It's a welcome to the 1980s is all I can say it is time now for sports extra

It's the time in our sports cast where we go beyond the highlights and the scores

And you know I used to believe that the perfect athlete was carved out of hard work and training

But this week I found out it's actually made out of computer chips and micro data

Tucked away deep in Orange County since the Koto Research Center

Inside these walls they are building the perfect athlete using state-of-the-art computers

Vic Braden long associated with tennis and the teacher of many a pro decided seven years ago

That with the aid of a computer you could decipher why a person hits a tennis ball right or wrong

And he thought if it applies to tennis it could apply to any sport

We can put a guy go out and film him and know exactly where he or she gets the power

We can tell what the secrets are now we don't know all the things that are inside the brain

The adrenaline the motivation but from a biomechanical physical side of the thing

We can now really take a look at who the six million dollar man or woman really is

And if they're not how can we make them a twenty million dollar man?

So Vic Braden joined forces with former Olympian and current computer whiz Dr. Gideon Ariel

Now athletes both pro and amateur come to the research center to sharpen or improve their skills

Take Jimmy Connors. Well sure a while ago he was having trouble with his game

They transferred film of Jimmy Connors to computer and guess what?

They found the problem

We found out that he had a very deficient method of serving

For example he used to jump in there too soon and by doing it you lose a lot of strength

Like you cannot as you know you cannot shoot the cannon out of a canoe

So we changed his technique he walked on it and according to our calculation he increased his serve

By about 15 to 20 miles now which giving him a 90 miles now so his good serve

Which is a tremendous advantage for him

Edwin Moses the best hurdler in the world wanted to be better

He came to the Cody Kaza research center and computer research showed an amazing similarity

Between him and a great thoroughbred spectacular bid

When both raced there was body motion of course up and down

But the head remained constant on a straight line

This is information that a human eye could not see but a computer could

And now it's being taught to future hoodlers

So after 10,000 hours and seven years of research Dr. Ariel can create the perfect athlete

Using a high technology high speed film and computers to maximize the human body

Let's save a lot of time for the coach because we might find that an athlete doesn't have the derivatives of making me great athletes

The day is going to come in one of the Olympics where we have to be very careful

Maybe somebody is sitting in the stands with the computer

And the guy is running to do the high jump he hits the right buttons

It contracts the right muscles the guy jumps all the way over the building

Not just over the bar

Well that's not that far out and then it may happen one day

We have to guard against that what we really want to do is use science to maximize human performance

I said to Dr. Ariel I could foresee the day when competition would place your computer against my computer

But the good doctor even had an answer for that one

And even if we have the greatest coaches in the world and the greatest computers in the world

The human body always have a tremendous tendency to screw up a good data

Yeah, could you understand the good doctor?

The humans will screw up good data

And I think you were right, there still is a measure of hard work in there

Even when the computer figures it out