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VIDEO ANALYSIS
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The advent of video analysis has greatly improved the performances of
athletes in every discipline. Imagine in the not too distant past, athletes
relying on memory of performance or crude film review to study their
performances or that of the competition.
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A while back, I was hanging out with the Nashville Predators down in the
land of country music. While there I had the chance to see how the modern
day NHL operates their video analysis systems.
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The Predators have 12 digital satellite receivers set up, 4 - 5 monitors, a
half dozen high speed - high memory computers, digital PVRS and a library of
stuff that would make your head spin.
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How does every save made by the Flyerʼs goalies for the past year
catalogued by type or situation sound? What about every goal against a given
goalie in the last year?
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The NHL has taken video to the cutting edge. In fact, all of this
information is stored on hard drives. There is no use for the ancient thing
called videotape.