Steve Haake

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 28 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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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.4	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC commissioner for a load of sport
0:07.4	podcasts. I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with
0:10.7	leading journalists, experienced pundits and the biggest
0:13.2	sports stars. Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights
0:17.5	straight from the player's mouths. But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sporting world.
0:24.4	What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection
0:28.7	to dedicated sports fans across the UK.
0:31.1	So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.
0:35.6	This is Discovery from the BBC. I'm Jimel Killelli and in today's program I'm in conversation
0:41.8	with a leading scientist about their life and
0:44.4	research. Welcome to the life scientific.
0:47.4	2020 was supposed to be a summer of sport.
0:51.6	Wimbledon, international football in the form of the
0:54.0	European Cup and of course the Olympics. But those of us who enjoy sport are having to
0:58.8	wait another year for these demonstrations of triumph and disaster.
1:03.5	Someone with a deeper interest in sport
1:05.5	than most of my guests is Steve Haik, who spent much of his career
1:09.7	using technology to help elite sports people get better, faster and break records.
1:15.0	Sometimes, as we'll hear, the new equipment he's helped develop isn't permitted by
1:20.0	the bodies that run the particular sport.
1:22.0	Since the 2012 London Olympics
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