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Nelio Alfano Moura is one of the best jump coaches in the world, coaching athletes from all over the world. Moura has been part of the Olympics every time since Sydney 2000. Throughout his career, he has coached 3 Olympic medalists – 2 golds: Maureen Maggi and Irving Saladino at Beijing 2008, and 1 silver, Do you know the silver medalist’s name? a handful of finalists, and many other medalists and finalists competing at World Championships. Nelio discovered Dartfish for the first time, when invited to a conference at the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) in 2002. “Dartfish looked like magic to me! The conference participants were given a demo version of the software, and I began using it. Since then, I have never stopped using Dartfish.” In a recent interview, Nelio explained to us how he used Dartfish to enhance his athlete’s skills and prepare them for competition. We…

Oliver Logan worked for the English Institute of Sports, before joining British Swimming five years ago. As the Head of Biomechanics, Innovation, and Performance Analysis, Oliver helps Olympic swimmers, Paralympic swimmers, and Olympic divers develop their skills, thanks to data generated by Dartfish video analysis. The British Swimming Performance Team focuses on 3 key areas of swimmers’ and divers’ performance: Evaluating Performance Skills During swimming competitions, like the Olympics, Oliver and the coaches decide on the most relevant race events to track for each swimmer competing that day. It could be evaluating factual events: time of the race, splits, stroke rate, stroke count, time of breath. It could also be evaluating technical appreciations: what the start was like, the turn or the finish, sectional times level or race pacing. These metrics are used to compare each swimmer’s performance with their competitors, as well as the athlete’s progression race-by-race. Between or…

Clubs are now offering an even more immersive/attractive experience for their ice hockey fans in the arena. Just like on TV, your fans can discover, before and during the game, team composition, and review of significant action phases; they can also follow player interviews and “behind the scene” action on the big screen. The SC Rapperswil go even further during their game breaks by delivering detailed analytics, giving their fans a detailed understanding of the game. Janick Steinmann, Rapperswill’s Sports Director, analyzes specific game actions during breaks, using Dartfish videos and data, while broadcasting on the big screen, to illustrate his point. Only with a myDartfish Mobile subscription and a tablet, clubs are able to engage their fans with valuable data, detailed reporting, and analysis. Contact Dartfish to learn more about our solutions.

Sport Hackdays is an annual event organized by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in Switzerland. Applied Data Science students meet with tech companies, clubs, organizations, and athletes to create data-driven innovations and develop prototypes and business models for use in sports. As part of the NTN Innovation Booster process, Dartfish and Swiss unihockey challenged the students to figure out how the statistics delivered by Dartfish’s Computer Vision Solution could help fans better understand the game and increase their engagement. Dartfish Computer Vision Dartfish has developed a video-based system to track athletes and players shifts, as well as balls and pucks trajectories in real-time. The system automatically tags a game or a competition with specific events (passes, penalties, drops, touches, shots on goal and more) generating live statistics. Dartfish has installed the Computer Vision System in the AXA Arena in Winterthur. The multiple cameras can record the…

Arnaud Muccini is a figure skating performance analyst and coach. He created Perform’Live in 2009 to help skaters to perform through video analysis and sports technologies. Known for being one of the foremost Dartfish video analysts in the world, he has collaborated in the past with numerous Olympic coaches, including Véronique Guyon, former coach of World Champion: Brian Joubert, Denise Meyer, former coach of Bradie Tennel, American champion, and Alexei Mishin to name a few.Under the supervision of Zhao Hongbo, Olympic Champion and Head coach of the National Chinese team, Arnaud helped for 3+ years the skater’s preparation for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. SUI-HAN won the Gold medal in the pairs event at Beijing 2022. In this interview, Arnaud tells us how he analyzes technical elements to help optimize both the skaters’ skills and refine the program strategy. “With Dartfish, we can get a clear idea of the possible…

Video analysis is more and more often used in mountain bike, to compare riders’ tracks, to entertain fans, or to teach or sharpen up Mtb riders’ techniques. Ben Cathro is a great downhill mountain bike racer. He has 2 passions: riding his bike as fast as physically possible and helping other riders to develop their competencies by coaching them. He uses Dartfish analysis software in his videos either to analyze tracks from World Cup or other downhill competitions or to illustrate some specific aspects of techniques he teaches. By breaking down in stromotion or simulcam, a track or technical movement, you can easily identify the dos and don’ts. This is the best and fast way to understand and improve a technique. In downhill, for example, body position, line choices, and trajectories are the core skills, difficult to acquire. In the Pinkbike video series “How to bike”, Ben breaks down fundamental…

Dartfish solutions are used by physiotherapy and podiatry professionals to improve athletes’ performance or diagnose and rehabilitate patients’ pathologies. Dartfish solutions allow you to: Review a sequence in detail, frame-by-frame in high definition and from different angles simultaneouslyCompare techniques by onscreen comparison and overlayTrack movement and trajectory to highlight technique deficienciesGive Instant visual feedback in treatment sessions or in remote sessions, allowing patients to see immediately and exactly what their bodies are doing.Track treatment progress over time, to increase the effectiveness of the rehab/healing process for each of your patientsShare the analysis with patients, doctors, or other staff. Dartfish video analysis solutions deliver healthcare practitioners with powerful visual assistance to make accurate clinical assessments and improve patients’ techniques and moves. Using Dartfish video analysis will help healthcare professionals overcome the common challenges of diagnosing: Gait cycleStance phase of the gaitHead alignmentShoulder height symmetrySymmetry of an arm swingAsymmetry of internal/external rotation…