TID!

Volunteered to help out in the testing for the Australian Sports Commission (ASC)'s Talent Identification and Development (TID) program... Got to school at 10 and spent around 4 hours with the testing... There were a total of 6 subjects and 6 testers! =x

Su spinning the hygrometer as we try to get a measurement of the relative humidity... The hygrometer consist of 2 bulbs, the wet and the dry bulb. The temperature of the wet bulb drops due to evaporation. The difference between the temperature on the 2 bulb gives a measurement of relative humidity... Of course we also have an electronic one... But it's more fun spinning an analog 1... =x

Measurement tape on pole... If you want to be fancy... You can call them stadiometer... Used here to get sitting and standing height...

Weighing scale... I think you use it to get the weight of subjects... =x

Trying out the bench pull here... This test is a measurement of muscular endurance for the upper body... Did 11 of those at 40kg... The highest recorded for the day is 18... =/

Yardstick... Why are they called yardstick? This appartus is used for measuring vertical jump height... This test is a measurement of explosive power...

Speedlight set up for 40m sprint... 4 gates with timing at 10, 20 and 40 metres splits... I kinda like setting up these speedlights... This is of course a measurement of speed...

Speedlight time measurement device... Daul-beam system reduces false start by requiring that subject breaks both beams for a timing measurement... Boring... =x

The testing also involved a measurement of armspan and a bleep/beep/multi stage shuttle run test... The multi stage shuttle run test is a test of endurance... And is of course famous in Singapore for being THE test used by professional players in the Sleague... A min of 13.1 (which I think is pretty reasonable...) must be achieved before they can play in the Sleague...

The famous story with the TID program is that ASC put together an Olympic gold medal winning rowing team based on results from those simple test! They selected individuals who have potential for the sport, trained them, and released them at the Olympic (so violent! =x)... The rest is golden history...

Porn for Olympic weightlifters... 3 platforms for Olympic style weight lifting and other exercises... And a whole lots of weights too!

Porn for people interested in Sports Science... Pneumatic weight training system... So instead of having to move big weight plates... Just step on the weight adjustment lever and the weight will change accordingly... Wicked! But feels weird when I'm actually using it... Give me the Olympic bar anytime!