programme outcomesOlympic 'best is yet to come' from Team GB, says talent head Warr@BBC
The head of Great Britain's Olympic talent factory believes the team could win more medals at the Rio Olympics in 2016 than at this summer's Games in London.
Team GB won 47 medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing, the best return for a century, and that was good enough for fourth in the medal table.
That is also the target for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-50706897786274540482012-03-07T12:28:00.000+08:002012-03-07T12:28:57.040+08:00ASC Strategic Plan: Working Together for Australian Sport is now available online@ASC
The ASC Strategic Plan covering the period from 2011-12 to 2014-15 was tabled in Parliament on 8 February and is now available online through the ASC website. The tabling of the plan, which has been approved by the Minister for Sport, represents an important milestone for the ASC in providing strong leadership Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-53506941680377544702012-03-07T12:22:00.000+08:002012-03-07T12:22:01.808+08:00WORLD CHAMPION ALL BLACKS COACH LENDS HAND IN LEAD UP TO LONDON@HPSNZ
Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Graham Henry will work with some of the country’s leading high performance coaches ahead of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond, High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) Chief Executive Alex Baumann has announced today.
Baumann says Sir Graham will help coaches fine-tune Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-50846272443299750842012-03-01T14:05:00.001+08:002012-03-01T14:05:50.563+08:00extra funding for Australian Olympic athletesMinister announces extra Green and Gold funding injection@ASC
Minister for Sport Mark Arbib today announced a further $640,000 to targeted Olympic and Paralympic sports in the lead up to the London Games.
Senator Arbib said the injection was part of the Green and Gold Project which has now allocated almost $4.5 million in additional funding to assist Olympic and Paralympic athletes to succeed Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-80677835703042933372012-02-24T13:47:00.000+08:002012-02-24T13:47:12.522+08:00launch of Singapore Sports Medicine NetworkLONG TERM ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT PLANS SET TO PRODUCE MORE SPORTING HEROES@SSC
Singapore, 23 February 2012 - As part of the 19 recommendations spelt out under Vision 2030 last week, the Singapore Sports Institute (SSI), under the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), has mapped out its first five-year plan that will provide seamless and holistic support for national athletes.
2 The SSI has identified Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-3107054797401501052012-02-13T19:11:00.002+08:002012-02-13T19:11:30.953+08:00new sports policy in SingaporeSPORT AS STRATEGY, OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL@SSC
Singapore, 13 February 2012 - After seven months of consultation with some 2500 people from the public, private and people sectors, the Vision 2030 Committee released its preliminary recommendations on how sport can be a key strategy to serve Singapore. The recommendations call for more opportunities and access for Singaporeans to play more sports in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109284.post-12356320032885273512012-02-06T13:26:00.001+08:002012-02-06T13:26:15.845+08:00new studies on physiological effects of massageIn recent years, massage has been considered to have very limited physiological effects (more psychological).
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However, there are new studies indicating enhanced recovery of muscle function and attenuation of the damaging effects of inflammation in a animal study (Butterfield et al, 2008) and clinically beneficial by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377253985715363879noreply@blogger.com0