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2019 ALL-ACCESS GIVEAWAY

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Upgrade every team to the best Hudl tech.

Score Hudl products for your entire school. We’ll hook up one lucky high school with our best athletic department package. Enter by Aug. 7 for your school’s chance to get everything it needs to win with video.

Enter to Win

Official Rules

Win up to $25,000 in Hudl products and services.

This year-long athletic department package includes:

Treat your teams and fans to the luxury of perfectly captured game film.

Focus gives coaches and athletes HD video from the ideal angle. This smart camera automatically records and uploads film of every team that plays or practices in your gym. You’ll receive up to two cameras and free installation so you can capture HD video without a cameraman.

Get a Platinum subscription to the best coaching, learning and recruiting platform in sports.

We strategically designed Hudl to help every player get inspired, get better and get noticed. With Hudl, your coaches can access video and game-changing insights from anywhere at any time. All your teams will get a Platinum subscription, our top package that includes 500 video storage hours per sport and on-site training for your entire staff.

Save countless hours on stats and reports when our analysts do them for you.

Enable your teams to spend more time strategizing their next win and less time breaking down film. Football, basketball, volleyball, soccer and lacrosse coaches will save hundreds of hours with game breakdowns from Hudl Assist. Varsity game and scout video have a 12-hour turnaround, so you’ll have plenty of time to prepare for your next match-up.

Bring the film room to the field and adjust at game-speed with instant replay.

Want your football team to operate like the pros? In-game adjustments make all the difference. Take advantage of instant replay with review from multiple angles on an iPad or iPhone. The premium Sideline subscription includes two streaming kits and 24/7 support.

Enter Your School

Nominate your school by Aug. 7 to be eligible. The winning school will be chosen based on two criteria—a proven commitment to the athlete experience and the impact winning would have on the athletic program.

Enter to Win

No purchase necessary. Open to U.S. residents over 13 years old. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Aug. 7 2019. Giveaway is sponsored by Agile Sports Technologies, Inc. (Hudl). Click here for official rules.

 


Krossover Joins the Hudl Family

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Krossover Joins the Hudl Family

We’ve added Krossover to dou­ble down on our com­mit­ment to pro­vide teams more pow­er­ful tools, faster break­downs, and high­er qual­i­ty video.

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Today, I’m thrilled to announce the addi­tion of Krossover to the Hudl fam­i­ly and to share our vision for help­ing teams make bet­ter, faster deci­sions with video and data.

Over the past decade, Krossover pio­neered full-ser­vice video analy­sis and broke down games for thou­sands of coach­es. They changed the game in our indus­try. But in that time, the demands of teams have steadi­ly increased. They need high­er qual­i­ty video, faster break­downs, in-game insights and more expo­sure for ath­letes. These are all areas we’re invest­ing in aggres­sive­ly and why we believe Hudl is a great long-term home for Krossover customers.

I’d like to take this moment to share how Krossover fits into our mis­sion and vision for the future.

Our mis­sion is two-fold.

First, we’re here to help our teams win and our coach­es become world-class. Sec­ond, and equal­ly impor­tant, we’re here to give you time back to focus on what mat­ters — whether that’s spend­ing more time with your ath­letes, with your fam­i­ly or in the classroom.

You demand more data, faster, with less effort.

Ten years ago, coach­es kept stats by hand and spent hours break­ing down game film. Five years ago, the sim­ple pair­ing of video and data on the Hudl plat­form gave teams an edge.

Today, the lev­el of com­pe­ti­tion and the impor­tance of data-dri­ven deci­sions are high­er than ever. The bur­den this places on coach­es is real and has pushed us to evolve the role we play for our teams. It’s not enough to put pow­er­ful tools at your fin­ger­tips — we need to bring the insights to you. That’s why we launched Hudl Assist in 2015 and are now bring­ing Krossover into the family.

Hudl cus­tomers will ben­e­fit from the extra analy­sis firepower.

With the addi­tion of Krossover, we’ll strength­en our ana­lyt­ics tools and break­down ser­vices. Their com­mu­ni­ty of ana­lysts will help us break down more than one mil­lion games this year, and their best prac­tices will help us improve our prod­ucts. Along the way, you’ll see faster turn­around times and even high­er break­down quality.

Our pace of inno­va­tion is accelerating.

Our pur­pose is more than help­ing you win the next game. We’re build­ing solu­tions that deliv­er insights as close to real-time as pos­si­ble so you and your ath­letes can make adjust­ments as the game unfolds.

Five years ago, we offered the abil­i­ty to record and upload video with our mobile app. Over half of our teams use that method today. But, we can’t stop there. Last year, we launched Hudl Focus, our smart cam­era that auto­mat­i­cal­ly records and uploads games and prac­tices. This year, we’re adding live stream­ing and will test Focus for out­door sports.

We’ve expand­ed Hudl to offer sport-spe­cif­ic tools across ath­let­ic depart­ments, includ­ing reports and break­downs for foot­ball, bas­ket­ball, vol­ley­ball, soc­cer, lacrosse and ice hockey.

And there’s more to come.

This month, we’re launch­ing detailed attack ten­den­cies reports for vol­ley­ball. In the com­ing months, we’ll roll out new insights for soc­cer, Hudl Assist for ice hock­ey, and improved video qual­i­ty for every team. That’s a small sam­ple of what’s com­ing soon.

In the not-so-dis­tant future, we see a world where every one of your games will be record­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Video will stream to you on the side of the court or field along with exact­ly the data you need dur­ing the game. Your fans that can’t make it to the game will enjoy a pro­fes­sion­al-qual­i­ty live broad­cast. Every key moment will be assem­bled into playlists for half-time review and high­light reels will be added to ath­lete pro­files as they hap­pen. Your post-game review will be primed and ready the minute the final whis­tle blows, and the scout­ing report for your next oppo­nent will already be teed up.

Keep push­ing us.

Our vision is big because that’s what you deserve, and I’ve nev­er been more con­fi­dent that we’ll deliv­er on it. Krossover join­ing the Hudl fam­i­ly takes us a step clos­er to bring­ing it all to life.

Thank you.

John Wirtz, Hudl Co-Founder and Chief Prod­uct Officer

 


Pros and Cons of Early Morning Workouts

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This article was republished with the permission of  Training-Conditioning

Many teams hold training sessions or regular practice sessions in the early morning hours. Sometimes this is done out of necessity, other times coaches and strength/conditioning coaches believe it’s a good way to instill the value of hard work and determination their athletes.

But is it the best thing for your athletes?

Mike Nitka, longtime strength and conditioning coach and a Hall of Fame member of the National High School Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (NHSSCA), believes that early-morning training can negatively impact teenage athletes.

“High school strength coaches are meticulous about prescribing sets and reps,” Coach Nitka said in an article on the Volt website, “but often ignore the research on sleep requirements and early morning practice for teen athletes.”

Many coaches forget that, “Today’s young athletes have a lot on their plates: family, school, homework, sports practice and training. Combine those obligations with the biological shift in circadian rhythm that occurs during adolescence, shifting a teen’s internal clock back by about two hours and causing them to naturally rise and fall asleep later than younger children, and you have a recipe for potential disaster,” the article on Volt states.

Still, the article took an in-depth look at the Pro’s and Con’s of holding early-morning practices.

Here are the “Pro’s” mentioned in the article:

1. Having early-morning practices builds both mental toughness and team unity.

Holding practices or training sessions in the morning forces athletes to develop discipline and time management skills in order get their schoolwork done. And all of the athletes share a common bond through their “shared suffering.”

2. It can simulate what athletes will go through in the heat of competition.

Athletes who get into a routine of early workouts are likely to develop a quicker transition into the feelings they will need to fare well when things get tough in games and matches.

3. It may be the only time your team use the practice faciilty or weight room.

The article states that this is usually the main reason a coach holds early workouts.

Coach Nitka provided the following thoughts regarding these “Pro’s.”.

“My current thoughts on early morning training and practices can be summed up in two words: Please don’t,” he says in the article. “There is always another option, if coaches are willing to compromise. As the head strength coach, I would approach the sport coach and ask if I could fit in a quicker lifting session after practice, as opposed to 6am. Even a quick 30-minute session is enough to fit in some power development, if you’re organized and have a solid program.”

Here are the “con’s” to holding early-morning practice or workouts that the article lists.

1. It can contribute to a chronic lack of sleep.

The article mentions the direct correlation between athletes suffering from lack of sleep and sports-related injuries based on studies that have been done..

2. Athletes may not have the proper nutrition base to get the most out of the session.

Many athletes forego eating a solid breakfast because they are shortening the time between waking up and leaving for the practice/workout session. The article writes that this can leave athletes in a glycogen-depleted state early in the morning. As a result, the quality of training suffers.

3. A regular routine of early-morning practies/workouts can inhibit recovery and tissue repair.

“An athlete will only get stronger if they have sufficient time between weight room sessions for the body to repair itself, and early-morning workouts can sabotage this recovery—leading to performance decrements and, potentially, injury,” the article states. And this is especially the case if the team has evening practices or games followed by an early-morning session.

“The recovery process for high schoolers seems to be an afterthought for many coaches,” Coach Nitka said in the article. “High school workouts are about progressively developing strength and power in our athletes. Where do we help them improve their diet choices?  Where do we educate them on how to rest and recover between practices by discussing sleep needs to maximize their ability to compete?”

4. Regularly practicing and training in the morning can lead to increased stress for athletes.

Athletes are already stressed enough, and sleep deprivation can contribute to excessive anxiety. “We already know that athletes are more prone to injury during periods of high academic stress, so adding the physical stress of training compounded by a lack of sleep can create a perfect storm of stress for teen athletes,” the article says.

5. If the early-morning session is a strength/conditioning workout, is it properly supervised?

Coach Nitka has seen first-hand that many training sessions are not properly supervised—at any time, but especially in the early morning.

“I’ve been to schools where the weight room is open at all hours, so kids can get their lifts in. I’d find the door unlocked and kids lifting unsupervised—or supervised by someone other than a qualified strength and conditioning coach, like the seniors on the team,” he said in the article.


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Everything you need to capture, analyze and improve.

Don’t miss your chance to get Hudl, Hudl Assist and an elevated camera.

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CAPTURE VIDEO

This SVT Advantage kit will ensure you have the perfect recording angle for every match.

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