Sports Innovation, Technology and Research

The following sections are included:

• Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Innovation in Rio Tinto

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• PART 1: Upper Limb
• PART 2: Lower Limb

The Olympic Games is considered to be the ultimate international sporting event, where elite athletes across the globe compete, and the margins between success and failure have become increasingly small. In the UK, rowing has over the years been one of our most successful sports with medal success and world rankings increasing significantly in the last decade. The recent success at the London 2012 games also saw a rise in participation in the sport with over 32,000 people signing up for rowing courses in the UK and 1,000 new applicants to GB Rowing's START talent ID programme which is seen as a gateway to elite performance…

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Mass and MOI
• The COR
• The COP
• Vibrational Properties
• Cricket Bats
• Modelling
• Materials and Methods
• Experimental Protocol
• Modelling
• Statistical Analysis
• Results
• Forearm Acceleration
• Modelling
• Discussion
• Hand–Arm Vibration Analysis
• Modelling
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

Ankle sprain injury is very common in sports. Without proper care, an ankle sprained for five or more times can be more prone to chronic ankle instability. In severe condition, it may lead to articular cartilage defect, early joint osteoarthritis and deformity, which may ultimately need surgical treatment to reconstruct, or to replace with an artificial joint. Besides research on the treatment and rehabilitation, it is also worth conducting research on its prevention. Sports biomechanists can contribute in injury prevention, by analysing injury aetiology and mechanism, designing preventive intervention, and evaluating the effectiveness in a biomechanics laboratory [1]. Since 2004, I and my research team (Figure 4.1) in the Sport Performance and Biomechanics Laboratory at Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong had been investigating and preventing sport-related ankle ligamentous sprain injury…

There is a need to provide an energy absorbing material which is lightweight, flexible and comfortable to wear whilst still being able to dissipate and absorb shock loads applied to it, providing Active sports protection…

Of the 400 Australian athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, 64% came from a Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) background. This included runners, swimmers, and the gold medal winning Men's K4 Kayaking team. We know that innovation and elite level success in Australian sport has been dependent in part on the serendipitous development of 'sporting ecologies' such as the one that produced this success, SLSA working in partnership with organisations such as the Australian Canoeing High performance Unit and the Australian Canoeing National Elite Development Program which works to identify Canoeing and Kayaking talent through programs such as The Next Wave pathway for young paddlers emerging out of the competitive SLSA networks…

Over the past nine years, the Innovation Design Engineering masters programme at the Royal College of Art & Imperial College London has developed the GoGlobal project; a series of cross-cultural educational collaborations with a diverse range of partners in China, Thailand, Ghana, India, Korea, and Japan. During this period, we have developed a diverse range of themes that have varied from product urbanisation to post-consumerism, massclusivity (see Anderson [1]), rural urban migration and the future of food. In 2013, in our search for new challenges and innovation spaces, we developed a partnership with the University of Technology in Sydney to bring together a group of 70+ students for an intensive one month project involving the designing, making, testing and proving of sporting innovations in a range of scales and contexts: from body equipment to stadiums, and interventions operating at the scale of the individual to major infrastructure investments in the city…

The following sections are included:

• ARC
• Prescient
• Urban Racer
• Trajectile
• Portal
• HYDRA
• Pelicam
• Rip On
• Billion
• Jiwa
• Pose
• Pace
• Aura

The undergraduate students of the Bioengineering department at Imperial College have a compulsory module in the second year of their degree known as the Engineering Design Projects course. These projects also form part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge and are conducted in large groups of 10–12 students. Students are given a focused project brief and work alongside elite athletes and governing bodies for disabled sports…

The undergraduate students in the engineering departments at Imperial College also complete a solo or small group project in the third and fourth years of their degree for which they can choose their own topic. They are given a selection of projects from which to choose that can be part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge, ranging in scope from completely open to a tightly-defined brief…

Development of Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge projects continues during the summer months through multiple avenues. Imperial College has a scheme known as the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) which provides for students to spend time in an academic research environment during the summer vacation period. These placements are used to enable students to develop selected RTSIC projects further and refine prototypes to a higher level of function and detail…

The following sections are included:

• Index of Poems
• Index of Contributors
• Index of Subjects