Technology in sport is having a major impact on measuring and improving a player’s performance. Player tracking systems are one such area, as coaches working with elite teams are now insisting on analysing a wide range of statistics on each player. A number of major sports have already endorsed the introduction of player tracking systems […]
According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 83 percent of Americans that partook in a full, 18-round of golf were over 40-years-old last year. The Professional Golfers Association has the highest share of those over 55, with the smallest share of teenagers and pre-30-year-olds than its sports leagues counterparts, per The Atlantic. Participation and […]
Commonly referred to as the worst movie of the Star Wars saga, “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” does have one redeeming feature—pod racing. Ask anybody of a certain age, including this writer, and they will tell you of their numerous vivid dreams of being inside one of those machines, and racing it across […]
Analytics are used by people in sports who understand that the human mind is not able to properly evaluate all aspects of a particular decision on its own, especially not without some sort of natural human bias somehow affecting the decision making process. Players, coaches, general managers, and even owners are of course interested in […]
On July 9th, the Sydney based company Disrupt announced that they expanded their 3D customizable printing of surfboards across Europe. They will now distribute sets of customized bespoke surfboards by using 3D printing technology which will allow for specifically created boards and artwork to be tailored for consumers. To this point, Disrupt has produced 1,500 surfboards across Australia and Asia […]
