Tracy Axel (USA Surfing Director of High Performance & Mamba Sports Academy Manager of Sport Performance Research & Analytics)

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Episode 34: Andy McDonald chats to Tracy Axel the Director of high performance analytics at USA surfing and manager of sports performance research and analytics at Mamba sports academy. In this episode with Tracy we’ll be discussing her role at USA surfing and unpackaged what professional surfing looks like from a sport science and performance analytics standpoint.

In this episode Andy and Tracy discuss:

Surfing as an Olympic sport
Training culture in surfing
Performance markers in surfing
Physiology and conditioning in surfing
Return to play in surfing
Future of research in surfing
Tracys approach to high-performance
Effective communication between a performance MDT

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