performance assessment innovations for elite snowboarding新.pdf

Procedia Engineering Procedia Engineering 2 (2010) 2919–2924 Procedia Engineering 00 (2009) 000000 /locate/procedia /locate/procedia th 8 Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) Performance Assessment Innovations for Elite Snowboarding Jason William Harding1,2,3* and Daniel Arthur James3,4 1Department of Physiology, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra ACT 2616, Australia 2Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, Melbourne VIC 3205, Australia 3Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD 4111, Australia 4Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport, Brisbane QLD 4111, Australia Received 31 January 2010; revised 7 March 2010; accepted 21 March 2010 Abstract This paper provides a review of objective performance assessment in elite half-pipe snowboarding. Half-pipe snowboarding is currently coached and judged in competition using subjective measures. Like other sports that rely on subjectivity however, the methodology underpinning how coaches assess athletic progression and judges score performance is open for debate. This paper focuses on technology