GPS Helps Athletes Who Bang into One Another
I run marathons. I train using a GPS. It’s great.
Now, for those who prefer more aggressive sports comes news that GPS is helping make those sports safer. GPSs carried on rugby and soccer players that track speed and acceleration show that players are going faster and slamming into each other with significant force. How to reduce injuries?
Training now needed to be targeted to mimic the actions players needed to perform during games and, in some cases, the rules also needed to be changed to slow them down.
“It reinforces to us the link between slowing the game down and slowing players down and reducing the chance of acute injuries during that game, particularly high speed collision injuries,” he [Professor Kevin Norton of sports educational institution Sports Knowledge Australia] said.
The results of Norton’s study will be shared at a seminar in Sydney this week.
