Win Olympic Gold with Video Analysis Software Only?
Posted by David Keefe on Tue, Mar 08, 2011 @ 08:46 AM
OK this is cool. Ian Thorpe is planning on winning gold medals in London 2012 taking on the likes of Olympic Champ Michael Phelps, Olympic champ Alain Bernard, world champion Cesar Cielo, Commonwealth gold medallist Brent Hayden, and Australia's Eamon Sullivan and how is he going to do it? He is planning on training in Abu Dhabi with little to no face time with Australian head coach Leigh Nugent. Nugent is going to rely upon video technology and the internet to monitor his progress. Granite Stoelwinder says Thorpe is going to require a sub 48.5 second 100M to make the Austrailian team. That is faster than he swam before he retired. It is pretty amazing that Thorpe is going to buck the trend of training groups (think Abu Dhabi) and rely on improving his technique and using video analysis and video analysis software alone to get him swimming faster than he has ever swum before after 4 years off! Thorpe has a lot of gold medals and had a few years to think about how to win some more so he is hard to second guess. I personally like his choice and I hope if he runs into any problems sending those files to his coach he drops us a line. We will hook him up with a very elegant solution that will allow him to archive his own footate and allow ANY of his coaches to annotate the video from anywhere in the world. London 2012 is going to be pretty exciting in the pool.