Observing and analysing performance - AQAIdentifying strengths and areas for improvement
To help athletes to improve, coaches and performers need to observe and analyse athletes’ movements during performance. They use this data to monitor progress and provide effective feedback.
Video analysis helps coaches and performers to identify the strengths and areas for improvement of an athlete's performance. Typically, video analysis software supports playback, slow motion and simultaneous examples, of your own or exemplary performances, and it helps to provide accurate feedback. Video analysis can also use simple video or stills camera.
By focusing on movement phases, video analysis can be used to look at the athlete's skill and/or fitness. To consider which aspects of skill and fitness to focus on see Evaluating performance.
Data collection and analysis
Video can be used to create and gather data that helps to analyse individual performances. Linked to computer software, this data can be presented in a variety of ways to identify areas for improvement, to provide feedback and to monitor progress over time.