 Poster: A snowHead
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Interesting TV pictures on the BBC now showing the Dorfmeister's and Alcott's run superimposed onto the same video footage. Shows just how close the racers are, and how little mistakes makes the difference between winning and losing. Wish that more use was made of that technology on the World Cup circuit, it would help with the TV coverage immensely.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar.org.uk, missed that, did Chemmy lose most time on that final section?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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rob@rar.org.uk,
the crazy thing is the software to do this is not expensive, one version called dartfish is used by the BBC and the basic version costs around £350, i use this for video analysis for runners and skiers in the clinic. even the expensive all singing all dancing version is less than £2000 (i assume the BBC have this version) so do not know why as you say they do not make better use of it.
great peice of software by the way 
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We get so little good analysis on TV for any sport. Just commentators telling you things that a half-wit would have worked out for themselves.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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CEM, Graham Bell said that it was regularly used in training by different skis camps. I also don't understand why it isn't used more often - it gives a terrific insight into why some skiers are fast and why others aren't.
PG, yes, there was one small jump which Chemmy didn't flatten very well, and consequently she took a different line into the next corner compared to Dorfmeister. Chemmy didn't lose any time over the jump, but the different line meant she was much slower out of the corner and into the next one. Up until the jump she was very close to Dorfmeister.
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DavidS,
oh you mean lines like......he needs to get back into the tuck, he took quite a bit of air on that one, he has lost a lot of time on that turn (as the clock shows a masive deficite) etc etc. or the classic he really will have to go for it to take the lead 
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