Volume 1 / 2014 Volume 2 / 2014 “Tuks of Niks” AB de Villiers, Caster Semenya, Victor Matfield, Bridgitte Hartley, Pierre Spies, Roland Schoeman, Faf du Plessis, Cornel Fredericks, Simphiwe Dludlu and LJ van Zyl all have one thing in common. Aside from their international acclaim as some of the world’s most highly regarded sports persons, they all have the University of Pretoria as a guiding force behind them. The high performance centre (hpc) at the University is widely acknowledged as the best of its kind in the country. As South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy, the University of Pretoria also acknowledges its achievements, both on and off the track. The University offers highly regarded academic programmes with a sport focus, as well as essential training and facilities for many different sport codes. Our research focus extends to sport and sport science in a bid to use knowledge to improve the competitiveness and physical performance of athletes. Our academic performance, coupled with our sport prowess, has made Tuks a force to be reckoned with. We celebrate the achievements of our great athletes who show the world that the right attitude, hard work and commitment lead to success. www.up.ac.za Feature 45 Nutrition: When food is not enough 50 New Developments: Wattbikes - a new dimension 6 Success Ahead to training People 52 Coaching: Pierre de Bruyn Taking on the best 10 There is no stopping Cameron 54 Coaching: Coaching is key 56 Parenting in Sport: Supporting Elite Athletes: 12 Queen of all trades What parents should do 14 Money makes the word go round TuksSport High School 16 Throwing away Stereotypes 58 Nike Academy, the first year 18 Legend: Hennie Kotze 60 UP celebrates the beginning of a new era for TuksSport High School High Performance Services 62 TuksSport News 22 Psychology: When is the end the end of an athlete’s career: Physical or psychological reality? 66 Inside News 24 Physiotherapy: The importance of a physiotherapist in the management of sports teams 70 From The Sideline 28 Medical: High Performance 32 Sport Science: Breathing in New Life: The invisible Support 34 Biokinetics: Peaking for performance 38 Biomechanics: The 5th Swimming Stroke 40 Nutrition: Boosting your Immune System Cover Image: Reg Caldecott Medallist 3 The Medallist is published by the hpc. 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TuksSport (Pty) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Pretoria and is trading as hpc University of Pretoria Publisher: hpc, PO Box 14622, Hatfield, 0028, Tel: +27 12 362 9800, Fax: +27 12 362 9890 Executive Editor: Toby Sutcliffe, [email protected], Managing Editor: Leonore Jordaan, [email protected] Layout: Maunée Meiring, [email protected] 4 Medallist from the Research has proved that Olympic Shaun Keeling and Vincent Breet medals are won at least 8 - 10 were placed 3rd. years in advance and that high performance is a moving target At the Senior African Athletics and methods of producing better Championships in Marrakech, being left results are changing daily. It is also Morocco the hpc sponsored behind. imperative that we understand athletes Cornel Fredericks, Wenda that “It is not every four years, Nel, Lebogang Shange, Khotso We will from but every day!” and it is how we Mokoena and Orazio Cremona the hpc’s sport live our lives and train on a daily all won gold in their respective science & medical basis that will be the key that will disciplines while Khotso Makoena unit, in partnership either lead to us performing at the added a Silver in Long Jump to his with the Institute for Sports highest level or just being another medal tally. Research and the Sports Medicine participant. department of the University Bridgitte Hartley claimed a bronze of Pretoria, which consists of This is what we at the hpc have medal in the K1 Women’s 500m some of the finest scientists and been working towards since I World Canoeing championships practitioners in South Africa, took over as CEO some nine years in Russia and Zander Lombard ensure that our athletes receive ago. Before the 2012 Olympic came second in the British Open all the support and assistance they Games we were merely thought Amateur Golf Championships. A need to perform at the highest of as Southern Africa’s first elite number of our Judokas went on level. performance sports facility as we to win their respective African had not yet had top performances Championships and in swimming 2015 will also be an exciting year to bench-mark the efficiency of Karin Prinsloo won a number with the TuksSport High School the centre on. of events in the Mare Nostrum moving into its new custom built world swimming events. These School on the Sports Campus Today, years down the line, we are but just a few of the excellent of the University thanks to a can boast the delivery of 3 of performances by our athletes in magnanimous donation from an the 6 medals won at the 2012 2014. anonymous donor. It is planned Olympic Games in London, with that the opening will take place in a Gold, Silver and Bronze through All of these international the third term of 2015 (July) and our Rowing “Oarsome Foursome’, championships were a great this will allow our learners more Caster Semenya and Bridgitte stepping stone on the Road to Rio contact time with the teachers Hartley. This year also saw our and gave us a good indication of and the respective sport science athletes winning five medals at the just where our sponsored athletes and medical services, as well as 2014 Commonwealth Games in currently are in their preparation with their respective coaches. Glasgow, with Cornel Fredericks, for Rio 2016, two years from now. Khotso Mokoena and Zack Piontek 2014 has been a fantastic year and all winning Gold, a Silver by Kate The most exciting part of the 2015 is a very important year as Roberts and a Bronze by Jacques journey that the hpc has travelled it is the start of the qualification van Zyl. over the last 12 years is yet to process for Rio Olympics 2016. My come and, whilst we acknowledge thanks to the athletes, coaches, Further to this our rowing squad what we have achieved, we also sport science and medical staff qualified four Olympic-class boats understand that the world of and all other staff at the hpc who for the A-finals at the World international sport is an ever have all contributed to another Rowing Championships and changing world and that there bumper year! Olympic gold medallists James will always be areas where we Thompson and John Smith were can improve upon. We also ONWARDS AND UPWARDS! crowned world champions in the understand that with technological men’s lightweight double sculls advances taking place on a daily posting a world-best time in the basis we need to stay abreast of final, and the heavyweight pair of these latest developments or risk Medallist 5 Feature | Text: Wilhelm de Swardt With their tally of eleven gold, There are also athletes, such as three silver en three bronze Wian Sullwald (triathlon), who medals in the period July to improved by leaps and bounds September this season, the this season. At the end of last year athletes of the High Performance Sullwald was ranked 75th in the Centre (hpc) have good reason world and currently he is ranked to believe that they are at the 35th. Knowledgeable people are forefront of South Africa’s sporting quick to point out that Sullwald is success. currently performing better than the legendary Brownlee brothers Their winning streak started at from Britain, Alistair and Jonathan, the Commonwealth Games in when they were his age. It is a Glasgow and continued through given that he will be stronger and the World Rowing Championships tactically much more astute in in Amsterdam; the World Sprint 2016. So ‘watch this space’. Canoeing Championships in Moscow; the African Athletics There is much talk about the Championships in Marrakech and possibility of a medal for the South the Inter Continental Athletics Cup African sprinters in the 4x100 relay in Marrakech. in Rio. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Akani Simbine, The prediction by Toby Sutcliffe, Henricho Bruintjes and Ncincilili CEO of hpc, that the hpc- Titi (all hpc/Tuks athletes) and sponsored athletes could win Simon Magakwe finished fourth in up to seven medals at the 2016 the final of the relay in a time of Olympic Games in Rio is beginning 38.35s. In doing so they bettered to seem quite possible. the record of 38.47s that was set in Edmonton, Canada, in 2001. Judging by their performances this season Cornel Fredericks It will be safe to predict that more (400-hurdles), Khotso Mokoena of the hpc-sponsored athletes will (triple jump or long jump); John be in contention to medal at the Smith, James Thompson, Shaun Games in 2016, but Sutcliffe and Keeling, Vincent Breet (all rowing); his team of experts do not take Bridgitte Hartley (sprint canoeing) anything for granted. and Cameron van der Burgh (swimming) could all be medal “Before the Commonwealth contenders in 2016. Games I attended a board meeting of the Association of 6 Medallist | Feature Medallist 7 Feature | Sport Performance Centres.