Brad Langevad and Biomechanics

Tennis is Brad's primary passion and he played the professional tennis circuit in his youth. Despite the best coaching, a couple of his strokes kept letting him down and this also led to painful injuries. Brad began to question the way tennis was being taught at senior coaching levels and within professional coaching associations and the way injuries were being managed.
After completing a science degree he began to explore the use of bio-statistics, physics and computer technology to examine the movements of the body and apply it to tennis students. It became clear that conflicting body movements restrict a player’s ability to act fluently and caused injury. Golfers, cricketers etc. all suffered.
To test his theories Brad analysed videos of hundreds of athletes, over several years, from top professionals to every day sportsmen. Brad found that the top athletes had a great deal in common, whereas the weaker performers varied greatly. Despite the idiosyncrasies that made the successful actions appear different, they varied only marginally . They were all following the same basic biomechanical principles, naturally, and often in defiance of their coach’s methods. To complicate the issue, world champions had fine actions and weaker actions. By giving statistical numbers for actions and adding them he could roughly get the world rankings, with slight variations, explained by intelligence, tactics etc. He found through interview that the more successful actions had been less coached and that the 'Agassi Forehand' etc had slipped through the 'instructers trap' and developed efficiency, naturally, whereas the 'weaker Agassi Serve' etc had been engulfed by the instructor's dogma. He realised that he was not defining actions to justify science but instead, using science to explain nature as art.
The findings were to define the coaching philosophy he has used for the last 25 years. He was biomechanically defining each perfect action, even basic walking, sitting and sleeping. He was helping office workers, drivers, labourers, hairdressers etc. Even bank tellers found that they were no longer tired and had increased their efficiencies in duty. Brad was now in high demand to lecture to eg. major shoe design companies, like Adidas.