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Sam Gleadhill’s PhD Confirmation of Candidature

Physiolytics and Jim’s Sports Lab team member, Sam Gleadhill is presenting his PhD confirmation of candidature this Friday (24 June). For anyone interested at CDU, please come to Red6 Room 1.01 for a 9.30 start. Griffith attendees, please go to … Continue reading

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Has a new salute been evolving?

I was looking at this shot of Ali’s funeral procession and occurred to me that what I thought were hands raised in acknowledgement were actually people taking pictures – another disruption from technology….. This picture is a screen shot from … Continue reading

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ASTN-Q: Research & Innovation in Sports Technology

The Queensland node of the Australian Sports Technologies Network is holding a research presentation day at the Queensland Sports Athletics Centre (formally known as QE2 Stadium). Here is a link to the Queensland Sports Technology blog about the event. Any SE … Continue reading

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Apps and how to pick appropriately

This is an article from today’s “The Conversation” media site. It backs up the basis of the technology review assignment in SPE205 about the need to be able to critically review technologies. I was a little surprised at the level … Continue reading

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Week5 Workshop for SPE205

The tech week. This week Jim has a conversation with his colleague Associate Professor Daniel James from the SABEL Labs at Griffith Uni. Danny is a world leader in the Sports Engineering world in general and with a particular interest … Continue reading

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journal of Biomechanics publication

A new publication titled: “The development and validation of using inertial sensors to monitor postural change in resistance exercise” By Sam Gleadhill, Jim Lee, and Daniel James is now in press. Sam is a new PhD student and this work … Continue reading

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Veritasium talking about education

This is an interesting story about technology revolutionising education – a lot to ponder – especially the concept of learning. It comes back to the individual. Something I will aim to do. At least I have got the Youtube bit … Continue reading

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SPE205 Week3 introduction

For SPE205 students, here are two clips that are introductions and a bit of housekeeping info for assessments etc

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Batak attack – Yet another update….

A Batak is a Sports Science tool that we can use to measure reaction, coordination, and agility of a person. Typically, when people first have a go, they score somewhere in the 20 hits in 30 secs. Here is Jim … Continue reading

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SPE205 Week 1 lecture and workshop

This week’s lecture and workshop videos are now posted in the Week1 folder in the learning materials tab in Learnline. They explain a lot about what to expect in Biomech1 this semester, including some info on the assessment items. Thanks to … Continue reading

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