Sports Technologies Integrating Theory with Practice

Introduction Presenters – Diarmaid Marsden – Ulster GAA – Johnny Bradley – Sport NI / Elevate Sports – Danny Turley – Performance Analyst / Performa Sports

Performance Analysis To achieve repeated success coaches and players must know and understand what they have done to make them successful/unsuccessful

REVIEW AMENDACTION What was the plan? What actually Happened? What caused this? What am I going to do now? What was the plan? What actually Happened? What caused this? What am I going to do now? (Matches) (Training) (Team Meetings, Management Meetings)

Good coaches are likely to be experts in observation and Analysis….. Are they? Observations by the Coach

Coaches could only recollect 30% of key performance factors that they actually seen.* * Franks and Millar 1991 Studies have shown that:

WHAT? What events can we analyse in a match?

Performance Analysis Software

Putting practice into theory Introduction Pre Performa Sports The problem (the pain…) The solution… What is Performa Sports? Live Demo Feedback

Introduction Name is Danny Turley. Managing Director of Performa Sports Ltd. Over 7 years experience working as Performance Analyst for the Armagh GAA team.

Common methods and associated problems Notational Analysis through old age technique of pen and paper. Post game stats report. Post game video analysis. 2 – 3 player video compilations. Motivational videos.

The Problems (the pain…) Time – current process too slow and the analysis data was not being used effectively – key information should be available to help coaches plan their next training session. Pen and paper method was too vague, and hard to feedback down to the sideline where the information counts.

Live Demo

What to do with all this information? Role of Stat Person and Role of Coach

How we can utilise Stats!! Post Match Analysis (Task)

Anything else??? Making Changes During a Game Analysing technical proficiency Analysing Opposition Performance Analysis on Training Pitch What is realistic for your school/club??

Application of Drills Statistics Training Pitch

Summary Q & A