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Download all articles focussed on boardriding performance from this website as PDF files [...]  

You can download all articles focussed on boardriding performance found in this website as PDF files.  Currently there are six articles available for download.  These articles focus on snowboarding performance, tech. based performance assessment, and the community’s perception of these ideas.  Find em all on the ARTICLES page.  Two of these artciles deal directly with the development of innovative terchnology and computer software that allows the automatic calculation of air-time and degree of rotation associated with half-pipe snowboarding.  There is a groundbreaking article focused on the actual integration of this technology into elite-level half-pipe snowboarding, detailing a concept competition (AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge) and the capcity of technology to objectively assess performance.   Additionally there are three articles that focus specifically on the potential sociological impact of integrating novel technological concepts into the elite-level snowboard competition arena, allowing the snowboard community to voice their opion on the concept. 

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Below is a complete list of all the articles focussed on boardriding performance you can download from www.AnarchistAthlete.com

1. Harding JW, Toohey K, Martin DT, Mackintosh CG, Lindh AM, James DA. (2007) Automated Inertial Feedback For Half-Pipe Snowboard Competition And The Community Perception. In The Impact of Technology on Sport II, Fuss F. K., Subic A., Ujihashi S. Taylor & Francis London., 20, 845 – 850. Read Abstract

2. Harding JW, Small JW, James DA. (2007) Feature Extraction of Performance Variables in Elite Half-Pipe Snowboarding Using Body Mounted Inertial Sensors. In BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III, edited by Dan V. Nicolau, Derek Abbott, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Tiziana Di Matteo, Sergey M. Bezrukov, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6799 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2007) 679917. Read Abstract

3. Harding JW, Mackintosh CG, Hahn AG, James DA. (2008) Classification of Aerial Acrobatics in Elite Half-Pipe Snowboarding Using Body Mounted Inertial Sensors. In The Engineering of Sport 7, Estivalet, M., Brisson, P. Springer-Verlag France., Vol. 2, 447 – 456. Read Abstract

4. Harding JW, Toohey K, Martin DT, Hahn AG, James DA. (2008) Technology and Half-Pipe Snowboard Competition – Insight From Elite-Level Judges. In The Engineering of Sport 7, Estivalet, M., Brisson, P. Springer-Verlag France., Vol. 2, 467 – 476. Read Abstract

5. Harding JW, Mackintosh CG, Martin DT, Hahn AG, James DA. Automated Scoring for Elite Half-PIpe Snowboard Competition – Important Sporting Development or Techno Distraction? Sports Technology 2008; 1 (6), 277 – 290. Read Abstract

6. Harding JW, James DA. Fusion of Technological Objectivity into the Underlying Anarchy of Elite Snowboarding – Insights from the Australian National Snowboard Coach. Sports Technology 2008; 1 (6), 239 – 248. Read Abstract

Australian professional snowboarder Nate Johnstone (left) is awarded 1st place for the highest individual air time in the AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge by sport science consultant and Anarchist Athlete founder Jason Harding (right). Image © www.AnarchistAthlete.com

An article focused on a tech judging concept and its role in snowboard competition judging is available now [...] 

An article focused on a tech judging concept and its role in snowboaard competition judging is available now.  The article has been recently published by a new journal titled ‘Sports Technology’.  You can therefore access the article on the Sports Technology Website or alternatively you can read and download the PDF version of this article at AnarchistAthlete.  This article is an academic publication associated with the AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge held at Perisher Blue in 2007.  The AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge was a concept half-pipe snowboarding competition that trialled a form of technologically based automated judging. 

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Article Title

Harding JW, Mackintosh CG, Martin DT, Hahn AG, James DA.  Automated Scoring for Elite Half-Pipe Snowboard Competition – Important Sporting Development or Techno Distraction?  Sports Technology 2008; 1 (6), 277-290.

Article Abstract

The authors have previously reported a strong relationship between video based objective data (air-time and degree of rotation) and subjectively judged scores awarded during elite half-pipe snowboard competition. Advancements in sports monitoring technologies now provide the capacity to accurately and automatically quantify this objective information. This may assist current subjective coaching and competition judging protocols provided the integration process imparts a large element of control to key players within the sport. The authors therefore recently hosted an invitational half-pipe snowboard competition (2007 Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge) designed to evaluate whether the snowboard community would embrace a competition where results were in part determined by automated objectivity, explore the practical, logistical and technical challenges associated with conducting such an event and evaluate the relationship between subjective judging and results predicted from objective information to see if prior research had ecological validity. Ten elite male half-pipe snowboarders were instrumented with inertial sensors throughout this competition. A prediction equation using previously established weightings of average air-time and average degree of rotation accounted for 74% of the shared variance in subjectively judged scores awarded during this competition. Although our predictions of overall scores and rankings were good there was still 26% of the total variance unexplained. This should not be considered a weakness of this approach but a strength as the subjective components of style and execution should never be removed from the sport. The future of half-pipe snowboarding however may be best guided a judging protocol that incorporates both objective and subjective criteria. Read Full Article