Technology a big boon to hockey
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has engaged SportsMechanics – a Chennai-based sports technology company dedicated to providing high-performance solutions to teams & players.
Since 2003, SportsMechanics have been the analysts of the Indian Cricket team and have been part of many success stories.
Being the most experienced Indian company in this sphere, is now contributing to Indian success in other sports as well.
In the recently concluded Hockey Olympic Qualifiers where the Men’s team cruised through, SportsMechanics were involved in providing in-depth analysis to the teams about their own players and also on opposition teams.
Complex data models & trends using video technology are used to derive strategies of our own and counter opponent’s strategies.
Michael Nobbs, the head coach of the Men’s team, says that they have been “an integral part of the team” and “have been critical to devising game plans during the Olympic Qualifiers”.
Assistant coach Mohd. Riaz feels that “the efficiency of the team improved drastically due to the intelligence provided by SportsMechanics and that the reports provided were very useful to read into the game’’.
CR Kumar, the head coach of the Indian Women’s team which narrowly missed the qualification spot to South Africa, feels that “this helps his team visualize all the plans and what they need to execute on the field”.
Sandeep Singh, the prolific drag-flicker whose goal scoring skills were a highlight during this campaign said “just like we do the hard work on the field, the analysts do the hard work off the field. They help me in identifying some key aspects about the opponents that help me in exploiting and scoring more goals for the country”.
With SportsMechanics providing such quality inputs to the Hockey teams, we can expect their performance to become more consistent and bring more laurels to our country.
In addition to Hockey, they are engaged by SAI to provide such analytics to many more contingents representing our country in London 2012.