US Olympic Volleyball
How we got the Silver Medal
Public Approved
Name | Value |
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Code | adi-vid-01128 |
Title | US Olympic Volleyball |
Subtitle | How we got the Silver Medal |
Description | frame-by-frame, body-segment-by-bodysegment analysis, allows Ariel to capture the stance and posture of Hyman's body to spring on an unsuspecting opponent at during the spiking motion. |
Subject (keywords) | Capture ; Volleyball ; |
Duration | 00:02:45 |
Created on | 7/13/2006 3:59:29 PM |
Label | Approved |
Privacy | Public |
Synopsis |
SynopsisIn 1976, the US women's volleyball team did not qualify for the Olympics. However, under the guidance of Dr. Harry Selinger, the team rose from 45th in the world to number one. Selinger believes that women can perform as well, if not better, than men in sports, not necessarily physically, but mentally. He highlights the exceptional athletic abilities of a veteran player, Read That Pocket, who could have potentially made the US Olympic team in two events. Selinger also discusses the importance of bio-mechanical analysis in improving players' performance, particularly in jumping. He mentions that new players who joined the team two months ago have already improved their jump by two to five inches. Selinger, who has a PhD in exercise physiology, believes that sophisticated data can be simplified and used to improve players' performance, but this requires a coach with basic education, a creative mind, and some basic scientific knowledge. He notes that this approach is not common in the United States, where coaches are not used to thinking in terms of science. Model Id: gpt-4-0613 |
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Time to become the Blue Wolf.
76, the US women's volleyball team
did not qualify for the Olympics.
That's in the sport, which originated in the United States.
But things changed for the better.
And the person most responsible for the success of the team,
which went from 45 in the world to number one,
was Dr. Harry Selinger.
Number one.
We sometimes wake up in the middle of the night,
they're waiting, and we just be check with Slovakia.
We just be rush, is it good or overwhelming sometimes?
Well, I'll tell you, the men that I coach
are whether or not it's big or big or something.
And physically, not as good as these kids are.
People think men can do much more than women.
My expense, I find out that women can do, maybe not physically,
but mentally, much more than men can do.
All right, wherever I go, I get a lot of questions
about one of your veteran players, read that pocket.
Well, read that pocket is exceptionally good athletes.
I mean, she could have made the US Olympic team
maybe in two events, maybe in 200 meters, or in a high jump.
Why do you say that?
Well, read that pocket that when we do mechanical bio-mechanical
analysis, and read that, we can find out
that the shoe elevates the center gravity higher
than the high jumpers in Olympic school.
But read that when she came to the program,
she didn't jump as well.
I mean, she will have the potential to jump.
That shoe is jumping at that time about seven inches
less than she jumps now.
By the same time, when read that came to the program,
we still work in the dinner world
and the bio-mechanical analysis.
And we develop some new concepts in jumping
to an invaluable jump, which can apply to basketball
or a tennis court.
It means most really rely upon the speed,
the horizontal velocity.
And being capable of converting the horizontal velocity
into vertical velocity, mainly utilizing the stopping power,
the backing power that you have in your muscles.
I have some new players that just joined with the team
about two months ago.
And they already jumped two to five inches better
than we jumped two months ago.
Can you have a PhD in exercise physiology?
But can the human, in your opinion,
take that sophisticated data and turn it into simple things
that they can get their own brain to program?
It's possible if the guy who works with you
and we are lucky with you,
he can bring it to simple parents.
And then the coach has basic education.
And some creative mind and some basic scientific knowledge
then it can even more simplify it
and get it down to the player.
But the process is possible.
The only thing is, there's nothing in the United States.
In the rest of the world, coaches are not used to
things in terms of science.
And spare those thoughts on science.
There's no passion.
It's a very sophisticated and complex activity.