ESPN Sport Science

[Rand]

Has anyone seen ESPN's Sport Science show? Watched it last weekend and it was really interesting. They break down different athletes and rank them.

 

http://espn.go.com/espn/sportscience/index

 

 

[ComancheD]

Yeah I've seen a few of them.  two of my favorites are Jon Jones and Calvin Johnson.  They say Jon Jones striking range is farther than like 90% of men in the world and that Calvin Johnson's catch radius is about the size of a two car garage meaning that he can catch a ball in any any corner of it if he was standing in the middle.

[SirEarl]

it's a cool show, but it's really only good for pure numbers.  Sure Jon Jones has super long reach, but he's also in a sport that involves lots of grappling and mega close quarters.  Calvin Johnson has a catch radius larger than a two car garage, but that's assuming he has time to stop, react, and outmove his defender.  I remember they did one where it was hand speed of a basketball point guard or forward or something vs the hand speed of a drummer.  They said that the drummer would be using single stroke, but during the test he started doing a double stroke roll, which would've made his hands slower actually.  Also, they chose a hard rock drummer instead of a drummer who truly comes with speed like a jazz drummer or a good hardcore drummer.  That being said, it's cool to know that Rampage Jackson can punch with half-ton force or that a golf ball is the fastest moving ball in sports.