Mr J HARDING - AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT
Expertise
- Sport science research and athlete support for elite-level half-pipe snowboarding, snowboard boarder-cross, surfing, skate-boarding and freestyle skiing.
- Practical application of micro-technology based feedback systems to enhance athletic performance in elite half-pipe snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding and freestyle skiing.
- Assisting current subjective judging protocols utilised within surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and skiing competition using micro-technology based objective feedback.
- Sociological impact of integrating innovative technological systems focussed on objectivity into sports with a history of subjective performance assessment.
- Strength and conditioning programs focussed upon enhancing athletic performance in youth orientated extreme sports.
- Calibration of laboratory and in-field athletic performance monitoring equipment.
- Innovative elite-level competition events management.
- Freelance photographer and writer for the surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding community.
- Strong interest in the political environment of Australia’s national and state sporting institutes
Current Projects
- Development of an objective feedback system focussed on objective and relevant information associated with surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and freestyle skiing.
- Physiological demands placed on elite-level athletes during competitive half-pipe snowboarding and freestyle skiing and the relationship to performance.
- Innovative competition formats and judging protocols associated with competitive half-pipe snowboarding and freestyle skiing.
- Enhancing start performance in snowboard boarder-cross racing.
- Assessing community perception to technological innovation in half-pipe snowboarding.
Past Projects
- ‘Automated Inertial Feedback For Half-Pipe Snowboard Competition And The Community Perception’
- ‘Feature Extraction of Performance Variables in Elite Half-Pipe Snowboarding Using Body Mounted Inertial Sensors’
- ‘Classification of Aerial Acrobatics in Elite Half-Pipe Snowboarding Using Body Mounted Inertial Sensors’
- ‘Technology and Half-Pipe Snowboard Competition - Insight From Elite-Level Judges’
- ‘AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge’. An innovative concept snowboarding competition that integrated micro-technology based objective feedback into the performance assessment method.
- ‘A constant temperature system for physiological measurements in cold environmental conditions’
- ‘The reliability associated with laboratory measurements of specific blood parameters’
- 'Effects of an intensive six-week training and competition period on neutrophil oxidative capacity, and soluble transferrin receptor concentration in male athletes'
Contact Details
7 Ada Street
VINCENTIA NSW
AUSTRALIA 2540
Telephone: +61 2 6214 1126
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E-Mail: AnarchistAthlete@gmail.com
WWW: www.AnarchistAthlete.com