Skiing Naked: Theory of Relativity

In this animation the skier is animated without clothes, once naked we can see the underlying limb movements. It is interesting to see how the skilled skier moves realative to his head this may be closer to the athlete's perception of limb movement than what the video captures. Created by Matthew Brodie with help from Ben Griffin, Rhys Thorp, Alan Walmsley and Wyatt Page and Mt Ruapehu Alpine Lifts in New Zealand. You can find out more about the athlete Ben Griffin at www.bengriffin.co.nz

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ski
• race
• relative
• movments
• naked

[BrodieMAD]

Hi, just to let you know that both New Scientist and Giz Mag have put up articles about this reserach on thier online magazines, good reading. I have also had papers recently published in the Journal of Sports Technology, the Journal of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, and the Journal of Applied Biomechanics if you are looking for more information.

[supersimon21]

What program did you use to make this?

[BrodieMAD]

Hi Simon, THe program to display the data was written in MATLAB. The data from NZ ski athlete, Ben Griffin, was captured using Fusion Motion Capture. GPS, IMUs and pressure insoles were attached to the athlete. For more information see my paper in the first issue of the Journal of Sports Technology published by Wiley and Blackwell.

[lateon5]

hes in the back seat or should i say its in the back seat