About

Welcome to Gee Vee Sport Science and Analysis.

I’ve been involved in high performance sport since 2012. I recently gained my PhD in Skill Acquisition, focusing on how athletes make decisions using anticipatory sources. Now I know PhDs tend to be pretty specific in their topics, and that’s certainly true, but in my case, it’s only driven a passion for gaining new knowledge in sport science and sports performance.

Show me any sort of competition with a ball, some lines on a field, pitch or court, and a score card, and I’m immediately invested in figuring out why the winners win and the losers lose. But sport science and performance analysis isn’t as easy as 2 + 2 = 4. There’s way more to unravel than meets the eye.

There’s so many areas of sport science that have been studied by so many well-respected researchers and practitioners. This has only led to even more questions being asked, that we still don’t know the answer to. That’s what makes it so exciting. My aim for this blog is to look into some of these common topics and address them in relation to the four pillars of sport science (physical, technical, tactical, mental) and then explain how this sits within the context of the demands of different sports.

Why do stats from a footy game not always suggest that the winner should have been the winner? Will we ever get to the point where we can prevent 100% of injuries in sport? What are the differences between the game styles of male and female football competitions? Does having a bad technique mean an athlete will never be the best?

If you want to know more about these questions as much as I do, then read on.

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