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The Ultimate Guide to Video Analysis Gear and Software

February 1st, 2012 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

I wrote a previous article about using the equipment that we all have around us and the cameras on our mobile phones are more than adequate for most of our coaching needs. So if you want to boost your feedback to your players and add a coaching application to your phone or iPad then take a look at these options that i have tried out recently.

iPhone: Cricket Coach Plus and Cricket Coach Free

Both are excellent packages that enable the user to film a player from different angles, synchronise the footage together (particularly good for bowlers) and insert angles, lines and shapes on the screen to highlight points to your players. You can then email the footage to your players for review.

iPad: Cricket Coach Plus HD

This is the bigger brother of the two applications for the iPhone and offers greater clarity on the excellent iPad screen. The increased screen size is very good when giving instant feedback to the players on the side of the ground or at the back of a net session.

SwingReader or Excelade

Initially designed for golf analysis yet offers excellent feedback for all sports. Does everything that Cricket Coach Plus HD does yet incorporates a means of high

Igniting stills of the footage and applying text which can then be emailed to the player along with the video footage. I have received encouraging feedback on the reports that were sent through to the players that I worked with last week using the applications.

Computer

The best two software packages that I have worked with on my laptop are Quintic and SiliconCoach which offer an incredible number of analysis and report options. These systems are ideal for coaches who use video analysis on a regular basis and have a bigger budget as the laptop and high quality video camera will also need to be purchased to complete the system.

Posted by Mark Garaway

http://www.pitchvision.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-video-analysis-gear-and-software

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Ajmal’s bowling was tested in 3D…

January 18th, 2012 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

Dr Paul Hurrion : ICC Biomechanics Analyst
18th January 2012

Saeed Ajmal was tested in 2009 in Australia and we have used the same methods for many bowlers across the world. The process is very robust. We use a big enough sports hall so the bowler can make his typical run-up and bowl a full-length delivery. It is important to replicate what it is like in the middle as best we can.

There are stumps to aim at but no batsman and we use synchronised footage of the player bowling in a match to check that they are not just going through the motions or altering their style. They have to replicate the speed of a delivery from a match, the deviation and the revolutions of the ball.

When being tested, the bowler is topless and has reflective markers all over his bowling arm, so the 3D, high-speed cameras can film him from every angle. On TV, what you see is an optical illusion because the pictures are only 2D so the angle you see is often very different from the reality. We then check if the arm is bent more than the permitted 15 degrees, which we decided was appropriate as anything under that would be hard to see with the naked eye.

Of course, until technology is good enough to have X-ray cameras from the boundary at a live game we can’t ever be 100 per cent sure that our testing is perfect. I’m sure in 10 years’ time there will be the technology to test as the game is happening.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2088019/Saeed-Ajmal-bowling-tested-3D-angles–Dr-Paul-Hurrion.html#ixzz1kfWd7YYk

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YCB Coaches Conference 2011

November 23rd, 2011 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

WORKSHOP – QUINTIC (BIOMECHANICS/VIDEO ANALYSIS)

Dax Sowrey, coach at Undercliffe CC, gives his report of a debut appearance at the Conference for Yorkshire cricket coaches.

This really appealed to me as I want to progress onto Club Coach and hopefully Level3 and video analysis is one of the disciplines needed to achieve that goal. So twenty-odd of us squeezed into one of the smaller rooms to hear Dr Paul discuss the use of the Quintic software to analyse individual performance and technique. This was with a view to identifying problematic areas in the technique that might cause stresses and strains and potential career threatening injuries.

The software was great but I have to say I was more interested in what Dr Paul had to say. He wasn’t there (in his own words) to sell us the software but to actually discuss biomechanics. It was fascinating. He held the whole audience in awe. There were gasps and groans aplenty watching some of the high frame slow motion video clips of well known fast bowlers and their actions.

The amount of abuse that occurs due to having an incorrect technique is frightening! The problem now is that it is all well and good being able to identify that an athlete has an issue with their technique but after a certain age it is irreversible and those athletes know they are playing on borrowed time.

I was left with the overwhelming impression that I could make a difference. Through positive coaching and utilising all the technology and resources available, that potential short term careers could be extended and in fact that the players could become better athletes and achieve even greater feats. I have always said that speed doesn’t always bring power when bowling and Dr Paul proved this with the Quintic video analysis software.

In fact, he pointed out that 85% of our cricket Academy hopefuls are not using their bodies’ power effectively due to too much speed in their run up to the crease. They are travelling too fast for their bodies to handle the stresses and this causes a multitude of effects to occur, notably increased impact stresses on the legs and spine but also a decrease in power and accuracy when releasing the ball. Use of the Quintic technology allowed you to identify an optimum approach speed but also to identify the exact moment that a technique needed to be modified.

After all this, the day came to an end which seemed like quite an anti-climax. So much information had been imparted on multiple levels my head was buzzing but I would have liked there to have been a closing group discussion just to tie up all that had taken place during the day.

I think that I would like to go to the National Conference when it is finalised. The information and tools I gleaned from the YCBCA conference will be put to good use and hopefully will benefit not only my students, my coaching and gameplay but more importantly the game of cricket.

For the full article, please visit : http://www.yorkshirecricketboard.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=528:ycb-coaches-conference-2011&catid=310:ycb-seminar&Itemid=32

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WICB opens fast bowling workshop to all coaches

August 31st, 2011 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

St John’s, Antigua– Aug. 31, 2011

Cricket coaches across the Caribbean with an interest in specializing in fast bowling will have an opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the discipline. The West Indies Cricket Board is hosting a Fast Bowling Coaches Workshop at the Sagicor High Performance Center in Barbados on September 8th and 9th.

World renowned Biomechanist Dr Paul Hurrion, will join West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson and Sagicor HPC Bowling Coach and West Indies Under 19 Head Coach Roddy Estwick in delivering the two day workshop along with other specialists.

The workshop will address several areas critical to the fast bowling discipline including Biomechanical Principles, Assessing Actions, Video Analysis, Understanding Swing and Fitness for Bowling among several other areas.

WICB is funding the full participation of two coaches from each Territorial Board. However given the interest from other coaches the WICB has decided to also open the workshop to a select number of additional coaches.

Selected coaches will be responsible for their travel and accommodation. There will be no participation charge for the workshop.

The workshop will take place on September 8th and 9th and applications are open to coaches from across the Caribbean.

This Fast Bowling Coaches Workshop follows workshops for Territorial Development Officers and Youth Coaches, Umpires and Match Referees and development workshops for Under 15 and Under 19 players in the WICB Regional Under 15 and Under 19 Tournaments.

Fidel Edwards – West Indies (Fast Bowling)

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Quintic sponsor age group cricket at Northants…

May 6th, 2011 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

Quintic are pleased to announce the sponsorship of age group cricket for the 2011 season at Northants. Quintic has long been involved in cricket and in particular specialising in biomechanical and equipment analysis working with the ECB and a number of English County Teams.

The ‘Quintic’ Sports Biomechanical video analysis software uses state of the art technology to allow super slow motion analysis and progressive frame analysis – This allows coaches to give expert analysis of a player’s technique, skill and physical attributes. Northants CC have a Quintic video analysis suite with a multi-site licence for coaches, players, parents to review and analysis performance in fine detail.

All the best for the upcoming season… For more information please visit www.northantscricket.com

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Lumbar vertebral stress injuries in fast bowlers: A review of prevalence

February 27th, 2011 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

M. Johnson, M. Ferreira, J. Hush*
Discipline of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, 75 East St, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia

Objectives: To provide a concise overview of the prevalence and risk factors in the development of lumbar vertebral stress injuries in cricketers who are fast bowlers.

Methods: A search of Medline, SPORTDiscus and CINAHL databases was conducted to find relevant studies pertaining to: cricket, cricket biomechanics and lumbar vertebral stress injuries. Narrative review methods were used to synthesise the data.

Results: The prevalence of lumbar vertebral stress injuries in fast bowlers is high, with figures up to 67% reported. Potential risk factors identified include bowling action, overuse, age, lumbar muscle asymmetry and physical characteristics. While prospective studies provide evidence that bowling action and overuse are risk factors for developing lumbar vertebral stress injuries, to date there is limited evidence, largely from cross-sectional studies, regarding the other factors.

Conclusions: This study provides an up-to-date overview of the current literature on prevalence and risk factors for lumbar vertebral stress injuries in fast bowlers. This information may assist clinicians to prevent injury through early identification of risk factors. Recommendations for future research directions include further prospective investigation of the role of age, physical characteristics and muscle asymmetry in the development of such injuries as well as gender specific risk factors.

Acknowledgements : The authors would like to thank Dr Paul Hurrion from Quintic Consultancy Ltd, England and Wales, for generously providing digital images to illustrate the bowling actions.

Article history:
Received 11 December 2009: Received in revised form 15 December 2010: Accepted 17 January 2011

Keywords:
Fractures, Stress, Lumbar spine, Risk factors, Prevalence, Cricket

To view the complete academic paper, please download from the following link:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2011.01.002

Please note access to the full text of this article will depend on your personal or institutional entitlements.

Johnson, M., et al., Lumbar vertebral stress injuries in fast bowlers: A review of prevalence and risk factors, Physical Therapy in Sport (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ptsp.2011.01.002

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Video Analysis Coaching arrives at the Northants County Cricket Ground

December 17th, 2010 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

Northants Recreational Cricket is pleased to announce a very ‘Special’ Christmas Present Offer by introducing Northants Cricket’s brand new Quintic Video Analysis software. If you’re still looking for that perfect present for a cricket mad individual, then Northants Recreational Cricket may just have the answer, with a special Christmas present offer of One to One Cricket coaching with video analysis.

The software will be used by all cricketers in Northamptonshire, from budding youngsters right the way through to the Steelbacks’ first XI.

Budding cricketers would receive a whole host of benefits including three one hour coaching sessions with a fully qualified ECB coach with video analysis at each session. The packages also include a ticket to one of the Steelbacks’ home t20 matches in the 2011 season.

The package will be sent in a gift Card presentation pack and costs just £150

The Present includes;

- Three one hour sessions with a Senior Coach
- Video Analysis at each session
- Memory Stick with Video Footage to review at home
- A written development plan to accompany the video footage
- A ticket for a Northants FP t20 game in the 2011 season of your choice
- Gift Card Presentation Pack

For more information or to purchase this special coaching package please contact Derek Styman on 01604-609253 or email derek.styman@nccc.co.uk

http://northantscricket.com/index.php?mod=show_news&id_nws=610

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Quintic, India and Bangalore’s Finest Cricket Academy – KIOC

February 3rd, 2010 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

Karnataka Institute of Cricket, popularly known KIOC is the first cricketing academy in India to be using Quintic Video Analysis software. During a recent visit to the UK, Mr Irfan Sait who started coaching cricket in 1995, undertook training and installation of the Quintic software.

KIOC operates throughout the day as many senior state cricketers utilize the facility for specific training. The five bowling machine’s available at the Institute are a great boon to the trainees – beginners as well as professional cricketers can make good use of the facilities. With the Quintic Video analysis facility and the Gray-Nicoll’s software available at KIOC it is a dream come true for any aspiring cricketer.

Irfan Sait, started Coaching in 1995 after visiting various clubs and academies in Australia. He has played in every division of the Karnataka Cricket league (from the sixth to the first division) He also played the Times Shield in Mumbai. Over the years he has developed “KIOC” into the best Cricket academy in Bangalore. To the day he remains a humble servant to Karnataka Cricket.

Mr Irfan Sait (KOIC) and Australian Cricket Captain, Rick Ponting

The KIOC ”Cricket Academy in Bangalore” provide visitors from abroad with programs tailored to meet their personal needs. This may include Fitness, Physiotherapy, Injury Prevention, Psychology, Captaincy and Tactics as well as the usual batting, bowling and fielding coaching. It doesn’t matter if you are in India for a week or for one year, you will go home a much improved cricketer. The cricket academy has visitors from countries such as Sri Lanka, Canada, Dubai, U S A and the U K.

Top Karnataka cricketers including the likes of Bharath Chipli, Deepak Chowgale and more recently CM Gautam have been groomed at our “Cricket academy”. The Indian Women’s team regularly train at the KIOC facility under the watchful eyes of Mr Irfan Sait. The impact “KIOC” has had on Karnataka cricket is immeasurable, rolling out high performance cricketers year after year.

KIOC – Bangalore’s finest cricket academy is thoroughly equipped with latest cricket accessories and equipments. We have introduced 5 Bowling Machines, Quintic Digital Video analysis equipment and Software, Speed check gun / Radar, Multi-Gym, 16 “BOX TYPE” nets, Many other Training Aids. Hostel Facility for overseas and outstation trainees including an indoor facility during the summer months.

For further information, please contact: Mr Irfan Sait – Mobile +9198444 74743, Office 080 3247 3434. cricketkioc@hotmail.com

Camp Location :
Karnataka Institute Of Cricket,
R B A N M’s Ground,
Opp Ajanta Theatre,
Near Commercial Street / Ulsoor Lake,
Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore – 560001.

Mailing Address:
Karnataka Institute Of Cricket,
Ground Floor ‘A’,
Casa Miller Apartments,
Nandidurga Road,
Benson Town, Bangalore – 560046.

http://kioc.net/index.htm

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Murali’s feats thrown into confusion by ICC expert

November 11th, 2007 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

Time for Action? Last 300 Test scalps ‘open to scrutiny’ cliams human-movement specialist…

By Stephen Brenkley – Cricket Correspondent
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 11th November 2007

Any day now, one of the greatest of all cricket records will be broken. It has changed hands regularly in the past 10 years but this time it will be different, this time the man holding it will do so for an extremely long time. For ever should not be ruled out.

As of yesterday, Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan off-spinner, needed seven more Test wickets to overtake Shane Warne’s total of 708. Since he is only 35, has an insatiable appetite for dismissing batsmen and the next man on the list has 566 wickets, the conclusion that he will be hard to catch is obvious.

So prolific is Muralitharan that it is hardly fanciful to suggest he might go past 1,000 wickets. It has taken him 114 matches to get this far (Warne, pictured, played 145) and if he continues his present rate of progress he would reach four figures in another 48 matches, probably shortly before his 40th birthday.

It has been a phenomenal achievement, and it should be a moment of glorious celebration in the next two weeks in Australia or next month against England in Kandy. Instead, the applause, though loud, will be accompanied by some vigorous head-shaking at the back.

For as long as he lives, Murali, an engaging man and fierce competitor, will never rebut the conviction in some quarters that his action is illegal; that, not to put too fine a point on it, he throws. The allegation, disproved at least twice by a combination of slow-motion film and human-movement specialists, has blighted his career. Nothing in cricket, and perhaps in all sport, evokes greater emotion than the bowler who is branded a chucker. Wife-beaters have had a better press.

Anybody hearing any random discussion about Murali would assume that innuendo was a new type of mystery delivery. The topic of his bizarre but compelling action and whether it falls within the realms of legality under Law 24.3 – much less arcane than once it was – is ever-present wherever he performs. As his method is also allied to spellbinding accuracy, it simply begs to be addressed, and the fact that, statistically, he will take Test bowling to new horizons only exacerbates the matter.

Nor is it only those who follow cricket from the stands. Several more closely involved in the game have niggardly opinions on the action. Some international umpires think it is illegal but would not dare say so publicly or officially for fear of imperilling their own careers. Dr Paul Hurrion, of the International Cricket Council’s expert panel of human-movement specialists, is as dispassionate as they come. But he understands why Murali generates such emotion.

“I have no problem at all with his first 400 wickets in Test cricket when he was bowling only the off-break, but possibly some of them since then would be open to scrutiny,” he said. “I think it would be good for Murali and the game if he went through the system again. I think his standard off-break is fine, but every so often other deliveries might be open to doubt, though it is very difficult to judge with the naked eye. By now it would be difficult for anybody to put their head above the parapet.”

There are several elements to the controversy about Murali’s action, and because he has a corkscrew wrist and a congenitally bent right arm they have invariably been made more complicated. His standard off-break, as Hurrion has it, meets the law’s requirements. But whether it always did so is doubtful.

Under regulations introduced in March 2005, bowlers are allowed a 15-degree bend in the arm. Cynics suggest that this limit was agreed purely for Murali – that had it been, say, five degrees, which was the limit Hurrion set for spin bowlers when he devised his Quintic computer video software in 2001, he might have been in trouble.

Murali has been no-balled seven times by Darrell Hair for throwing, when Sri Lanka played Australia in a Test at Melbourne in 1995, and once by Ross Emerson, in a one-day international against England in Adelaide in 1999, when all hell broke loose. In the latter case at least there was certainly a hint of the man in the figurative white coat doing some grandstanding. The effect has been that Murali, a sensitive fellow, has always struggled in and against Australia.

If Murali successfully comes under the 15-degree level of extension – and Hurrion is adamant on the point – he made life more difficult for himself by developing the doosra. This is the off-spinner’s wrong ‘un, the ball that spins from leg to off to a right-handed batsman (it means “the other” in Urdu and Hindi).

It was lethal, and marvellous to see, but its relationship to bowling was slender at best. He was told to stop deploying it but the feeling has grown that he is untouchable. After so long, that is perhaps as it should be.

“It is supposed to be an ongoing process,” said Hurrion. “You can come through the system and you could still be called in the next game, though that doesn’t tend to happen. The last thing you learned is always the first thing under pressure that you forget. I would like the ICC to put in place a system where bowlers, if necessary, can be reported from the ground. There are enough cameras in place. Say something happened in the morning, it could be done with by lunchtime.”

The probability is that Murali will live out his career with no more official censure. The ICC, who now ensure that actions are monitored before players reach senior level, received no reports this year about dodgy actions.

Murali has gone beyond that. Against all but Australia (55 wickets at 31.41 compared to 702 overall at 21.51) he has been supreme, a freak and a wonder of the age. And soon, and for a very long time, he will look down on every other bowler there has been. A lesser man might use his bent arm to display two fingers.

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Hick’s Golden age – Analyse his technique with ‘Batting Mechanics’

June 10th, 2007 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software

The Worcestershire batsmen Graeme Hick needs 49 runs this week to join an elite club of cricketing legends in the 40,000 club. He will become only the 16th batsman in history to reach 40,000 first-class runs.

Already, in all professional cricket, only Graham Gooch (67,057) has scored more runs and only Sir Jack Hobbs more hundreds (197) than Hick, whose tallies stand at 62,115 runs and 174 centuries.

Graeme Hick is the co-author of the QuinticCricket. The CD incorporates video footage of all the correct techniques and visual shapes of the various batting shots. It is an invaluable coaching tool as it enables a coach and player to analyse technique in fine detail. It caters for players of all standards giving instruction on how to play all the different shots with accompanying video & audio footage. It also contains coaching games & drills that can enhance cricket awareness and maximum activity.

Batting Mechanics also allows video footage of a player to be viewed and compared through the Quintic Software. A variety of coaching drills, as performed in this manual are proven methods and short cuts to enhance and develop the various batting shots. You can also watch Graeme demonstrating a number of shots that have help make him one of the most successful batsmen in the English game.

For further information regarding ‘Batting Mechanics’ please visit: www.quinticcricket.com

The 40,000 club
1: J Hobbs (1905-34) 61,237 av 50.65
2: F Woolley (1906-38) 58,969 40.75
3: E Hendren (1907-38) 57,611 50.80
4: C Mead (1905-36) 55,061 47.67
5: W G Grace (1865-1908) 54,896 39.55
6: W Hammond (1920-51) 50,551 56.10
7: H Sutcliffe (1919-45) 50,138 51.95
8: G Boycott (1962-86) 48,426 56.83
9: T Graveney (1948-71) 47,793 44.91
10: G Gooch (1973-2000) 44,846 49.01
11: T Hayward (1893-1914) 43,551 41.79
12: D Amiss (1960-87) 43,423 42.86
13: C Cowdrey (1950-76) 42,719 42.89
14: A Sandham (1911-37) 41,284 44.82
15: L Hutton (1934-60) 40,140 55.51
16: G Hick (1983-) 39,951 52.56

Graeme Hick : 134 centuries, 152 fifties, 507 matches, 840 innings, 80 times not out, 405 highest score!

Sunday 17th June 2007 – Graeme Hick became the 16th player to reach 40,000 first-class runs by making 49 against Warwickshire. Hick adds another accolade to his career – and he is the first man to pass the milestone since Graham Gooch 13 years ago. “For someone who has achieved as much as he has in the game, to still have the drive, work ethic and hunger is great,” said his captain Vikram Solanki. “It takes a particular type of character and personality to be able to do it. As a player, he is the ultimate professional. He is still in fine shape. He has always looked after himself, he is still fit, still works hard, probably harder than anyone else now. He is an amazing guy.” Maybe the moment got to him, but Hick fell straight after passing the landmark when he was caught behind off Dale Steyn. Nevertheless, Worcestershire moved to a 56-run lead just when they were all out on the stroke of stumps at Edgbaston- thanks largely to Stephen Moore’s 112 – as the game heads towards a draw.

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