It's not perfect but the official release of TrackMotion is here.
Would love your feedback over the next few weeks. I'm a full time teacher but I'll work on bugs & new features as much as I can! Already 100+ Hours into the project, a few more can't hurt.
Been working on TrackMotion iOS for ~4 months trying to get it perfect, but perfection is impossible!
Going to take the plunge & release it this week. Still plenty of features to be added.
For now it should be a great block start assistant! Excited to see what you think!
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Testing out a new app I'm coding to help coaches see block angles live at practice. Lots of other applications for this as well. What features would you want to see? I have 2 so far.
1) Red/Yellow/Green based on 90/120, still needs to be tuned a little ...
Strongly encourage anyone who frequently does wickets to apply electrical tape to their tape measure for their commonly used spacings. Super happy with mine!
For those that ask about the wicket (saucer cone) system I learned from
@ByrdSportsPF
and how I set it up with 20-50 kids at a time. I set up fly 10 lanes on the track with 5-6 cones in each lane starting before, and ending just after, the zone.
Been working on TrackMotion iOS for ~4 months trying to get it perfect, but perfection is impossible!
Going to take the plunge & release it this week. Still plenty of features to be added.
For now it should be a great block start assistant! Excited to see what you think!
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Got a few DMs asking, so here's my starting wicket spacings based on 100m current fitness.
They aren't perfect but get us most of the way there & we make adjustments based on how the athletes look.
With a big team we normally group by ~3 inches or ~.5 sec.
@SprintersCompen
Testing out a new app I'm coding to help coaches see block angles live at practice. Lots of other applications for this as well. What features would you want to see? I have 2 so far.
1) Red/Yellow/Green based on 90/120, still needs to be tuned a little ...
Wanted to give the guys a chance to feel the turns of an "indoor track". Here is our turf setup.
Basically just 2 semi circles ~50 yards apart.
You go to the center of your circle and use a tape measurer to get a radius of 17.2m, then just drop cones around the circle!
What do you do when you have a meet on a 200m flat, but not a similar facility to practice those curves on? Get creative and measure out as much distance as you can of the indoor radius on your outdoor track.
Episcopal Academy Boys Track are InterAc Champions for the first time in 42 years!!!!! So proud of these boys. They did it as brothers and as a family.
#Team0
@EA_Athletics
@EABoysTrack
Got my first chance of testing this with
@ForbesSaige
yesterday.
Think I'm going to implement a feature where it can replay the start for you, so you can easily rewatch it!
Thanks for the feedback so far! TrackMotion IOS should be available by the end of this month!
Happy to release the beta of my app today & excited to get your feedback!
TrackMotion:
Goal of this app was to help coaches & athletes have a little more data while at the track in a simple and easy to use package. Plus I learned Kotlin!
#LifeLongLearner
Testing out a new feature in TrackMotion that lets you have more control over the colors and what lines are drawn. Think there are a lot of applications for field events here.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
EA Boys Track is still interviewing for an Assistant Track Coach. Help is needed in the Sprints Hurdles and/or Jumps.
State Championship Caliber program with athletes qualified in 10 out of 16 events.
Great kids, Great Coaches, and Amazing Facilities.
Our team tried the 24 second drill yesterday. There was definitely some carnage afterwards.
Out of 20 guys yesterday: 6 guys over 190m and 11 over 185
@abaashunterr
with the 208
Fantastic weekend at the Penn Relays. 4x100 School Record and got 5th in the Northeast Final. 4x400 won the Inter-Ac race and got 3rd in the Philly Final. Excited to see championship season bring out the best in us.
@EA1785_BTrack
@EA1785_Athletic
@PennTrackXC
It's been a long year for
@EA1785_BTrack
but I couldn't be prouder of this group:
- XC Nationals NXN Qualifiers
- PA Indoors State Champs
- Delco County Champs
- Inter Ac Conference Champs
- PAISAA State Champs
Thanks to our captains
@DakinEbmeyer
@KianAli23
@mchugh_ace
Now I've had a 47 Foot Jumper. Big PR last night.
@dk_yaya
with the US
#9
and US
#1
for Class of 2025.
He got much better with cycling his leg higher in the hop. Need to work on "no penultimate" and some more patience through the air in the step. What else do you see?
Was not expecting this tweet to blow up but for anyone else interested in doing this, make sure you use an "open" tape measure as "closed" ones are likely to jam with the extra tape.
Much of Sprinting is working on Force Application, but it's important for athletes to be able to experiment with it outside of running.
Extended the cones out a little today. Cueing toes up on this drill and we can see varying levels of success as we the increased difficulty.
ALTIS puts out soooo much good stuff but this is probably the most helpful video I've seen from
@StuartMcMillan1
this year.
Definitely, a must-watch if you dribble or rudiment regularly (and if you don't you should be).
🎓HOW TO TEACH & CUE DRIBBLES & RUDIMENT🎓
👀 Watch Coach Stu McMillan teach and progress the ALTIS MJ Rudiment & Dribbles Series to Masters Athlete in this FREE 30-min video.
🌐
#Speed
#coaching
Got into the NCTA Cybersecurity grad program (fully funded) and into the
@ALTIS
mentorship program with
@PfaffSC
all within 24 hours. Very excited to take my career to the next level in the classroom and on the track!
Insane performance from this young man, One Official School record and two more that would've been school records if we didn't already break them earlier this year. Plus winning triple jump on his last jump. Definitely the MVP of our event group.
@KhiRodgers
250 boys in the school but likely one of the most complete teams in the country this indoor season.
7:48 4x800
1:52 800
47-11.5 TJ (11th Grade)
6-07 HJ (11th Grade)
59-8 SP
3:22 4x400 (3rd race of the day)
21.71 200 (10th grade)
49.10 400 (10th grade)
Really proud of what
@EA1785_BTrack
accomplished this year.
- 7 School Records
- 39 Top 10 All Time Marks
- State Record (200m 10th Grade, 21.71)
- US
#1
Mark (C/O 25' / 47-11.5 TJ)
- US
#2
4x800 (7:48)
- Scored in 8 of our 9 Events at States
- Back to Back PA State Champions
🧵 1/3 Took me about an hour to make my first Kinogram. Definitely have some postural work to do with this athlete but this explains some of our injury issues.
Loving the mentorship from
@ALTIS
and
@PfaffSC
this summer.
I hate the idea of promoting my own product and cluttering others feeds but gotta pay for the wedding somehow 🤣
App Store:
The price will be going up to $14.99 on Friday. Get it now before the increase!
Testing out a new feature in TrackMotion that lets you have more control over the colors and what lines are drawn. Think there are a lot of applications for field events here.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
So proud of these boys. Delco Overall Team Champs for the first time!!! 31 Points better than 2nd Place.
They've worked so hard for so long and they finally got to show up.
Shout out
@AidenChavis
for the video.
#Team42
@EABoysTrack
@EA_Athletics
One, two, three, four, FIVE US Number One times on the day!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Episcopal Academy runs 10:35.51 in the DMR to close out the 2022 Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival
🔹Aidan McHugh
🔹Marcus Childs
🔹Dakin Ebmeyer
🔹Michael Woolery
Super grateful to have been invited onto the podcast & share my journey.
Still so much to learn but just trying to get a little bit better each & everyday.
Thanks to everyone who has helped me on my journey but in particular
@PfaffSC
@kebbat
@JaHughes_5
@brianruggles
@ALTIS
Super excited to welcome the wise the wonderful
@EACoachDavis
to the podcast this week!
Not only is this self-professed 'data and numbers guy' doing a great job as an assistant coach at Episcopal Academy, he's also using his computer science background to help the track coaching
As a small school it can be hard to compete at the State level but I'm so proud of our boys and their incredible season. 7 school records and second at the State championships!!!
PTFCA Indoor State T&F Championship 2022- Episcopal Academy Boys earned the 2nd place Team Championship Award with 33 points. Congratulations! …more great stuff coming all week so stay tuned
#phillysportsdigest
#pattymorganphotography
At Ocean Breeze Invitational today, Michael Woolery ran 1:56 in the 800 for 🥉, AJ Koukou also secured a 🥉 in shot put, and YaYa Johnson (pictured below) jumped his way to 1st in both high and triple! 🥇 x2 and 💎 x2!
@EA1785_Athletic
Shoutout again to Jim for leading
@EA1785_BXC
to a great win at Paul Short. 16th Fastest Team average in the country. 4 Unsigned Upperclassmen in our top 5.
Here's Jim's interview from
@PennTrackXC
Props to Woody Kincaid. He took a big fall right as the race broke open (right around 6 minutes in). He had to close super hard all on his own and it looks like he ended up just out of qualifying. That's gotta be a successful appeal.
With our regular season over,
@MichaelWoolery4
traveled all the way to Alabama for some national-caliber competition.
He ran a new school record of 1:51.54, PA
#1
800 and PA
#10
All-Time for Juniors.
@PennTrackXC
Wanted to share a Auto-Kinogram Maker that one of my students built for Windows computers.
Makes film review wayyy easier.
@ttesc255
wanted it to be available for FREE to coaches but please send feedback!
@MikeCunningham
@ALTIS
@RaesTake
@CoachJTAyers
Big fan of Gabby Thomas and know she's gonna do great things in the future. Thanks for taking a moment to talk to media after such a tough moment
@ItsGabrielleT
, showing younger athletes it's okay to be emotional but that you can refocus after a tough day.
“When your body is doing things that it’s never done before, you’re at risk. That’s where I was headed. My aspirations were so high. I wanted to be the world champion and I was training for that.” –
@ItsGabrielleT
had a grade 2 hamstring tear two weeks ago in practice
Really proud of what
@EA1785_BTrack
accomplished this year.
- 7 School Records
- 39 Top 10 All Time Marks
- State Record (200m 10th Grade, 21.71)
- US
#1
Mark (C/O 25' / 47-11.5 TJ)
- US
#2
4x800 (7:48)
- Scored in 8 of our 9 Events at States
- Back to Back PA State Champions
Comparing the PA State Meet Entries from 2022 - 2023
Looks like last year we were still overcoming training deficits from the pandemic & entries are more competitive across the board this year.
@JohnDavern6
@CoachNixonTF
*Places are just where they are on milesplit rankings
Better than before for sure.
Would love to see the shin angles a little closer together and the hips a little higher.
TrackMotion is still a work in progress but it’ll be released next week on iOS!
Block set up with some minor adjustments. This set up Ian particularly based on athlete leg length.
@EACoachDavis
what you got on this one compared to other one you did.
Kid jumps 45 in Triple, and then immediately walks over and clears 6-06 on his first attempt. We weren't able to get 6-08 but on fresh legs it's definitely there.
Hard to juggle these two at the same time but that's the order at states so it was good practice!
Freshman, Abaas Hunter, with his first medal of his EA track career! He runs 22.99 in the 200m to earn a 🥇! His time is a new indoor school record!
@EA1785_Athletic
We are really struggling to figure out how to get him to fully rotate his body perpendicular over the bar. (Pause at the top and you'll see his quads are pointed towards the camera)
We definitely need to be more patient before we start to arch. Any other tips?
Experimenting with a new Pogo Variation. Athletes are cued to land dorsiflexed and really work on reactive force application.
Two sets of cones for each group:
- Long Spacing is set to ~Ideal Stride Length -> Goal is Projection
- Short Spacing is 64% of Long -> Goal is Height
In case you're curious what it took to get into the PA Indoor State Championships this year.
What do you think is the deepest event this year? So many good events but Hurdles and 800 were MOVING this year.
@PennTrackXC
Couldn't be more proud of this group, a complete team won, as a brotherhood and a family. So happy for our seniors. Special congrats to Coach Greenwood, winning in his last year at EA!!!
Really proud of the team's mentality this winter. The varsity 4x200, 4x400, 4x800 & DMR are all undefeated.
We are really looking forward to putting up some fast times over the next few weeks and seeing what we can do as a team!
@EA1785_BTrack
@PennTrackXC
@EA1785_Athletic
We are new to the game but excited to race at NB Indoor Nationals tomorrow with so many coaches I've been following and learning from over the past few years.
Always another learning experience!
So proud of these boys, it's time to put our name on the map!
@EA1785_BTrack
Last night we lost our undefeated streak, finishing second to an excellent CB West team, but I'm so proud of how we competed. We qualified for states, nationals, and Penn Relays. The boys took away some good lessons and it's only going to make us better moving forward!
Students often ask me why I got into teaching Computer Science instead of working in tech. I give them my honest answer:
"I'm afraid of being forgotten, I want to be remembered. I want to help change the world."
Emails like this make all the long stressful days worth it.
Last post from last night but maybe the one I'm most proud of in
@brendan_schlitt
. He's always loved high jump but could never get past 5-08. It's been a long time coming but we're finally putting it together.
5-11 Clearance with some really close misses at 6-01
Round two of Computer Vision Tracking. Added Colors to make it easier to track individual limbs.
Would love some feedback, what additional data would be useful?
Athlete:
@Ijaaz_A
NATIONAL RANKINGS: The Episcopal Academy Boys jumped into the National Rankings for the first time ever (We believe).
North Allegheny girls return to the Top-25 this week.