Comments on: Multi-Disciplinary (Performance) Sports Science: The Future of High Performance Sport.

By: Frederick B. Krah

Frederick B. Krah — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:27:10 +0000

I am researching on how to use a interdisciplinary approach to solve a problem of an athlete. I am using the following factors; the athlete is recovery from injury, underperformance, overtraining). The athlete is a male, 24yrs old, long jumper and a student. The athlete is also number 1 in his country but badly perform in international competition.

Regards,

Fred

By: Wayne Goldsmith

Wayne Goldsmith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:30:45 +0000

Thanks guys.

The old “silo” or “faculty” model is going to be a tough one to change but if you read about what’s happening in the broader corporate world, there is a big push against single dimension, single discipline thinking all over the world.

Why can’t sport be the leader in the introduction of a new one of thinking instead of waiting to see what the corporates are doing and then copy it?

Our nature is to be innovative and lead – why can’t we – the sporting industry – be first in this area as well?

By: Ron Smith

Ron Smith — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:27:07 +0000

Interesting article Wayne, at the AIS in the 80′s& 90′s the only research that scientists could undertake had to be performance driven. In most cases the topics were raised by the coaches and unless the Head Coach agreed to any research put forward by the “scientists” it didn’t happen. The other point I would like to make is that “science” lends itself more to some sports than others, e.g. short time individual sports compared with team sports are like chalk and cheese. Regards

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:30:58 +0000

Hi Wayne,

Some really good ideas here.

As someone who got a lot out of doing a PhD combining physiology and psychology, I hope more can be encouraged to do the same.

Cheers,
Michael.