Technological Advancement: New Player in the World of Sports

Thanks to the chip in tennis racket coaches know exact instantaneous speed of the shot. In volleyball, the chip in the shoes can detected a decrease of player’s physical strength by measuring the height of player’s vertical jump. Sport psychologists can immediately recognize whether the player is ready for the match, whether the team is not overly motivated, or whether they are afraid of the opponent more than they should be. All of this is what professional sport looks like in 21st century.

According to experts on physical performance sportspeople reached the very limits of potential lying in human body. For a better performance of sportsmen the coaches are more than ever before looking for new technological possibilities. A deeper insight into the mind of sportsmen by means of modern technology is becoming very popular and trendy today. SportMind Solution works with unconscious parts of human experience and thus clarifies their feelings not only to the sportsmen themselves, but also to the coaches and psychologists and enables them all to address the problem and work with it in long or short time perspective.
SportiMind develops and deepens this world trend by frequent cooperation with sport psychologists and psychodiagnostic tools. We can already observe this phenomenon in all developed countries in the world and more and more in the Western Europe. Psychologists agree on the fact that improvement of one’s sport performance lies in the head. In the Czech Republic, tennis player Petra Kvitová or snowboarder Eva Samková openly talk about their psychological preparation.

SportiMind psychodiagnostics is already being used by many professional sportspeople, e.g. Russian hockey club Sakhalin, Polish volleyball team SKRA Bełchatów or Czech handball team HC Zubří. „Psychological preparation became one of the cornerstones leading men’s national street hockey team to win bronze medals at World Championship 2011 at Bratislava,” agree the coaches of Slovakian men’s national team Roman Török a Ľubomír Liška.