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Advantage Play: Technologies That Changed Sporting History
[Hardback - 2018]
steve haake
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Publisher: Arena Sport | ISBN: 9781909715592 | Pages: 320
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Advantage Play tells the dramatic stories of the key technological breakthroughs in four thousand years of sporting history used to gain an advantage in sport. Novel materials are never far away: rubber for rugby and tennis balls, carbon fibre for bikes and prosthetics, polyurethane for swimsuits. Breakthroughs crop up throughout history, not just for modern football boots but for the javelin of the ancient Greeks and even the original starting line at Olympia. Our obsession with sporting data is not new although our methods of collecting it is: phones, sensors and monitors.



Together, these breakthroughs reveal that the way we design sports equipment has always been much the same. Rather than being a new thing, sports technology is actually as old as civilisation.



Where will it all end? All current track and field events at the modern Olympic Games will reach their limit within a generation. With his 30 years as a sports engineer, Steve Haake shows that in a world where top performances are static, where we ve found all the best athletes and deployed the best coaching methods, the one thing that might distinguish the winners from the losers is new technology.

About the Author

Steve Haake has a first-class degree in physics from the University of Leeds and a PhD from the University of Aston, sponsored by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He has published six books, authored over 150 journal papers on the physics and engineering of sport, and written articles for the New Scientist, Physics World, Ingenia and the Times Higher Education. He is currently the director of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.

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