The roster of coaches will expand in time, but the first generation of the product includes input from Tony Strudwick, the head of performance for the Football Association of Wales (and formerly in that role at Manchester United) Matt Reeves, the head of fitness and conditioning for Leicester City FC and Chris Barnes, a soccer performance consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the English Premier League.īarnes’ work with Catapult dates back a dozen years to his tenure at Middlesbrough FC where he imported the Australian company’s first 20 devices used in the U.K. SmartCoach draws on the expertise of elite sport scientists and offers advice tuned to a soccer player’s age, gender, position, and training schedule.
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“Very much the hero of PLAYR is the SmartCoach,” Simeray said, “and the SmartCoach is an extension of our sports science knowledge at the professional level for the last 12 years.” Most importantly for the self-directed athlete who does not have the benefit of a coaching staff to help digest the data, Catapult provides training insights through an artificial intelligence program in the app. The app displays heat maps, sprint speeds and distance along with the essential workload metrics of training volume and intensity. PLAYR’s sleek hardware pod slips into a pouch between the shoulder blades of an accompanying vest where the GPS device records up to 1,200 movements per second at an accuracy within one meter (about 3.3 feet). “We had to put the player at the very center of what that system would be.” “When we engineer or manufacture a product at the elite level, we sell to a team, and our main users are the staff-the strength and conditioning, performance or fitness or medical staff,” said Benoit Simeray, CEO of Catapult Sports‘ consumer division. With PLAYR, the wearer is the sole analyst, and game metrics often will take on greater importance. Amateur players typically don’t have the knowledge or resources to make use of advanced information. While developing its new wearable aimed at sub-elite soccer players-called PLAYR and released on Wednesday-Catapult flipped the use case, building a tracker with only the athlete in mind. (Courtesy of Catapult)Ĭatapult’s OptimEye tracking devices are the most widely worn by professional athletes, with data primarily collected during training for use by sport scientists. The device is aimed at sub-elite soccer players.
Catapult released its latest wearable, PLAYR, on Wednesday.
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