Taekwondo Rio 2016 AnalysisBy Si-Sowaddi AING

Summary

❏ Olympic History ❏ Data Opportunity❏ TKD Analysis❏ Take aways

Olympic History

Olympic History

"Taekwondo may be the only Olympic sport with an upgrade cycle as fast as the iPhone's"

Olympic History

Data Opportunity

Data Opportunity

Data Opportunity

Data Opportunity

TKD Analysis

Why?

● To demystify... like “Is XYZ true?”● To validate… like “I think that XYZ”

Data beats opinion #yeah #thumbsup

● Olympic Taekwondo for young people only?● Olympic tkd for tall and skinny people?● Are males more aggressive than females?● Are punches useless?● What about head kicks?● Wow TKD is a KO system sport… #waitforit

TKD Analysis - Average Age / division

TKD Analysis - Relation weight and height

Men divisionsWomen divisions

TKD Analysis - total scores by attack / division

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

Take aways

● Digital (r)evolution of the sport● Embrace it● Data are there● How these data can help my fighters, my coach, my referee, my club, my

students...?● From this you should do/train/teach differently

Appendix - links

● http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/07/10/germanys-12th-man-at-the-world-cup-big-data/

● https://www.wired.com/2016/08/not-just-taekwondo-looks-totally-different-rio/

● https://www.rio2016.com/en/taekwondo

Appendix - TKD Analysis - total kicks / division