Inline Racing Institute become a Quintic distrubutor in the USA…

February 9th, 2009 | Quintic Video Software

Quintic is very excited to add another ‘World Champion’ to the ever growing list of business in the Sports Science / Coaching field of Quintic software users… 

The Inline Racing Institute (IRI) and partner World Champion ‘Jorge Botero’ have become the latest to distrubute Quintic software. The IRI was developed in 2007 have already begun touring South and Central America doing clinics on inline skating along with various USA locations for 2009. “Being able to demonstrate and use the Quintic software within the IRI properly is a major technical advantage to the skaters…” comments Joseph Hanna, director of IRI.

Jorge Botero is a 7 times World Champion in Inline Speed Skating and has become a legend in the world of Speed Skating. Jorge is also the owner of JB Fitness, a Personal Training company coaching and training people in the fitness world as well as weight loss, body sculpting, training, nutrition and much more. Jorge is also involved in the research and development of the Inline skate to enhance as well as cater to the Rollersports world. To find out more about Jorge please visit his website www.JORGEBOTERO.com

Quintic believe that IRI have an excellent resume in business and business relations and would be a great assett going forward. 

www.inlineracinginstitute.com/index.html

Dr Paul Hurrion (Quintic), Jorge Botero & Joseph Hanna (IRI)

QUINTIC PARTNERSHIP EXTENDS TO 2010

December 19th, 2008 | Quintic Video Software

QUINTIC PARTNERSHIP EXTENDS TO 2010
EIS Press Release – 19.12.08

After a successful two year agreement, the English Institute of Sport (EIS) and Quintic Consultancy will extend their innovative partnership which sees Quintic as Preferred Supplier of Biomechanical Performance Analysis Software to EIS up to 2010.

Quintic Consultancy are specialists in sports biomechanics and performance analysis software which they continually develop to maintain their position as one of the frontrunners in the analysis of sporting performance and technique. Having utilised the software with a wide range of sports, EIS practitioners will be able to further their application with the partnership focusing on the provision of software licences, a dedicated telephone support service, training of EIS support staff as well as some bespoke product development.

“We have benefitted from utilising the software across a wide range of sports we work with over the past two years” says Stafford Murray, EIS National Lead for Performance Analysis.“To maximise the effectiveness of our skilled practitioners, forging partnerships with leading providers such as Quintic is vital for our ongoing development and world class support services to sports.

“Now in the run up to a home Games in 2012, ensuring questions in sport around human movement, using technology such as Quintic, will prove an integral part in the delivery of biomechanical and performance analysis support. We have used their analysis tools in most sports around the EIS network, completing particularly innovative and successful interventions in performance level cycling, squash and athletics – highlighting the level to which this software is being used by our practitioners. This kind of analysis is now making day to day differences to our elite athletes’ performances, which is essentially what we are measured on” he added.

Dr Paul Hurrion, Director of Quintic Consultancy Limited says :

“Quintic Biomechanics Software provides ACCURATE, FAST & COMPREHENSIVE analysis of human movement / sporting technique. Quintic is delighted to have a close relationship with EIS and in the lead up to 2012, Quintic Software will provide athletes and coaches with the biomechanical FEEDBACK necessary to compete at the elite level.

“Quintic Software is an essential aid for coaches and athletes at all levels of sport, which is why Quintic is the preferred supplier of Biomechanical Analysis Software to the English Institute of Sport.”

The EIS Corporate Partnership Programme was launched in January 2006 and offers brands the opportunity to support the EIS and hence play their part in the delivery of sport science and medical services to the medal winning talent of today and tomorrow. A showcase for innovation, science, technology and research.

Casio Exilim Ex-FH20 High-Speed Camera

December 12th, 2008 | Quintic Video Software

Casio’s latest camera The Exilim Ex-FH20 allows the user to capture videos at up to a staggering a 1000fps. All of the videos are saved as avi files so they can be downloaded onto the computer via the high-speed USB lead and played directly in Quintic v14 software.

The EX-FH20 can make high-speed film recordings of movements that are too fast for the naked eye, enabling them to be played back in ultra-slow motion. To do this, you can choose a recording speed of 210 fps, 420 fps or 1000 fps. The EX-FH20 features a large, bright 7.6-cm (3.0-inch) TFT colour display (super clear LCD) that permits viewing from almost any angle. This is great for instant playback in the field…

The HD video recording feature of the EXILIM EX-FH20 makes it possible to create colourful and high-detail videos with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. (Max. recording length 10 minutes/video)

The camera can also take up to 40 photos per second with the high-speed serial picture recording feature. The recording image rate can be varied between 1 and 30 photos per second with up to 8 megapixels or 40 photos with up to 7 megapixels. A maximum of 40 photos can be taken in a second, or in intervals 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 or 30 photos in next to no time, such as 10 photos in 4 seconds. This way, you will always capture exactly the right moment!

The CMOS shift technology reduces the risk of blurred photos, even with images taken using 20x optical zoom, making it possible to photograph subjects a long distance away without blurring.

Please contact Quintic for more details regarding the EX-FH20 High-speed camera info@quintic.com

GEL is Number One Groove Putter in Asia

October 15th, 2008 | GEL Golf, Putting Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

GEL Golf has firmly established itself as the number one groove putter on Tour in Asia with GEL putters dominating the statistics on the Asian and China Tours over the last couple of months and consolidating its position at last week’s Tour events.

At the Indian Open on the Asian Tour which finished on Sunday (October 12), a total of 21 players had GEL putters in their bags in New Delhi ahead of groove putter rival Yes, who had 16 players in the field using their putters.

Whilst at the Omega Championship, the season-ending Tour Championship on the China Tour, GEL putters completely overshadowed all other putter brands with 27 players – over 25% of the field – choosing to use a GEL putter.

The news completes a breakthrough year for GEL Golf which has already celebrated three Tour victories around the world in the last 12 months; Bryan Saltus of the United States won the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open on the Asian Tour last December with his GEL Sapphire putter, Taiwanese Hsu Mong-nam secured victory in the Omega China Tour’s Shanghai Championship in May with a GEL Jade putter and in early September American Tom Stankowski captured the Canadian Tour Championship in Ontario using a GEL Emerald putter.

“Considering GEL Golf was only launched at the start of 2007, we are immensely proud of the incredible progress we have made with GEL Putters in the ultra-competitive golf market,”

Alec Pettigrew, CEO of Hong Kong-based GEL Golf.

“With so many professionals now using GEL Putters on Tour, it proves that we have developed a good quality product that quite simply helps hole putts more often. Whilst we are 100% confident that groove and insert technology creates instant forward roll on the golf ball, thus reducing the unwelcome effects of skidding and giving a straighter, truer roll, the pros are now discovering this for themselves and relying on GEL Putters to improve their performance on tour. There is no greater endorsement for our product that this.”

One of golf’s most innovative technology manufacturers, GEL Golf uses horizontal precision-cut, aluminium inserts for a more responsive feel and enhanced sweet spot. Following feedback from Tour pros, GEL has made their putters larger, heavier and more balanced heads, encouraging an even smoother and more rhythmical putting stroke.

The original GEL Putter range launched in January 2007 at the PGA Golf Show in Orlando comprises of six models, namely the Emerald, Diamond, Sapphire, Jade, Opal and Ruby whilst the latest range, the GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range boasts four models; the Rego, Scindo, Sedo and Sedo II.

Dr Paul Hurrion, a leading sports biomechanists and a renown putting coach to a host of top European and Ryder Cup stars, combined over 10 years of research and development in biomechanics and putting with GEL’s groove and insert technology, to create the distinctive GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range.

To look at, GEL Putters are easily distinguishable using bright yellow and blue grips for men, and pink and blue grips for women, and electric blue and pink face inserts.

 

www.gelgolf.co.uk

Hi-Tec wins GOLF EUROPE Product Awards 2008

October 8th, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Hi-Tec, Quintic Video Software

Global sports and outdoor footwear manufacture HI-TEC are proud winners of the Golf Europe Product Awards 2008 presented yesterday at the Golf Europe Exhibition, Germany. Judged by leading industry experts the HI-TEC Pure Power WPi scooped top prize at this years prestigious awards only open exclusively to innovative products scheduled for market introduction in 2009.

The brand new HI-TEC Pure Power WPi is a revolution in golf footwear, never seen before! Featuring HI-TEC’s exclusive CDT game enhancement technology, developed in partnership with Quintic Consultancy and world number 4 and 3 time major winner Padraig Harrington, this style continues to prove that winning power does come from your feet!

The Pure Power WPi also features the worlds first in nano technology – ion-mask™. ion-mask™ is a brand new, earth friendly, scientific advancement that works on a molecular level to repel water and other liquids, ensuring your footwear stays lighter, dryer and cleaner for longer, without changing the original properties of the material.

Unlike other waterproofing technologies that only offer waterproofing with a degree of breathability, the ion-mask™ water management technology offers a further 6 key benefits.

The award winning Power Power WPi represents a perfect illustration of HI-TEC’s commitment to instantly comfortable and lightweight game enhancing footwear. Available from May 2009 in White / Silver and White / Cobalt in sizes 6-12’s inc halves the Pure Power WPi has a suggested retail around £109.99.

Discover more about HI-TEC featuring ion-mask at www.wetisdry.com
Discover more about HI-TEC CDT at www.cdtpower.com

ProStance : the most balanced argument yet for the optimum swing…

August 21st, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Education, Golf Biomechanics, Putting Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

Quintic Consultancy Ltd is proud to be apart of the latest golf training aid to hit the market! ProStance is based on many years of biomechanical research carried out at Quintic.

Good balance is essential to powerful and consistent golf shots, putts, chips, and full swings. The human body makes compensations both at address and during the swing to give us the impression we are in balance. Biomechanical research carried out at Quintic has found that as golfers, we don’t always know where our weight is truly positioned! We may think that are weight is distributed evenly and ready to hit the golf ball, however, it isn’t until we use biomechanical analyse, in particular force platforms that the true answer is revealed. Even some of the world’s best golfers think they are doing one thing, but actually are doing something else.

The ProStance is borne out many years data collection, research, coaching experiences and ultimately feedback from golfers and coaches at all levels about the product. Research into putting and full swing biomechanics has highlighted the need for the golfer to be stable at address and dynamically balanced during the swing. The ProStance is the latest training aid to enable to golfer to help achieve this. It is simple to use, yet the results are instant and the benefits are a more consistent and powerful strike.

Dr Paul Hurrion MD of Quintic Consultancy, now brings to the consumer coaching aids market the ProStance ™ balance aid, and as one might expect, it’s a winner! ProStance is a product that forces you to become very aware of balance, it’s simple, reliable and supremely efficient.

A key collaborator with Hurrion on perfecting the ProStance is teaching pro Stewart Craig. The two professionals are prefect foils for each other in this. Hurrion’s podiatric work with companies like Hi-Tec and Titleist Performance Institute highlighted the need for ProStance in the first place. Craig’s daily contact with club and county players helped provide a working template that would fit into the training settings of every golfer. The perspective that most pros look at a student’s swing invariably from the waist up was the key to ensuring the benefits of ProStance were not just meaningful to golfers at Tour standard, but to commonplace technique needs as well.

“In my experience the majority of coaching professionals address faults with compensations, explains Craig. However, most of the root problems in the golf swing are due to static or dynamic balance issues. What happens below the waist causes the problems above the waist.”

With the intellectual ability of the partnership now making a real difference to the development of the ProStance, it still took several years to bring to market-readiness. The final results are for every golfer to try and use on a daily basis.

Enjoy the ProStance. A consistent, powerful golf swing starts with a stable set-up and dynamic balance during the swing. ProStance gives you instant feedback during every swing.

Enjoy the results… for more information please visit www.pro-stance.com

“The ProStance is a great tool for any golfer at any level. Balance is the key to the golf swing as it enables the body to make a controlled and repeatable golf swing. Without the correct balance, your mechanics are a series of compensatory movements. The ProStance helps build balance and stability for every part of the game from putting, chipping to the full swing…”   
Padraig Harrington

“I would never have believed that so many faults in the golf swing and putting stroke emanate from poor balance in the set up position. The ProStance has simplified my golf swing and helped me make more powerful, efficient and most of all consistent swings…”
Paul McGinley

  “The ProStance is cutting edge and simplicity all in one… It will enhance your golfing ability immediately, due to your increases body awareness…”
Bradley Dredge
 

“I use the product daily to confirm and maintain my posture at address…”
Richard Finch
 

“I first met Dr Paul Hurrion in 2005 and have unquestionable belief in his ability as a putting coach. The ProStance encompasses a lot of his principles and teachings in a training aid. Without the correct balance, your putting mechanics are a series of compensatory movement. Manipulation of the club head does not stand up to pressure… “
Philip Archer

“The importance of balance in golf is often underestimated. The research of Dr Paul Hurrion (and Stewart Craig) highlights the influence that balance has on reducing compensatory swing adjustments in turn producing more consistency and power for the golfer. The ProStance enables the golfer to establish and feel the correct balance both at address and throughout the golf swing in every area of the game. This training aid is a must for those who want to seriously improve their game.”
Alison Nicholas

www.pro-stance.com

The role of video analysis in self improvement

August 4th, 2008 | Quintic Video Software

The commoditization of hardware has put digital movie-making within the grasp of everyone.

Consultancies such as Quintic specialize in capturing action images, and – with a combination of biomechanical knowledge and specifically developed software – clearly show how athletic performance can be optimized and risk of injury minimized.

But specifically how one can use this for best effect is something that not everyone appreciates. Humans have quite slow vision. The human eye can only separate a maximum of ten or twelve images per second. There are even some suggestions amongst scientists that events lasting less than a quarter of a second cannot usually be seen clearly, if at all.

Video cameras create the illusion of motion by ‘tricking’ the human eye. Video cameras play 25 flashing still pictures each second. As the eye cannot separate those pictures, we get the feeling of continuous movement. The use of a video camera is a very effective tool to help you improve sporting technique. Quintic video analysis software enables video capture at 25, 50 and 100fps. At 100fps each still image is 10ms apart, capable of capturing even the fastest of human movement. Add a second video camera, and the benefits of video have just doubled!

More and more athletes, coaches, scientists are using video feedback as a coaching aid. Video can very quickly help athletes to understand the basic fundamentals of a specific movement. Providing athletes with immediate performance feedback via Quintic video software is a very powerful analysis tool… the images are used to assist coaches in their task, as the athlete’s performance can be repeated afterwards and slowed down during critical phases.

By comparing performances of previous movements, or even other athletes, Quintic software enables you to compare video images via the computer screen. Differences between the techniques can be identified (competition vs. training) and this information made available immediately to the athlete. The coach and the athlete can discuss what they see and plan a strategy for improvement, then repeat the process. How the feedback is presented to the athlete when using Quintic is highly dependent upon the skill of the coach or analyst.

By studying your technique in depth, (frame-by-frame), you can start to build a picture of what you’re trying to achieve. Seeing an improvement can boost your confidence. Normally it’s difficult to correct a fault, even if you know what you should be doing. This is because you don’t normally see yourself in action. You can learn a great deal from studying your own technique on video. The benefits of video apply to all levels of performance, from the beginner to the professional golfer.

Some simple tips will greatly enhance the value of your images… There are four basic operations, which can significantly influence the use of cameras and the quality of images:

· zoom
· focus
· iris
· shutter speed

Zoom
During set-up of your camera, it is important to be at right angles, or 90 degrees to the action. The zoom function in the camera changes the picture size and allows you to stand much further back from the action. It is important that the athlete is as large as possible in the camera view. The zoom allows you to have all the details of the performance on the camera, with the view restricted to show only the golfer and nothing else if possible.

Focus
The camera should be set up so that the entire body is contained within each frame. The correct distance between the camera and subject should be recorded, to allow comparisons in the future (Typically 8-10metres). Set the camera to automatic focus. Data collected using Quintic Biomechanics must have a repeatable and consistent set-up protocol. This will ensure the numeric & graphical representation of variables such as speed, distance, acceleration are accurate. Quintic also accounts for any Parallax error values during the calibration of any particular video.

However, if using a panning or moving camera often a manual focus will ensure correct images are recorded. Auto focus constantly checks and focuses based on what is at the centre of the picture. This, though, is not always practical when videotaping athletes. By learning to use manual focus, you can avoid this problem. Manual focus is set for a certain distance (you do not need to know the distance) and anything that distance away from the camera is in focus. This is another reason for you to stand far away from the athlete (and use the zoom function).

A good hint for manual focusing from a long distance is that you zoom in as close as possible, focus your camera using something like the text on an athlete’s clothing and then zoom out to a desired level so that the whole athlete can be seen in the picture. The image stays focused as zoom and focus are independent of each other.

Iris:
The iris is the function in your camera, which allows the light come into the camera through the lens. Many cameras have this only as an auto function and so you may not be able to change it. In any case, auto iris is not such a bad thing as the lighting conditions could change during the session, as happens when clouds go in the front of the sun. If you have a camera with a manual iris option, then you can test out its influence on the picture quality. Obviously, more light (smaller iris number) makes your picture brighter (but can also make it too bright), while closing the iris makes the picture darker.

Shutter Speed:
Shutter speed options are essential for good quality video taping of athletics performance, particularly when the speeds are fast… In a normal situation, the picture is taken over 0.04 seconds (25 pictures in a second). During even that short time, however, an athlete can move a great deal and thus you see a blurred image in your slow motion tape (like TV slow motion repetitions of a tennis ball in a close line call – often you do not really see the ball at all, just a trace of blurred ball images). Shutter speed allows you to reduce the time over which the individual picture is taken. The majority of camcorders today have automatic settings for various filming projects (refer to manufacture’s guidelines). However, the sports setting – typically a picture of a golfer or runner will provide you with the highest shutter speed setting.

Note: That does not allow you to take any more pictures: there are still only 25 / 50 or 100 fps frames per second (as this is pre-determined by the camera and computer software), but each picture is taken over a shorter period of time. A shutter speed of 1/500s means that each picture is taken over a time frame of 0.002s. The down side of increasing the shutter speed is that you need much more light. This is not usually a problem outdoors, and it is recommended to use at least 1/1000s shutter speed for athletics movement if possible, shutter speeds of 1/10,000 can be used for particular sharp and clear images. However, sometimes when filming indoors you need to compromise and use a lower shutter speed. Additional lighting may well be required.
Quintic would recommend you to make a verbal report to the camera after each shot, throw, jump… for example; commenting on the flight, distance, result… Without this information, the subsequent viewing of the tape will not give the best possible information.
Finally, remember that the videotapes always rewind slightly at the end of the recording, so be careful not to cut away the end of the performance when you stop the recording. Film a few seconds prior to and after the actual performance. This also makes easier viewing, as there are distinct sequences on the tape.

Ensure that the camera is a 3CCD – CCD stands for Charged Couple Device – it’s the device that colours the pixels (little dots on your screen – comes from the words ‘picture element’). The majority of cameras only have one CCD using a filter to split the colours to RGB (Red Green and Blue). However a 3CCD camera boasts a CCD for each colour, resulting in better picture quality as the colours are more defined and accurate.

For further details please visit www.quintic.com

Padraig Harrington wins the 137th Open Championship!

July 24th, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics, Putting Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

Padraig defends his Open Championship in style with a fine final round of one under par 69 to give him a four shot victory. He joins an exclusive club of multiple major winners, is the first European to defend his title in 102 years and is now ranked at number 3 in the world….

Six opening pars gave Padraig the start he needed in the last round of the Open and he never really looked back after that. Bogies on the 7th 8th and 9th gave him some work to do but he finished in style with birdies on the 13th and 15th before the shot of the day at the par five 17th where he hit his second shot close to make an eagle three and give himself a four shot lead down the last. Speaking afterwards he said it was very satisfying to be out in the last group in a major and to perform under pressure. He leaps to number three in the world rankings and is number one on the Ryder Cup team going to Valhalla in September…

Congratulations Padraig from all at Quintic.

With this win Padraig Harrington secured his 13th European Tour International Schedule victory in his 275th European Tour event. It was his second Major Championship victory in his 41st Major Championship appearance.

*His second Open Championship victory following his triumph in 2007. His second win came in his 12th Open Championship appearance.
*First player to successfully defend The Open Championship since Tiger Woods in 2005-2006.
*Becomes the 16th player to successfully defend The Open Championship title.
*Becomes the first European to successfully defend The Open Championship since James Braid in 1905-1906.
*Becomes the 26th different player to record multiple victories in The Open Championship.
*Becomes only the second European Tour Member to successfully defend a Major Championship, following Nick Faldo at the 1989-1990 Masters Tournament.
*Becomes the 31st different player to successfully defend a Major Championship.
*Becomes the first player to successfully defend a European Tour title since Tiger Woods at the 2006-07 US PGA Championship.
*First time he has successfully defended a European Tour title in his career.
*The 51st occasion a European Tour event has been successfully defended.
*The 28th different player in European Tour history to successfully defend a title.
*The third Irish victory in a Major Championship, following his win in 2007 and Fred Daly in the 1947 Open Championship.
*His fourth top ten finish in The Open Championship from his 12 appearances – and 11th overall top ten from his Major Championship career.
*His victory becomes the 34th Major Championship victory since 1979 by a European Tour Member.
*Becomes the ninth different European Tour Member to win a Major Championship since 1979.
*The sixth Irish victory of The 2008 European Tour International Schedule. The most in a single European Tour season, beating the five of 1989. They are: Graeme McDowell (Ballantine’s Championship and The Barclays Scottish Open), Damien McGrane (Volvo China Open), Darren Clarke (BMW Asian Open), Peter Lawrie Open de España) and Padraig Harrington (The 137th Open Championship).
*Moves to fourth in the European Tour Order of Merit with €1,438,076 from 29th.
*Moves to the top of The Ryder Cup World Points List with 238.64
*Second victory of 2008 following the Ladbrokes Irish PGA Championship last week.
*Third consecutive European Tour season with a victory.
*Moves to a career-high of third in the Official World Golf Ranking.
*Gains a five year exemption into The Masters Tournament, the US Open Championship and USPGA Championship.
*Gains a place in the 2008 PGA Grand Slam of Golf
*Gains a place in the 2008 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational
*Gains a place in the 2009 HSBC Champions
*Extends his European Tour exemption until the end of 2018.
*Moves over €18 million in European Tour Official Career Earnings – just the fourth player to achieve the feat
*The 44th Irish victory on The European Tour.
*Third top ten finish of the 2008 season and 95th of his European Tour career
*His 23rd win as a professional.

Estonian Olympic Committee and Quintic

June 19th, 2008 | Athletics, Quintic Video Software

With the Olympics fast approaching and the use of video analysis becoming more desirable within the world of sports coaching. The Estonian Olympic Committee held a video analysis conference in Tallinn with over 40 coaches from various disciplines attending.

Quintic along with Dartfish, Silicon Coach, and Focus were invited to attend and asked to demonstrate how video analysis systems could benefit the sports coach in both individual and team sport disciplines.

Simon Kerry, one of Quintic’s Sports Science Consultants, represented Quintic and used his own experiences of working with coaches to demonstrate how functions such as: Blend, Angles, Export *avi, Quintic’s Premier capture, and Automatic Digitisation allow the coach to capture, analyse and provide feedback quickly and effectively.

As a result of this presentation the EOC (Estonian Olympic Committee) have purchased several Quintic software licences. We would like to take this opportunity to wish them all the best in their future coaching.

Case studies are available to download from our website, that explain how Quintic software can be used in a variety of different sports and scenarios. http://www.quintic.com/quinac/education.htm

Rocket Science for everybody…

June 12th, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics, Putting Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

Arnold Palmer has recently been credited with being the single most important sporting icon to begin the transformation of golf into the ‘game for everyone’. A generation before marketing became a byword for charlatanism with testosterone, Palmer’s looks, undoubted athletic prowess and his charisma made him much more ‘bankable’ than any other golf professional of his age. But here’s an interesting thing… Recently re-produced photos of Arnie in his heyday show the young dragon pouting strangely. This was mentioned in passing to John Lewis from Bay Hill by Palmer UK & Ireland, who explained that it’s because the young Palmer smoked like a chimney, but modern custom forbids this and so the Lucky Strikes have been airbrushed out but the facial expression of the habitual smoker remains. It’s representative of how sport has turned against nicotine and related sybaritic pleasures – many would have thought that golf didn’t really number among the sports where selfdenial and discipline were that evident.

At the Open in 1976, Johnny Miller walked away with the champion’s purse of £7500,having beaten Jack Nicklaus in to second place by 6 strokes. And the biggest attraction on the Royal Birkdale ground was the Guinness Tent, says an observer of the time. Golf was slightly rarefied, slightly Bertie Wooster, slightly… well… naff. Then Tiger Woods happened. With his shameless athleticism and firebrand physicality he has 60 PGA victories and 13 majors and will surely go on to break the Jack Nicklaus record of 18 majors … ‘did him no good at The Open, mind you. Padraig Harrington didn’t gain possession of the Claret Jug at The Open using a metal detector. His training regime is strict, well-researched, rigorously executed. And what’s behind it all?

Biomechanics…

When kids go to school today, if they’re taught physical education by a recent graduate of any decent training college, biomechanics will have been written large in the syllabus of what physical education teachers have to master. For those of us who aren’t aware of the term Sports Biomechanics uses the scientific methods of mechanics to study the effects of various forces on the sports performer. It is concerned, in particular, with the forces that act on the human neuromusculoskeletal system; velocities, accelerations, torque, momentum, inertia… It also considers aspects of the behaviour of sports implements, footwear and surfaces where these affect athletic performance and injury prevention.

Harrington has mastered this concept, because as an athlete his in depth knowledge of how his body works in golf competitions allows him to monitor his performance in fine detail, accentuate positive and eliminate negative aspects, as well as avoid strain or injury. Dr Paul Hurrion is a doctor of biomechanics, and consults regularly with Padraig, as well as with the likes of Paul McGinley, David Howell, Philip Archer, and Lee Westwood. During interviews with the press at the Scottish Open, much was made of Westwood’s recent visit to a putting lab to sort out his erratic performance on the greens.

“The laboratory is a room with a hard floor, green carpet, cameras all over the room and mirrors – it’s a bit kinky really,”
Lee Westwood

It’s quite an accurate description of ‘The Quintic Putting Lab’ in the centre of England
where Dr Paul Hurrion is based. It would also describe the set up Padraig Harrington has at his home in Dublin; a faithful replica of the lab at Quintic.

“Quintic Performance Analysis Software provides com-prehensive, easy to use, tools that allow me to analyse my full swing, chipping and putting in fine detail, whether I’m on the practice range, indoors or away on Tour,” explains Padraig. “I am able to synchronise and compare my swing action and tempo immediately, whilst the use of the drawing tools enables me to calculate the speed and acceleration of my club and arms.”

This science is what is making the single most meaningful contribution to sport in our time…

To read the complete article please click here download the PDF document
Hurrion – Golf Ireland.pdf



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