New technology to help measure boxing performance in Cuba

MATANZAS, Cuba, Dec 14 (ACN) The training of coaches of the National Boxing School in Cuba will soon be part of the deployment of the computer system Sport Intelligence Suite, designed to monitor indicators of high-performance athletes.

It is an analytical tool for decision-making developed by the Matanzas Scientific and Technological Park (PCTM by its Spanish acronym) along with the Cuban Sports Research Center (CIDC by its Spanish acronym), which recently won the Technological Innovation Award at the Afide 2023 event, held in Havana.

Rigoberto Sanchez Morales, a project specialist at the Park, told the Cuban News Agency that coaches will learn how to collect data in a variant of Compubox, a system used globally to keep boxing statistics, and then visualize them in the subsystems of performance and study of opponents.

It is one more step towards achieving the technological sovereignty that our country needs so much; for the moment the work is focused on boxing as a pilot experience, before extending to other disciplines such as wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling, karate, taekwondo, judo, baseball, basketball, volleyball and baseball five, he added.

According to Lilian Lopez Acuña, PCTM communicator, the tool allows the ICDC to make reports that facilitate decision making at different levels, evaluate in real time the sports training aspects of each athlete, and their response to different situations and methods.

The Park promotes different projects linked to the digital transformation of Cuban society in areas such as e-government and banking, including Varadero: digital city, which allows turning the resort into a connected environment through the integration of technologies.