Steve Haake on technology, sport and health

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Steve Haake,has spent much of his career using technology to help elite sports people get better, faster and break records. He has turned his hand to the engineering behind most sports, from studying how golf balls land, to designing new tennis racquets and changing the materials in ice skates. He’s now Professor of Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and was the Founding Director of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre there. Since the 2012 London Olympics, Steve has also been working to improve the health and wellbeing of all of us. As Chair of the Parkrun Research Board he’s heavily involved in this international phenomenon in which thousands of people have sprinted, jogged and stumbled around a 5-kilometre course on Saturday mornings, which he’s shown really does encourage people to be generally more active. Jim al-Khalili talks to Steve Haake about how he got from a physics degree to being one of the leading sports engineers in the world, and how we can all improve our health by moving more.

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0:36.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific. I'm Jim Alkalele and I'm on a mission to interview as many of our leading scientists as I can
0:42.0	to find out what they're up to and what makes them tick.
0:45.4	2020 was supposed to be a summer of sport, Wimbledon, international football in the form of the European
0:51.8	Cup and of course the Olympics.
0:54.0	But those of us who enjoy sport are having to wait another year for these demonstrations of triumph
0:59.2	and disaster.
1:01.0	Someone with a deeper interest in sport than most of my guests is Steve Haak, who spent much
1:06.3	of his career using technology to help elite sports people get better, faster and break records. Sometimes, as we'll hear, the new equipment he's helped develop
1:16.1	isn't permitted by the bodies that run a particular sport. Since the 2012 London Olympics,
1:21.8	Steve has also been working to improve the health and well-being of all of us.
1:26.0	As chair of the Park Run Research Board, he's heavily involved in this international phenomenon in which thousands of people have
1:32.8	sprinted, jogged and stumbled around a 5-kilometer course on
1:36.3	Saturday mornings, which he shown really does encourage people to be generally more
1:40.9	active.
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