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COBEM 2021
26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF PHYSICAL EFFORT GAUGING SYSTEM IN SURF TRAINING EQUIPMENT-A PILOT STUDY
Submission Author:
Luiz Fernando Segalin de Andrade , SC
Co-Authors:
Caio Kenji Oshima, Luiz Fernando Segalin de Andrade
Presenter: Luiz Fernando Segalin de Andrade
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2021.COB2021-1100
Abstract
One of the application fields of Mechanical / Mechatronic Engineering is the development of technologies to performance sports. Nowadays, there are modalities with gaps of equipments to practice and training. Maybe one of the biggest example be the surf. This sport is having a quick increase, reaching the status of Olympic sport and being practice by thousand of people around the world. However, for the sport development, there is today a need of new methods e specific equipments. Currently, the athletes are submeted to an adapted routine, usually searching for devices dedicated to other sports. This situation do not provide the ideal conditions to the practicers and limits the athletes’ potential, once the evaluation of results and training techniques are directly linked to their performance, and, being able to measure and evaluate development is indispensable for their evolution. Linked to that, Brazil today has expressive names in this modality. The country has World champions of professional surf, world record holders of big waves, between others respected practicers. Also, Santa Catarina has a lot of places to practice of the sport being a traditional cradle of athletes. Furthermore, the scientific institutions of the state have tradition in the development of technology. So, the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC) work together with de Surf Evolution Enterprise developed a specific equipment to surf training. This development was supported by the Sinapse da Inovação Program and generated a prototipe that was validated and it is in currently production. This prototipe was used to develop new functionality that is a system to the evaluation of the effort. The ergometer is the main equipment, used by the medicine too, to assess anaerobic and aerobic thresholds. Using the evaluation protocols and an ergometer you can train and evaluate an athlete specifically for the sport. This work presents the equipment development and the insertion of a system for evaluating the effort performed on the device surf training. The results generated show that it is possible to create new specific ways of evaluating surfing and that the equipment needs adaptations to generate better results.
Keywords
Surf simulator, Ergometer, performance evaluation
