How Data & Sports Science can Assist Fast Bowling Coaching & Development (featuring Catapult Sports)

Описание: International fast bowler, Chemar Holder, had major surgery in April this year following a shoulder impingement that had plagued him for a few years.

SpeedCamp was tasked with the mission to rehabilitate him!

I understood very quickly that two things were critical:

1: in order to make this camp a success, we needed to bring Chemar back to his previous best (if not better).

2: in order to avoid this problem from happening again, we needed to take stress away from the upper body and find a more efficient method for him to produce his best performance.

After assessing his bowling technique and breaking down his athletic attributes, we got to work on addressing his weaknesses whilst giving him clear instructions on how to progress through the different stages of his rehab.

In this episode, you can see how we used Catapult Sports technology to capture key performance data which guided us through each session.

We used the GPS data to understand the intensity and efficiency of Chemar’s run up. And we used Catapult’s custom peak rotation algorithm to monitor the amount of upper body strain Chemar was enduring whilst bowling.

Using SpeedCamp’s Three Energy System framework, our primary focus was to rely on Input & Effective Energy whilst holding back on Impact Energy.

We tracked every ball in every session and cross referenced quantitative data with qualitative feedback from Chemar to ensure the entire process was synergistic, efficient and successful.

In my opinion, the art of coaching is balancing the use of data, science and intuition.

This entire process has been a fine example of how impactful data and sports science can be in the role of fast bowling coaching & development.

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