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Welcome to the Coto Research Center a unique sports analysis facility

Where today's performance has changed

For the future

As a kid I was light and I was short and as you know when you're short and light you got to really fight your guts out in sports

And so I needed the very best information that I could get in order to make these teams

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Got very confused in the early days because coaches were telling me certain things and I really felt like a dummy because I'm saying

She's you're telling me all this stuff, but I don't see that. It's funny

You're telling me the guys breaking to the left and this knee is coming up

I find the knee is staying down. He's breaking to the right and so finally after about 20 30 years later

I got very interested in high-speed cinematography and that's the thing that really was beneficial to me because I could do high-speed filming

Which then brings everything back in very slow motion, but I could finally see know what really was happening and

Son of a gun guess what the coaches weren't always right

One day I had a story printed about me in a magazine

There's a sports illustrator story and dr. Gideon Ariel a computer bio-mechanist in

Massachusetts out on the east coast saw the story and we got together and he had developed a very sophisticated

system for quantifying human movement and

I was so intrigued I could hardly believe it. I was so excited. I could hardly talk

Exercise are very little with a lot of next right away

We were already talking about what's going to happen 25 years from now 30 years from now

Even five years from now the mind-blowing things that are going to take place and the good information

That's going to be available to coaches and the real truth

And that was the beginning of the Coto research center was dr. Gideon Ariel and I co-founded at Coto de Caza

You know as a sports psychologist

I need the physical factors of human movement and no one knows the subject better than the director of the Coto research center

Dr. Gideon Ariel and how fast is you hit at the same time?

You cannot look and say it's too complicated. So we have a machine that can do it for us

Bio-mechanics is the science that involved engineering mechanics the same way that engineers design a bridge or design a road or design a lever

To the human body or to biological systems

So we're taking the same laws of physics Newtonian physics

But instead of applying it to a machine we are applying it to the human body

What we try to do is to analyze any joint in the body how fast it will work is the central gravity of the body

What are the forces that are acting upon the body and are they operated in efficient metal?

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Dr. Ann Penny our exercise scientists then converts the film to computer language by tracing all the joints with a sunny pin

And the result is very interesting stick figures

Which then makes it possible to analyze all the physical forces which eventually tells us

Everything they're doing right or wrong

Gideon's work and to me, which is just a work of genius

The software he can put it into three-dimensional analysis only use two cameras turn the person upside down right side left look at him from any angle

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Was very interesting because David Hartman the host of Good Morning America show David was here not too long ago and he was working on his golf swing

We couldn't really tell whether the golf swing was on a perfect line

The computer could tell us that we want to do some things

Not Gideon just takes the software rotates it up at the angle we want we have David almost standing on his head

So that we can see how that would look on the swing and it was perfectly aligned

But why we were so interested is David hit the ball so far it's a very good golfer and he doesn't get a chance to play much

But his stroke was almost perfect

And so we got all these things happening around his baseball players coming here did a football kicker

Now to get this how do you like this from bobber chemical standpoint the football kickers here he came all away from harvard right

And Gideon says what foot do you kick with and he says the right foot?

I really work hard on that right foot. No making snap and trying to get the right muscle systems working for me

Gideon had that puzzle look and he looked at the kick and said it's how you land on the left leg that makes the right foot kick

Okay, go

Anyway, they go down the force plate and Gideon shows them how to land on the left to transmit that energy into the right leg

And the guy picks up about 30 percent in about 35 minutes in the way he landed

The different feeling I didn't know until he told me and he showed me the force on the plate

I would never imagine that that would be the way to do you always think I want to get this like as strong as I can

So I can really hit the ball hard and I can see no differences to this way was stronger and I can stop quicker

This leg would naturally go fast because the muscles doesn't make any difference how fast the dick is back for the same story

You cannot shoot the cannon out of a canoe another very fun area for me

Is I'm a lousy volleyball player, but I've always loved it and guess who we have here the United States Olympic women's volleyball team

Dr. Harry Salinger and his coaches

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Harry Salinger is now heavy into biomechanics and with his background in exercise physiology

And the women who are on the volleyball team are so super and they're very interested in scientific analysis

It's unbelievable what he's got these women doing they're jumping higher

They're learning how to spike and he also uses the computer and they bring the volleyball players up and they show how they could be more forceful

Got all the cards I offer since it has three facilities

And I'm like out of conscious think that we see and we know everything

But really we don't know everything we don't see even half of the same things that's happening

And color the causa allows me to really study peacefully in slow motion and see really what's going on

And then obviously to improve the technique and improve everything else

Our goals in the center is to make everybody a gold medalist in his own body

Obviously we're working with the whole spectrum of human body on one end. We have the olympic champions

We're working with them so they can perform better in golempic games

However, not everybody can perform in golempic games

That does mean that the person cannot perform in real life better be a gold medalist in his own structure again

We will help people to swing the golf club better to run with a better shoes to have a better skill

And at any sockets in their hands. We try to optimize every person to his maximum ability

Well, what we find is that the majority of people in our society

Are not working anywhere near maximum efficiency levels

And they have so much more ability than they thought

Which is so exciting to me because now we're funny now that why intermediates haven't had as much fun and haven't had

As many gains in their sports skills is that they've been utilizing a system that demands that they be 10 times more talented

Than the best player in the world

And when the intermediate suddenly finds out that they can improve in a very short period of time

I can't tell you what happens. They go crazy. They can hardly sweep from the excitement

And and I must say it's the same for me to to watch somebody improve like that and it changes their whole life

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