World Number one Squash player Amr Shabana ties up with Hi-Tec…

October 22nd, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Hi-Tec, Quintic Video Software

Egypt’s World Number one squash player Amr Shabana has signed a two-year worldwide agreement with HI-TEC Sports.

The 28 year old from Cairo, who this month celebrated one and half uninterrupted years at the top of the PSA World Rankings, first reached the number one spot in April 2006 and has since maintained his dominance by adding five PSA Super Series titles to the take his tally to 16.

The agreement will see the two times world champion sporting the new 4:SYS Squash World Squash Championship model, launched especially for next years HI-TEC World Squash Championships. He joins several top stars including current World Champion David Palmer, James Willstrop, Nick Matthew and Lee Beachill in wearing the brands revolutionary new 4:SYS Squash shoes.

HI-TEC’s Group Brand Communication Manager, Jason Larke said: “Amr has consistently demonstrated his credentials as one of the worlds top players and no-one can argue with his record. HI-TEC has a long long history of working with the worlds best players and I am immensely proud that we can welcome Amr and look forward to working with him in the future.”

Shabana, looking to add to his list of successes at the forthcoming British Open, said of his signing: “It is great to join such a famous Squash brand, I know of the work that has gone into their new shoes and it was great to finally get on court with them. The cushioning and grip is fantastic, they are so comfortable, light and they really help my game and protect my body. I am looking forward to competing in them at the British.”

Over 2 years in development the revolutionary 4: SYS Squash shoes have been independently tested and designed by biomechanics experts Quintic Consultancy Ltd. Specifically designed to cater for dynamics of movement in Squash they boast up to 38% better impact absorption, up to 35% total reduction in force and up to 6 times better grip than any other brand tested.

For further details please visit http://www.changeyourshoes.co.uk/

Microsoft Vista & Quintic…

October 15th, 2007 | Quintic Video Software

Quintic is pleased to announce that all three levels of its video analysis software are fully supported by Microsoft Vista operating systems. Quintic V14 Sports / Coaching & Biomechanics are freely available for download via the Software Trial page of our website.

Quintic Software programs remains fully supported on Microsoft Windows XP and Quintic would still strongly recommend Microsoft XP as its preferred platform.

If you are an existing client wishing to switch from an XP PC to a Vista PC, you will need first to uninstall your current Quintic Licence via the Software Help Menu (see FAQ 36 for more on Licence Uninstallation). Download the new Quintic / Vista supported program go to www.quintic.com/software/trial/index.pl

Microsoft Vista uses a different video codec to that previously standard in Windows XP Operating Systems and Quintic Software – the default codec for Vista is XviD MPEG4 which is automatically incorporated in standard installation of the Quintic / Vista programs. Due to this different codec, your own existing Quintic videos, Quintic Sample Videos, and Quintic 4 Education videos will not open unless you first obtain backwards compatibility. To obtain this compatibility you must download the previous MPEG4 Codec to your Vista computer by selecting the following link and following the seven step-by-step instructions. www.quintic.com/downloads/system_tools.htm

Once you have downloaded the old MPEG4 and followed these steps, you will then be able to use previously saved Quintic video files in Quintic on your Vista computer. There is also the option to select the previous MPEG4 video Codec as the default codec when in the Quintic Editor stage of your Quintic Program. However, you may wish to choose the new XviD codec as your default video codec. The increased quality of the new XviD Codec outweighs the small increase in file size.

Please visit Product Table http://www.quintic.com/software/product_table.htm for Vista compatibility and functionality.

What we learned at school today!

October 1st, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Education, Quintic Video Software

Without doubt, one of the biggest themes to occupy the mind of anybody involved in childcare or education is fitness – most lately the subject of obesity among the very young is very high profile.

While it proves a great hobby-horse for government ministers and educational commentators, there seems precious little in the way of actual, workable solutions to accompany all the hand-wringing that goes on.

I’ve always been of the belief that sport is vital to a child’s development, and taught correctly at a young age generally makes for higher chances of athletic achievement – even brilliance – later in life. I have no truck with the lobby that says sport is under-funded in Britain. But while that may be true, it isn’t the sole source of our ills in competitive sport on the international stage. I think the way that children are introduced to sport and then coached and taught about it can let them down.

My specialism, Biomechanics, is an in-depth knowledge of the way the body works in an athletic context, and as such it can lead you into the minutest details of musculo-skeletal minutiae… the shorthand for this is, dull, dull, dull!

Sport shouldn’t ever be dull – to watch or to learn. Kids are famously and frequently described as sponges, able to absorb masses of information through natural mental agility and curiosity. Failure to engage these enquiring minds and develop physical proficiency in sports is more at fault, than so-called lack of investment in sport.

Consider this…

Children are great mimics. Their instinct is to copy. So instead of taking a class of unskilled and disengaged kids into a field, throwing them a ball and telling them to get on with it, why not show them how it’s done by showing them video of how Beckham bends it, or how Graeme Hick gets a cricket ball to travel off the bat at incredible speed, or how Jonny Wilkinson spiral kicks a rugby ball… and let them copy it?

The kind of video capture and analysis software techniques used for professional athletes offers young people one enduring advantage when learning to master a sport. By taking theory out of the abstract, showing how the sporting greats do it, encouraging them to emulate it, then marking their progress by comparing video of their own performance as it develops and improves, it actually brings sport to life in the classroom!

I don’t think there is a single better favour you can do for a child who wants to be good at a sport.

Video is a powerful and indispensable tool in showing developing athletes what they should be looking for and how to emulate it.

While this is more about technique, there is the additional benefit of injury prevention – in disciplines like gymnastics knowing the correct way to land, tumble and fall is crucial – in cricket a fast bowler who does not understand correct front foot placement in the delivery stride will develop ankle problems sooner or later.

Sports may be under-funded, but that’s not really the point at debate here. In truth, the UK offers a vast array of sports to the enthusiast willing to learn. And the best way to see as many children as possible realize their potential is by allowing them to look, absorb and copy.

A good technique is a safe technique as well as an efficient one. With skill comes achievement and further enjoyment…

Dr Paul Hurrion
Article in Independent Education Today Magazine (October 07)





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