It is too rare that I get to see a Performance Analyst using Dartfish in a real world environment. So I was delighted to get the opportunity to go out to the National Aquatic Centre last Wednesday and spend some time with the high performance team and see Matt McCusker (Analyst) in action. What was most pleasing was to see the look on the athletes faces as they saw exactly what the coaches see each week. They couldn’t believe they were swimming like that until they saw themselves on video.

There was no great science behind it all. Matt was simply able to record an action, the swimmers hopped out of the pool they slowed the footage down and paused at key moments before getting back in the pool and trying again. Very simple but very very effective.

It was also a great opportunity to try out the Hosand Aqua system for the first time. The information from this is staggering. We only tried the belts with 3 athletes and I hope to be back out over the next couple of weeks to test it further but so far so good.

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