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How video analysis is helping schools sports and why it is important

How video analysis is helping schools sports and why it is important

posted: 20 September 2023

What is Veo?

At Veo, our goal is to help every student, educator, coach and school to improve their engagement, enjoyment and understanding of sport both in and outside of the curriculum. Veo cameras automatically record sport and include a state-of-the-art analysis platform, powered by artificial intelligence.

How can Veo Help schools?

Recording school sport until recent years has been an unenviable task. Prior to Veo you would need an elevated platform, an expensive camera, and a skilled camera operator who must stay focused throughout the entire game. After a match or training session, a member of...

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Are Some Schools Losing the Plot?

Are Some Schools Losing the Plot?

posted: 11 September 2023

“There is something rotten in the state of Denmark” (Shakespeare’s Hamlet), and in the Machiavellian buying of talented sportsmen from schools by coaches to enhance their own reputations. Sadly, ethics, integrity and decency are sacrificed on the altar of a mistaken belief that success in sport equals outstanding educational institutions.

There has been an unsavoury situation in schools’ rugby for some years where northern provinces have treated the Eastern Cape Schools as a feeding trough to poach rugby players

Some perspective is perhaps to be gained by consulting excerpts from an article published in the Sunday Times by...

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Time for the Annual Long Jump?

Time for the Annual Long Jump?

posted: 22 June 2023

Late April and early May are not good times for curriculum PE and Games. Often deprived of indoor facilities by exam demands, and facing the historical primacy of Athletics, lessons on damp, cool fields can be uninspiring. Field events are especially vulnerable to being slow-moving, overly technical and short on both fun and progress.

And yet they persist in many environments. The infrequently challenged assumption that all events must be ‘covered’ ensures that groups of shivering pupils assemble around the sandpits and throwing areas, which have been roused from the sad neglect of their winter hibernation, for a few...

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