Michael Moynihan, Web Summit 2014
At a time when there’s a growing fondness for huge volumes of information and statistics – big data – sports scientist Epstein made a passionate plea for focusing on little details, and gave good examples of how doing so can make a huge difference in sporting performance.
Offering the shot putt as an example, he instanced three determinants of performance as release velocity, height of release and angle of release, and pointed to a competitive example where the only difference between the top two performances was one degree in the angle of release: by releasing the shot one degree higher one competitor secured the gold medal.
