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25th January 2010
Umbro England away kit 2010 - interview with Aitor Thorpe
Tonight is the BCS National Championship game for College Football between the University of Texas and Alabama. Over the past week there has been a lot of commentators discussing the game and this clip from ESPN showcases the actions of one of the players from a scientific perspective..
This is an amazing opportunity and one that I certainly want to be a part of. Please go to their website it si a must see:
"The World Village of Women Sports will give sportswomen of the world the same opportunities to develop as their male counterparts. A total of €200 million is to be invested in this research development and training centre now taking shape in Malmö, Sweden, 20 minutes from Scandinavia’s largest airport.
The World Village of Women Sports is a private sector initiative comprising of a multifunctional complex of 100,000 square metres. The first stage is scheduled for completion in 2012.
The new centre will provide new opportunities for international sports organisations, clubs and companies with products and services in the pharmaceutical, nutrition and sports equipment fields."
Replicating a persons running movement/ gait using a robot
Here at Progressive Sports we have developed a gait profile that replicates a person's typical gait using a Fanuc irobot.
This was a six-month study conducted by Mark Roberts and Jouni Ronkainen, now with Progressive. They analysed, through biomechanical analysis, a series of runners foot movements during running and replicated it using the Fanuc irobot.