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We often forget that technology isn’t limited to the internet, a smart board, cell phones or tablets. There are a lot of teachers in this class but we also have quite a few coaches. For this blog post share what you think technology has done to the world of sports. Take a look at the article below that gives 10 new technological advances that may play an impact in their sport and at the Olympic Games. In volleyball, technology is developing in the types of uniforms, shoes, knee pads, ball production, and training tools all the time. They have even started talks of a challenge system, much like the system used in tennis, in volleyball. Share what technology you have observed and used as coach. If you do not coach then share what you think technology has done for sports over the years and what kind of impact it may have in the future.
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2008/08/10_new_technolo.php
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Travis Dalton
11/17/2013 05:47:30 am
The above link in the post directs you to email for some reason. I am attaching the link to the site. Sorry for the confusion!
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Trisha Shannon
11/17/2013 06:15:20 am
Being an athletic trainer I am around sports all the time and some of the new technology out their in the athletic training and medical profession will make a great impact on sports. One of the biggest changes for sports is concussion technology. Companies can place sensory in football helmets to detect if a hit was to hard and if a player needs to be evaluated. Other new advances include the ability to use IPads on the sideline to do balance and vision testing without ever having to leave the game. Impact and SCAT2 testing are also helpful in determining what imbalances are going on in the brain.
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Derek Lannigan
11/17/2013 11:04:54 pm
As technology becomes more prominent in sports it will begin to do away with human error. Things will start becoming more robotic and calls will be more accurate on obvious fouls, but they will become a hassle on more tedious ones. Technology gives the coaches and players more power than the officials because call can be challenged numerous times throughout the game. Even though the number of challenges can be limited it still causes the momentum of the game to swing and game play time to become longer. When you look at Division I and NFL every scoring play is automatically reviewed in order to see if there was a call that was missed. I believe that if a call was missed during the duration of a play, then it should be void after the play is over if the official did not call it.
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Morgan Goetschel
11/18/2013 12:07:08 am
As a Cross Country/Track and Field coach the new technology that they are coming out with is making people start to preform so much better. One type of software that I like is the a Video software called Coach's Eye. You can use it in almost any sport to help any athlete with a technical aspect of their sport. All you have to do is record a video of your athlete doing their sport. as soon as you are done you can view the video, and the helpful things that you can do to work with your athlete is slow the video down so they can see exactly what they are doing wrong, you can draw on it to show them where they need to be, and create an all around analysis that you can send to them to see or keep it right on your phone or other device.
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Joshua Hancock
11/18/2013 09:14:06 am
When I was in high school I was the manager for the volleyball team. My main job was to keep the stats for the team. I kept these stats by making tally marks on a piece of paper on a clipboard. Today I teach at the school I went to high school. At one of the games I was attending they asked me to keep up with the stats because the manager was sick. I was very willing to help until I realized they kept the stats on a iPad. They used a program I had never heard of, but it was easy to learn. I only graduated high school five years ago, but the way stats are kept has completely changed. This change is good though because they are a lot easier to keep up with and there is no pesky paper to keep up with.
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Ruth Ann Pfremmer
11/18/2013 10:31:51 am
One area that is extremely important is to all athletes is technology to aid in the medical diagnosis and care of the athletes. Radiology equipment comes in all shapes and sizes. Ultrasound units are now produced as handheld devices. Whether handheld, stationary, or mobile equipment is used to image parts of the body, the images can be sent (telerad) to a radiologist. Immediate readings can be provided to enhance the care of the athletes, this in turn enhances the performance of the athletes.
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Thyago
11/19/2013 03:26:58 am
Tech and soccer. For right now they are using a microship on the balls and on the post of a few scrimmage, why? In soccer you can not use the replay or challenge some play. The ref have to decide whatever the ball cross the goal line or not in a fraction of second. So they are using microship inside the ball and around the post so as soon as the ball cross the line will bip and vibrate a remote control that the ref will be using.
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Ethan Mignard
11/20/2013 12:46:49 am
Some of my favorite technological innovations in sports are the ones that help improve the officiating. It's impossible for the referees or umpires to see everything, so some extra help is almost always useful. That being said, the technology I use most is the app Coaches Eye. It allows me to record or import video and then replay it frame by frame using a virtual wheel at the bottom of the screen. The app also allows me to draw lines on the picture. It comes in quite handy when analyzing running and hurdling form.
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Jodi McSwain
11/20/2013 10:58:22 am
I'm not up-to-date when it comes to technology in sports! However, through reading a few articles, you can see how technology has come a long way over the years. Technology has provided athletes the opportunity to do things better, faster, and to be more competitive. Everything from foot wear and clothing to equipment have improved through the use of technology. Athletes can use technology to help them with training and show how they can make improvements in their performance. Technology can also be used to assist in games - replays, etc. I read about suits that swimmers had used during past competitions that allowed a large number of records to be broken. They were actually banned from the Olympics because not all swimmers had access to the suits and it gave others too much advantage.
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Alanna Dennison
11/20/2013 11:14:40 pm
Being an athletic trainer, injury and rehabilitation documentation takes up a huge chunk of my time. Technology has given us many different systems of injury documentation that saves us tons of time in pulling files, reading through old information and hand writing out every last thing we do. Documentation systems can now be pulled up on Smart phones, tablets, computers etc and allows us to document whenever we need and wherever we need, in addition to being quicker and more organized. We can also use these systems to run checks on the number and types of injuries occuring and other statistics, which can be used in research and studies. These systems include the SportsWare system we use at CMU, as well as systems such as Injury Tracker, Athletic Trainer System, Echo, etc.
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Travis Dalton
11/23/2013 06:00:18 am
I like reading about all the different technologies that you all are experiencing. I feel like this is an exciting time in sports and the technology will hopefully further the games.
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Dustyn Yung
11/24/2013 01:07:33 pm
For basketball we are always of hearing of new things to use. Nike came out with a new basketball shoe that recorded how much pressure and speed you are using when you cut and move on the floor. Film wise we use hudl for all of our film, but we are in the process of possibly buying a thing called krossover that breaks down the film for us and also has vision sight on it that shows the the pass or shot one should have taken. Technology is growing rapidly.
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