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[RussellEbertHandball]

The story in Tuesday's Oz about Exercise & Sports Science Australia sports accreditation standards. As I posted 6 posts above our full team was acrredited back in October 2014. Amazing to think only 26 of about 500 sports scientist Oz wide have sought a professional accreditation.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...t/news-story/264515301dd9d47af94bc9e80f5337df
The AFL has backed a move towards greater regulation of sports science in the wake of the Essendon peptides scandal, with high-performance managers and sports science staff expected to have formal accreditation within the next 18 months to continue working in the football industry. The AFL yesterday confirmed its endorsement of a new accreditation scheme developed by Exercise & Sports Science Australia, which requires anyone calling themselves a sports scientist to have a relevant tertiary qualification and experience and adhere to established professional and ethical standards.

The sports science industry has been slow to embrace the need for regulation following the drugs scandal, which exposed the role that self-styled sports scientist Stephen Dank played at Essendon in the AFL and Cronulla in the NRL. Mr Dank, a biochemist banned for life for multiple doping offences, does not have a tertiary qualification recognised by ESSA.

ESSA chief executive Anita Hobson-Powell said only 26 of an estimated 500 sports scientists and high-performance managers working in Australian sport were accredited with the peak body.
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AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said the AFL had worked with ESSA to develop the accreditation scheme. He said sports scientists employed at AFL clubs would be given 18 months to satisfy the new ESSA standard. “We are happy to endorse that framework to the industry and will look towards it becoming mandatory over time.’’

Port Adelaide high-performance manager Darren Burgess welcomed the move towards greater regulation. It is already compulsory for anyone working on his staff to have or be seeking ESSA accreditation. “It is something I am pretty big on,’’ Mr Burgess said. “I wanted to come out after all the Essendon stuff, when sports science was getting a bad rap, and make sure our department was in order.’’........
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...t/news-story/264515301dd9d47af94bc9e80f5337df

 

[BrockBlitz]

Float tanks are sensory deprivation tanks, aka isolation tanks. The ones at the Crows part owned facility are sensory deprivation tanks. From their website;

"The enclosed design of the float tank enables you to experience sensory deprivation."

I don't know about having my mind blown but it is certainly very relaxing although I am told that not everyone can handle it. Probably not good for people with FoMO.

I think you can get float tanks that aren't dark and sound proof. Essentially so you get the Red Sea experience. Great for recovery without the potential for a wig out or out of body experience !

 

[Fifty]

The story in Tuesday's Oz about Exercise & Sports Science Australia sports accreditation standards. As I posted 6 posts above our full team was acrredited back in October 2014. Amazing to think only 26 of about 500 sports scientist Oz wide have sought a professional accreditation.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...t/news-story/264515301dd9d47af94bc9e80f5337df
The AFL has backed a move towards greater regulation of sports science in the wake of the Essendon peptides scandal, with high-performance managers and sports science staff expected to have formal accreditation within the next 18 months to continue working in the football industry. The AFL yesterday confirmed its endorsement of a new accreditation scheme developed by Exercise & Sports Science Australia, which requires anyone calling themselves a sports scientist to have a relevant tertiary qualification and experience and adhere to established professional and ethical standards.

The sports science industry has been slow to embrace the need for regulation following the drugs scandal, which exposed the role that self-styled sports scientist Stephen Dank played at Essendon in the AFL and Cronulla in the NRL. Mr Dank, a biochemist banned for life for multiple doping offences, does not have a tertiary qualification recognised by ESSA.

ESSA chief executive Anita Hobson-Powell said only 26 of an estimated 500 sports scientists and high-performance managers working in Australian sport were accredited with the peak body.
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AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said the AFL had worked with ESSA to develop the accreditation scheme. He said sports scientists employed at AFL clubs would be given 18 months to satisfy the new ESSA standard. “We are happy to endorse that framework to the industry and will look towards it becoming mandatory over time.’’

Port Adelaide high-performance manager Darren Burgess welcomed the move towards greater regulation. It is already compulsory for anyone working on his staff to have or be seeking ESSA accreditation. “It is something I am pretty big on,’’ Mr Burgess said. “I wanted to come out after all the Essendon stuff, when sports science was getting a bad rap, and make sure our department was in order.’’........
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...t/news-story/264515301dd9d47af94bc9e80f5337df

Mr Burgess?? It's Dr. Burgess to you!

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[RussellEbertHandball]

BrockBlitz you will be interested in this story from NBA Australia website that piggy backs off Sporting News



http://australia.sportingnews.com/n...urs-catapult-finals/pnjswamkhh0z15q31tx9q1w8b
Science of Success: How Australians are changing teams in the NBA and beyond
The NBA Finals are in full bloom.Each year, our minds turn to what it takes for an organisation — not just ateam — to return to this theatre: culture, cohesion, talent, strategy, health, and… innovation.
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Survey the field and you’ll find that something leaps off the page: The Australian sports science community has rapidly spread its tentacles throughout the major North American leagues. Riding the wave of interest in the country’s elite sporting programs and following in the footsteps of those who first ventured into European football, Australian medical and high performance personnel have found roles with the Warriors, Spurs, Sixers, Bucks [Port's ex physio Tim O'Leary went to the Bucks at end of 2015 footy season], and Celtics, among others.

In the last few years, what was once a curiosity and later a convenient narrative has become a wholesome story of research and development.

Darren Burgess, who blazed a trail by taking up a position as Liverpool’s head of fitness and conditioning at the beginning of this decade and is currently High Performance Manager at the Port Adelaide Football Club, has watched it all unfold. “When I started to travel with the Socceroos — which was the end of 2007, start of 2008 — whenever we played in a country anywhere around the world, I’d just send some cold emails and say, ‘Look, I’m an Aussie, any chance I can come and just have a chat to you about what you’re doing?’,” recalls Burgess. “You never got knocked back, because you were an Aussie.” “Nobody knew who anybody was but because you were an Aussie, they always said, ‘Yeah, come on down and tell us what’s happening at the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport)!’”

Burgess notes that many of his colleagues forged their habits in competitions like the AFL and NRL, where hard salary caps and rigid auditing necessitate creativity and a need to breed winning cultures with more than just shrewd talent acquisition. “The [other] big thing is: Our sports are salary-cap dependent,” says Burgess. “All of the big clubs, whether it’s rugby, rugby league, or AFL, can’t go and spend money and buy the best player. In a draft system like the AFL, you’re kind of forced to develop your own players. Clubs have really successfully looked for other ways to fast-track players and to ensure that players are injury-free and develop well.”

You might wonder, what prompted this headhunting of Australian medical and conditioning experts, and will it be more than an overnight trend? For the NBA, those tabbed as progressive franchises or perceived as embracing big data jumped first. But the phase didn’t start there, and nor does it appear to be drawing to any form of conclusion. Collegiate football programs have plucked sports scientists from the Southern Hemisphere for some time now. Just ask Alex Hampton, who is now in his fourth year serving as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, but cut his teeth with the nearby Florida State University regime. It has kick-started a slow-burning philosophical change, to the point where those outside the coaching orthodoxy can have their voices heard. “It’s probably just that lack of thought about sports science at all [that delayed it in the U.S.],” Hampton told NBA Australia. “You had your [football] coaches, you had your medical, and you had your strength and conditioning.”

Footballing codes of all kinds have cautiously deviated from the monotonous, quantity-over-quality loads of deeply engrained preparation methods. Transferring the targeted technique to indoor sports where the physical toll hits more so in rigorous travel schedules and sleep deprivation than in bruising bodychecks isn’t always smooth, but it can be done.

“People within [other] codes probably think that it doesn’t, but recovery is recovery, and you know, periodisation is periodisation,” Burgess says. “As long you’re familiar with the sport and familiar with the demands of match day, I think it transfers really well. It, in fact, gives you an advantage because it doesn’t give you any bias that you might have if you played the sport or if you’ve worked in only one sport. I think it transfers really well.” As the standard-bearers for organisational best practice and poster boys for the utopian, global village model, San Antonio took the plunge in late 2014 by hiring its director of medical services from the Australian sporting spectrum.

Phil Coles, whose time at Liverpool and with the Socceroos overlapped with Burgess, joined the Spurs via the NRL’s Newcastle Knights. Says Coles: “Pop certainly doesn’t lead by committee. [For those who don't know Pop is NBA side San Antonio Spurs surly head coach Greg Popovich who has coached the Spurs to 5 NBA titles over 20 years is ex Air Force and ] Pop leads by… leading. He’s certainly the boss.” “But the reason he’s succeeded for so long is that he’s open to discussing ideas, he’s open to evolving, and the amazing thing about the Spurs’ stability over the years is that they’ve kept that stability without stagnating.”
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Coles also notes that the next challenge for the wearable tech industry’s innovators is to make their devices, put simply, more wearable. Part of that task falls squarely at the feet of Australian company Catapult Sports, the wearable tech firm that has evolved from a little-engine-that-could a decade ago, to a necessary pivot in any conversation surrounding sports science.
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The Spurs and Mavs were the league’s guinea pigs, according to Catapult Sports Performance Manager Ewan Robson, dabbling in their products almost four years ago. The next hurdle to overcome is in marrying up what teams can collect and decipher in training loads with in-game data........
“The reason for that [interest] is that we’re just in the early stages of launching our new OptimEye T6 device, which is the unit that is usable with our ClearSky (our indoor system),” says Robson. “With the launch of this ClearSky system and even just the change in the device that we’re offering for basketball — the device is about half the size of the [OptimEye] S5 — I think that’s gonna really help the discussion. At the end of the day, it’s half the size. For usability [in the games], it’s going to be a pretty important piece.” As former Catapult head of sports science Michael Regan once wrote, “The truth lies in the balance of objective numbers, subjective coaching and the knowledge of the person.” Homogenising data from wearable tech would be a major step for the league at-large. It’s a topic that’s been on the table for some time.
[This is the guy we got from Catapult as our GPS expert and recruited in December 2014 and discussed in this thread https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/port-adelaide-appoints-michael-regan-as-afl’s-first-gps-analyst.1084060/ and he is given the title on the club's website Michael Regan List Analyst and Innovation Manager]
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A lot has changed since ambitious graduates like Burgess were mailing out applications by the dozen and getting little in return. There is a budding generation of sports scientists who can refer to Burgess’ blueprint and apply the insights from tools like Catapult to develop Australia’s influence.
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http://australia.sportingnews.com/n...urs-catapult-finals/pnjswamkhh0z15q31tx9q1w8b

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Mac-Daddy = Ian McKeown Head of Athletic Development

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

http://www.scienceforsport.com/top-100-experts-in-sports-science/
Top 100 Experts in Sports Science

If you want to be a sports scientist or strength & conditioning coach, then you’d best get familiar with the work produced by this list of experts.

 

[Papa G]

What, no Cam Falloon?

 

[Jonts]

Daniel bakee is one to study to maximise big ass warriors REH

 

[PatientMental]

What, no Cam Falloon?

To be fair the 5 time premiership fitness coach Andrew Russell isn't on their either.

 

[Doctor Feel]

http://www.scienceforsport.com/top-100-experts-in-sports-science/
Top 100 Experts in Sports Science

If you want to be a sports scientist or strength & conditioning coach, then you’d best get familiar with the work produced by this list of experts.

Mladen at 38.

 

[BrockBlitz]

Mladen at 38.

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

 

[Portmanteau]

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

Interesting. I have noticed that he is almost always tweeting random unrelated stuff during our games. Philosophical differences?

 

[BornPort]

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

what? really?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

Haha I thought the publicity had gone quiet on that front.

Look at his twitter account and have gone back to 1st March, he tweets/retweets a s**t load but only Port related tweet is on 13th March with Jacko and Bobby scaling down a building, think it's the Intercontinental. He did retweet that 100 top sports scientist list on the 17th July.

He is still wearing his Port top but interestingly he changed his description from earlier this year to;

Physical Preparation Coach - Data Analyst - Bayesian wannabe - Nassim Taleb Fan - Fallible Human Being -@PAFC - Views are my own

 

[Forzaport]

Interesting. I have noticed that he is almost always tweeting random unrelated stuff during our games. Philosophical differences?

He's been tweeting that stuff since day 1, stopped following him because there was nothing Port related.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

Very interesting/odd, any clue why?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Mac-Daddy = Ian McKeown Head of Athletic Development

So we have three in the top 58. Are they earning their reputation really?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Haha I thought the publicity had gone quiet on that front.

Look at his twitter account and have gone back to 1st March, he tweets/retweets a s**t load but only Port related tweet is on 13th March with Jacko and Bobby scaling down a building, think it's the Intercontinental. He did retweet that 100 top sports scientist list on the 17th July.

He is still wearing his Port top but interestingly he changed his description from earlier this year to;

Physical Preparation Coach - Data Analyst - Bayesian wannabe - Nassim Taleb Fan - Fallible Human Being -@PAFC - Views are my own

Spends way too much on twitter and his personal stuff for my liking.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Hasn't worked for the club in months.... but that hasn't been advertised much.

Really? That was a very very short appointment. What happened? So we have no strength coach?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

So we have three in the top 58. Are they earning their reputation really?

Digging around that site, which I have never visited before, it looks like an academic/educational type site so if you write lots of papers and give lots of seminars you probably get ranked higher.

No Andrew Russell makes that list somewhat irrelevant for AFL. I got an alert to Tim O'Leary's tweet and didn't even look for Mladen's or Russell's name.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Really? That was a very very short appointment. What happened? So we have no strength coach?

That's why I said we didn't look any bigger early in the year when we were beat up by bigger sides by the time we had been spanked 3 times in the first 5 games.

 

[BrockBlitz]

I don't know any more - just heard that he's no longer around.

 

[OneGreatClub]

I don't know any more - just heard that he's no longer around.

Perhaps perhaps the soft tissue injuries and White's pectoral tear

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Perhaps perhaps the soft tissue injuries and White's pectoral tear

Perhaps you are clutching at straws. The pec injury is just plain rotten luck first one ever by the club at AFL level ie torn off the bone type mot partial tear. He's a strength guy, not groin/hammy over running guy.

 

[Chewy316]

He's still listed (Mladen) as an employee on port's website.
Certainly seems strange, you'd think we'd have heard about it if he had left a while ago. Club must have kept this very discreet.