Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
Takedown Helps Athlete Get College Scholarship
Getting a look from college coaches can be a challenge. Takedown helped one athlete get a scholarship.
From our inbox last week, a very nice and satisfying note from a head coach:
“I have used this app for a few years now. It is amazing. It played a very important role in helping one of our athletes get a scholarship to wrestle for the Univ. of Jamestown. We provided them with very detailed stats and she will be the first in her family to attend college and on scholarship!”
Good luck to this young lady as she transitions to the next level!
If you want to know how to help your athletes get to the next level by using Takedown's digital scoring and stats, see this post.
Record Video and Score Matches Simultaneously in Takedown
Just because you like sausage doesn’t mean you want to live in a sausage factory. Video is a lot like sausage.
Coaches love match video. But they don't like hauling around separate recording devices, transferring files from camcorders (or mobile devices), renaming video files, organizing video libraries and making their video library easily accessible to athletes, parents and other coaches. It's one of those love-hate things. Video consumption is valuable. Video production is a pain (and time consuming).
Integrated Video Recording/Review
Luckily, Apple's iPad is a video production powerhouse. Our upcoming Fall 2018 release will utilize the iPad's native video capabilities to offer video recording and review from within the Takedown Scoring and Stats app. This new feature address the major pain points of video production: recording, storage, labeling, organization, cloud storage and sharing.
Here's a Q&A about this exciting feature.
Demo and Early Access
If you'd like a demo or want to kick the tires, let us know by filling out this form. We expect to continue internal testing this month, offer pre-release this summer and App Store availability in October.
Wrestling Classic (Dapper Dan) on Takedown LIVE This Week
Follow the scoring action in real-time, here's how.
A premier post-season all-star event, the Wrestling Class (Dapper Dan) will be on Takedown LIVE this coming Sunday, March 25th. Action starts at 4P (Eastern) with Iowa All Stars v. WPIAL All Stars, followed by the 6P showdown between the USA All Stars and Pennsylvania All Stars.
Last year's Classic results can be found here. Search our site for ‘Dapper Dan results’ from 1975 through 2015.
Event website: Wrestling Classic.
Unfortunate Plight of NCAA Wrestling Assistant ADs and SIDs, Part II
Another example of why NCAA athletic departments must do better and wrestling coaches need to get involved.
In November 2016, we first lamented about the regrettable job of a wrestling assistant AD or SID having to regurgitate rote scoring information that Takedown can generate in automatically. That post can be read here.
Recently, we looked at a Brown University News post about two of their duals. Here's that release with the content that Takedown does not generate highlighted in yellow.
Reciting scoring and match outcomes in 2017 is low value-added. We need more color, back-ground and in-depth content, the qualitative stuff that Takedown Scoring and Stats doesn’t provide. That’s what fans want and need.