minimax rowing has been a mainstay of Australian rowing for several years now. Every national squad uses the technology in training, and its even used in world cup/olympic competition.
Recently national teams &/or institutes of Canada, Spain, Japan and New Zealand have also purchased minimax systems to help their teams prepare. This is in addition to Great Britain Rowing who have been using minimax over the last year.
Rowing has traditionally been a bit of a greenfield for technology. Many rowing crews dont even have reliable ways to measure distance, stroke rate or velocity. minimax of course, goes much further, providing detailed 100Hz velocity traces, video synchronisation, real time data and even information on roll, pitch and yaw of the boat. minimax does this without any cabling or impellers. Its easy to install and remove from boats as needed.
Coming developments for minimax rowing include our new CoachView real time interface to allow rowers and coaches to conveniently view data on their iphone.

Catapult is delighted to welcome several new UK based universities to the minimax community.

Edge Hill University, Central Lancashire University, and Northumbria University have all purchased systems for a variety of applications.

Northumbria have links with Sunderland FC in the English Premier League which is expected to be a major application.

Central Lancashire work with Burnley FC in the EPL also.

Along with Leeds Metropolitan, University of Hull and Teeside University minimax is now developing a very strong user base at the researcher level in the United Kingdom.

“We aim to be a customer driven organisation, taking our research and applications direction from key practitioners”, said Catapult CEO Shaun Holthouse. ” We are delighted to be increasing our user base amongst research organisations who can add such valuable input to our development program”.

3 more AFL clubs have made the change to minimax, bringing the total number of users to 14 out of 17 teams. This makes minimax the dominant athlete tracking technology in the AFL for both training and match day applications and reflects the fact that AFL remains a key market and proving ground for Catapults development team.

Melbourne Football club is one of the oldest football clubs of any code in the world, dating from 1858. Under coach Dean Bailey it is establishing an exciting young list and will use minimax in training and game applications for the coming season.

Read more about Melbourne Football Club

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/

Fremantle Dockers, based in Perth is one of the AFLs newest clubs. Read more about Freo at:

http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/

North Melbourne football club has just appointed a new coach and opened a multimillion dollar training facility. minimax will be an integral part of their preparation for the coming season under high performance director Ray Breed.

http://www.kangaroos.com.au/

“We see the AFL at the forefront of many aspects of sports science and strength & conditioning” said Catapult CEO Shaun Holthouse, “so for us, its both exciting to work with this leading edge of the industry, and very rewarding that the AFL consistently chooses our products as their preferred athlete tracking technology”.

The new AFL franchise, Gold Coast Football Club, based in Queensland Australia has joined the minimax community. With 11 of the 17 AFL teams now using minimax, it has become the dominant athlete tracking product in this progressive market.

Gold Coast will spend 2010 in the VFL competition before becoming a full AFL team in 2011. The GCFC is  a young and exciting football club focused on finding the right mix of age and talent for its list so that it can hit the ground running in 2011.

see http://goldcoastfc.com.au/ for more details on GCFC.