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Rowing Performance Analysis

The most versatile system to track rowing

How does performance analysis work in rowing?

Archinisis' cutting-edge sensor technology and intelligent algorithms transform rowing performance analysis, offering a comprehensive suite of insights with minimal setup. By simply attaching a compact sensor to your boat, you gain access to a wealth of real-time and post-session data, including stroke rate, boat speed, and efficiency metrics, all seamlessly analyzed and presented to optimize your performance on the water.

Our system goes beyond basic metrics, providing in-depth analysis of acceleration patterns, automatic detection of relevant rowing segments, and even comparisons across different crews and sessions. Whether you're a national team or a high-performance university program, Archinisis' rowing performance analysis tool adapts to your needs, offering actionable insights that can make the difference between victory and defeat in this highly competitive sport.

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Types of Analyses for Rowing

Screenshot of an example smart segmentation

Our innovative smart segmentation technology automatically identifies and isolates the most relevant parts of your rowing session, eliminating the need to manually sift through warm-up and cool-down data. This automated process ensures that you focus solely on the crucial performance segments, streamlining your analysis workflow. For even more comprehensive insights, you can easily mark specific segments for detailed examination and enhance your statistical analyses by inputting weather and water conditions or selecting crew information, all within our user-friendly interface.

Screenshot of the segment overview

Users can easily assign measurements to specific boat classes, enabling our system to calculate accurate prognostics and adapt to buoyed or free-line rowing. It provides comprehensive segment overviews, including prognostics, splits, distance, and other key stroke parameters, enabling quick comparisons of crew performances and facilitating data-driven decision-making for coaches and athletes.

Screenshot of part of the stroke performance parameter plots

Our system automatically detects the start of each stroke, calculating key parameters like stroke rate, speed, distance per stroke, and efficiency metrics. These are visually presented in six plots, with stroke rate as a background reference and color-coding based on distance covered, allowing for quick identification of performance trends and potential fatigue effects over time.

Screenshot of the stroke acceleration pattern

Our advanced analytics provide high-resolution speed and acceleration plots sampled at 200 Hz, offering a detailed view of boat movement. A unique acceleration flag pattern display stacks individual strokes, enabling quick assessment of rowing consistency and style changes over time. This, combined with average speed and acceleration curves for selected pieces, offers deep insights into rowing technique and efficiency, helping to identify factors like fatigue impact on performance.

Screenshot of the heading deviation plot

By tracking course deviations at 200 Hz, the system provides detailed insights into how steering affects overall performance. Slow, gradual course corrections have minimal impact on race times, while rapid adjustments can add significant distance. This feature helps coaches and coxswains optimize steering strategies, especially in challenging conditions, by visualizing course deviations, color-coding stroke starts based on heading, and calculating the extra distance covered due to suboptimal steering.

Screenshot of part of the segment comparison feature

Stroke parameters can be compared across different segments, enhancing understanding of each boat or crew's performance and aiding in finding the optimal setup. Increases in speed or stroke distance at a constant stroke rate provide insights into rowing power and efficiency. These correlations can be visibly influenced by external factors such as wind and currents, offering a comprehensive view of performance dynamics.

Screenshot of part of the force and power analysis

Import the raw Peach force data to get detailed insights into each rower's force and power output along with the oar angles. Our webapp automatically splits, processes, and visualizes these parameters without the need for additional software or cumbersome manual segmentation.

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Experience the power of Archinisis' rowing performance analysis firsthand in a personalized 30-minute online demo. Schedule your one-on-one Zoom call now to see our solution in action and get all your questions answered by our expert team.

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Who works with Archinisis' rowing analysis?

We have multiple national teams as customers, who won in total 4 Olympic medals at the Paris 2024 summer olympic games as well as universities such as Princeton (USA) and Cambridge (GBR), high schools and rowing clubs.

Benefits
for Coaches

Real-time feedback transforms your coaching by providing instant insights into the impact of your input. This immediate data allows you to verify athlete execution and response on the spot, enhancing control over training sessions and ensuring consistent progress towards goals. This dynamic interaction maximizes the effectiveness of each practice, creating a more responsive and targeted training environment.

Make informed decisions based on objective performance metrics. Confirm your subjective observations with concrete data, ensuring that your coaching strategies are grounded in evidence. This data-driven approach enhances your credibility and authority, fostering trust and respect among athletes and staff.

As a coach you cannot see everything your athletes are doing. Our system sees everything and makes sure you do not miss anything. Double-check if your athletes are following your instructions and make sure they are not overdoing it. Help them overcome bad sections or bad days by focusing on the positive aspects of their performance.

Automating data collection and analysis to save time on manual review. No more need for manual split times or manual stroke rate counting. Our system does it all for you. Performance can easily be tracked and compared over time, without the need to fill in spreadsheets or manually calculate averages.

Our meticulously crafted graphs and automatic video overlays serve as powerful visual aids, enabling you to articulate strategies and deliver feedback with greater clarity and impact. By grounding your coaching advice in objective, verifiable data, you'll build stronger trust with your athletes, enhancing the effectiveness of your communication and the overall coaching process.
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Benefits
for Athletes

Gain insights into your own personal strengths and areas for improvement. Track how your performance evolves over time and make data-driven adjustments to your training. Make sure that the training brings the desired results and that you are on track to reach your goals.

Receive tailored training programs based on your individual performance data and how it evolves over time.

Get concrete, data-backed insights into your performance. Align your feeling with objective data. Boost your confidence by knowing your strengths and how to play them out when it matters.

Visualizing progress and setting achievable performance targets helps you to stay motivated. See where and how much you improved.

Understand the interplay between technique, effort, and performance. See how your movement affects boat speed and efficiency, and make informed adjustments to optimize your rowing.

Realtime Feedback

Our advanced real-time performance monitoring system allows seamless data streaming from multiple boats to coaches anywhere in the world. The boat-mounted sensor automatically connects via 4G, transmitting raw data to our dedicated server for instant processing and delivery to your smartphone or tablet.

This technology eliminates distance limitations between coaches and rowers, removing the need for additional devices and avoiding Bluetooth syncing issues. The only requirement is a stable 4G connection throughout the rowing course. Key parameters computed and displayed in real-time include:

  1. Stroke rate
  2. Pace (in min:sec per 500m and percent of prognostics)
  3. Distance per stroke
  4. Boat speed
  5. Total distance covered

This comprehensive, real-time data empowers coaches to make immediate, informed decisions, enhancing the effectiveness of training sessions and race performances.

This is how the dashboard looks like, optimized for mobile displays:
Screenshot of the realtime dashboard