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Subjects: Sports

  • North West 200

    North West 200

    The North West 200 in Northern Ireland is one of the world’s fastest and most dangerous road circuits. Alastair Seeley is a local hero, and the 34 year-old desperately wants to break the record of 15 career wins at the North West. He’ll have a chance to win at least five more times on the weekend of racing if he can avoid crashing.

    Formula 2 boat racer, Tammy Wolfe is taking on the big names in a Formula 1 event on the St. Lawrence river on the Ontario/Quebec border. If Tammy has a good showing she’ll be able to move up a class.

    Larry Larson is out to retain his title as World’s Fastest Street car, a smart car that’s been transformed into a dragster, and a jet powered truck tears it up on the quarter mile.

  • Bonneville Salt Flats

    Bonneville Salt Flats

    On this episode we follow the Vesco family as they try to set a new land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Vescos have been racing on the “flats” for three generations and they’ve held the land speed record since 2001, but the competition is closing in on their record and this year they’ll have to fend off their arch rivals, Speed Demon.

    Bobby Dykes is a part-time Las Vegas bartender who gets the ride of his life behind the wheel of a million dollar Ferrari. It’s a hair-raising experience that he can only describe as “awesome on top of awesome.”

    Nobody gets to school faster than Paul Stender as he fires up his jet school bus and goes head to head in an ultimate drag race with an airplane.

    The dirt is kicked up and the action is bumper-to-bumper on the half-mile oval as we cover the dash for sprint car championship.

    Valerie Thompson is all style and substance as she attempts to hit the magical 200-mile-per-hour mark on her motorcycle.

    On ‘Surviving Speed’ we catch up with daredevil Eric Barone who limped away after a wipeout at 170 kilometers an hour on his bicycle!

  • European Rally Championship

    European Rally Championship

    Rookies Craig Breen and Lara Venneste are determined to make a name for themselves on the European Rally Championship Series, but they’ll have to do it on the toughest track on the circuit. The San Remo Rally winds through the dangerous mountains of San Remo overnight with only headlights to guide the way. It will take everything Breen has to pilot his car to the finish line.

    Sabine Schmitz is Queen of the Ring. For 480 Euros a lap, Sabine scares the heck out of her passengers as she screams around the world famous Nürburgring racetrack in Germany.

    Carl Renezeder and Rob MacCachren go bumper to bumper 30 feet in the air at the Lucas Oil Off-Road championships.

    Mike Bowman says goodbye to his trusty old Chevelle after he goes zero to a hundred in less than two seconds.

    Francois Gissy goes 285 kilometers per hour…on a jet bicycle!

  • Improving Performance – Elite Athlete Case Studies

    Elite athletes employ simple strategies and techniques to improve performance. How better to gain an insight into these tried-and-tested methods, than to hear directly from the elite athletes and coaches themselves? This insightful program takes us trackside to the training grounds of eight sportspeople from around the world, who share their personal insights and stories of performance training. We learn how to plan an effective training schedule and discuss the importance of psychological preparation. We also discuss the risks involved in performance enhancing drugs, and the benefits that current advances in sports technology bring to athletic performance and measurement.

  • Sports Injuries – Classification and Management

    This program is a comprehensive guide to the classification and management of sports injuries. We learn how to manage soft tissue injuries (such as sprains, skin abrasions, lacerations, and blisters) and hard tissue injuries (fractures and dislocations). We learn to apply the RICER technique for managing soft tissue injuries and the TOTAPS and DRABC techniques for assessing and managing hard tissue injuries. Throughout the program we see detailed graphics and real-life examples of different injuries, talk to Paralympian Jessica Gallagher, and see dramatized scenarios demonstrating key injury management techniques.

  • Skill Acquisition for Sports Performance

    The ultimate goal of any aspiring athlete is to execute skills with form and efficiency. This program provides a detailed theoretical understanding of how skills are developed and conditioned at an elite level. We learn the difference between skills and abilities, explore types of skills, step through the three stages of skill acquisition, and discuss how everyone learns at a different rate. We also discuss internal and external factors that affect performance and learn useful techniques to evaluate performance. All of this theory is underpinned throughout the program by real-life examples and expert advice from a head coach and a sports psychologist.

  • The Coach

    The role of the sports coach/leader is to allow effective skill acquisition as well as guiding individuals and groups to reach their goals in terms of performance and competition. Nearly all those involved in sport will find themselves in a coaching situation at some point during their career from informal grassroots level through to international and professional sport. This programme explores what the requirements are of an effective sports coach and how coaches can best bring about quality performances from their charges. The film also addresses issues within coaching such as child protection and risk assessment.

  • The Referee

    This programme looks at the role of an official, different types of official and their assistants, the qualities of a good official, difficulties faced by officials, and how to become an umpire or referee. It contains interviews with Nigel Owens, a Rugby Union Referee, Natalie Anor, an International Men’s Rugby Referee, James Linnington a Premier League Football Referee, and Rory Weavers, one of the UK’s youngest gymnastics judges.

  • The Performer

    This educational DVD learning resource looks at the factors that can affect an athlete or sports person’s performance. Exercise physiology is discussed, including training principles and methods, fitness testing, working intensities and the importance of warm-ups and cool-downs. Sports psychology including mental imagery, goal-setting and arousal are explored, and skill acquisition is considered in detail. The programme concludes by looking at how participants can plan for improvement in their performances through analysis, evaluation and strategizing.

  • Mazda’s Semi-Final

    Today, Team Mazda revs up for their semi-final challenges on the track, while the four remaining Team Castrol members face an off-track surprise challenge. The Team Mazda drivers go through last-minute details with the instructors and the pit crew, strap in and hit the track for warm-up laps. The green flag falls and it’s go time. The victory lap goes to the race winner then, each racer is called before the judges to hear their evaluation and learn their fate. Potential, character, safety, coach-ability, performance and teamwork are measured. For four drivers, the goal is within their grasp; two drivers are heading home. The last eight savour this moment – only one race stands between each finalist and his or her Star Racer dream. Tomorrow one of them will pull ahead of the rest to win the ultimate prize.