Performance Analysis is a specialist discipline involving systematic observations to enhance performance and improve decision making, primarily delivered through the provision of objective statistical (Data Analysis) and visual feedback (Video Analysis).
What Can Performance Analysis Do in Elite Sport?
Performance Analysis is driven by a sports needs to understand and improve tactics, technique, and movement, achieved through the delivery of real and lapsed time objective feedback. The discipline focuses on enhancing interventions within the coaching process to elicit a performance gain and augment learning.
Essentially informing the athlete and coaches what actually happened as opposed to what they perceive to be happening.
Why is there a Performance Analysis team at the UK Sports Institute (UKSI)?
To achieve repeated success, coaches and athletes must know and understand what they have done to make them successful or unsuccessful and make the right decisions at the right time.
However, research shows that on average, athletes and coaches can only recall 30% of performance correctly. Performance Analysis helps with the remaining 70% by providing the facts of what happened which makes it a vital component for athlete improvement.
The UK Sports Institute Performance Analysis team work closely alongside the coaches and athletes to provide the relevant key performance information that helps objectify the performance. This allows for more evidence-based decisions, augments the experiences and knowledge that they have gained and reduces the speculation to enhance their ability to make the right decisions at the right time.
