Performance Analysis in Sport is certainly a growing area. Although we are not seeing the end of the days where the role of the performance analyst is attached to that of many other jobs in the backroom staff, it is changing.

A big reason, I think, Performance Analysis is behind other areas like Physio Therapy is because of the lack of formal education in the area. It is only in the last couple of years that colleges here in Ireland like CIT, Tralee IT and UCC have dedicated modules to the area of Performance Analysis in Sport. I think the more of these colleges that embrace performance analysis as a genuine elemnet of coahing and sports science the higher the standards we can expect in the field.

At present there is only one University in the world offering Performance Analysis at Masters Level. While it is certainly not a prerequisite that you must become qualified at masters level to be a performance analyst it would be great to see more college offering this level of qualification, as it can only improve the standards.

There are a couple of organisations looking to achieve some form of accreditation and training in the area but nothing concrete yet. The only two I know of are ISPAS (International Society of Performance Analysis in Sport) and thevideoanalyst.com

I think it’s important that more people join the debate and raise the standard of Performance Analysis in Sport.

Any thoughts?

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I know most of you will have seen our new video on the home page but just wated to include it in here as well. Would love your feedback. [On anything except my baldness!!!]

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There were some great performances by the Dartfish family at the weekend. Especially of note was Cork’s win against Kerry in the Munster Semi-Final Replay. I know Conor Counihan and Performance Analyst John Murphy will have been hard at work over the last few months preparing for the game. And with such a comprehensive win it looks like it has paid off. Still along way to go to All-Ireland success but congrats to Performance Analyst John Murphy.

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IMG Academies have just decided on Dartfish as their tool of choice in their various academies. Dartfish Video Analysis is being implemented into The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, the IMG Soccer Academy, the IMG Baseball Academy, the IMG Basketball Academy, the IMG Swimming Academy and the IMG Performance Institute.

These academies are some of the highest profile academies in world sport and it is great to see they have chosen Dartfish.

The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy “War Room”

Thirty-one of our courts are equipped with state-of-the-art video cameras to capture match play. All content from the cameras are fed into the “War Room” where our coaches can analyze our student’s on-court performance. Coaches then work one-on-one with students to help them reach the apex of their game, with video assisting in the communication process.

Match Analysis

In addition to Dartfish, the IMG Soccer Academy will also use Match Analysis to dig deeper into the strategy of the game. Match Analysis indexes and categorizes every touch by every player during a match and provides coaches with cutting-edge tools for analysis, player development, scouting and video archiving.

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A lot of people think Video analysis is just for Senior inter-county teams but that’s not true at all. I have been involved in video analysis since 2003 and have carried out a lot of analysis and presented back to teams of all levels and age groups. I think video analysis, if used correctly, can have the biggest impact on juvenile players. They are much more receptive to new things and they love being able to see themselves on TV - it adds a great level of motivation for the players. 

Cost will always be an issue for any club. I have recently installed Dartfish into a club side in Meath. They very early understood that the software could be used by much more than just the senior team. They only have Dartfish 3 months but have already had 5 people trained up on the system and are using with football, hurling and juvenile teams. When you spread the investment in video analysis throughout a club like Donaghmore Asbourne have you are not long in getting your money back in spades (or trophy’s).

The other thing is that if you don’t want to take the plunge and invest in performance analysis software at this stage you can always get a game analysed. Simply send us a DVD of your last mach or maybe an upcoming opponent and we can analyse the match for you. A cheap and effective way to get involved in video analysis.

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