**New Feature** Data Export Functionality

Stratiam now allows for chart-image and data-export options. Even though Stratiam offers best in class pre-built and curated dashboard for you, ready to work straight out of the box. Many of our users have requested the ability to still get to the underlying data. For this reason we’ve rolled out a data-export option.

  Anthony Osborn   Mar 2021   1 min read   70 views

Life After Skiing

I once was so young, ambitious and focused that I didn’t believe there was a life after skiing. Yes, I know, this was very ignorant but it helped me stay in the present and channel all my focus and energy into achieving my short term goal, to become an Olympic skier. After my fourth Olympics in Sochi, I remember the BBC being at the finish asking me about my presumed retirement announcement. I quickly shut them down. I was high on adrenaline and more pain free in that moment than I had been in the preceding three years. “Not now. I want more.” ...

  Chemmy Alcott   Mar 2021   4 min read   565 views

Why Everyone Should Do Sport

In summer 2012, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the London Olympics. Seeing the incredible positivity surrounding sport, whether it be the 100 metre final or BMX’ing filled me with joy and excitement about a ‘new age’ of sport that would begin to take over society! I know how fortunate I am to have lived a life through sport and learn so many life lessons from it. However....

  Chemmy Alcott   Mar 2021   3 min read   119 views

Aero testing for marginal gains

It's an age-old saying that tiny steps can add up to a massive overall improvements. This is equally true in sport - just as it is in business. 

Before the latest round of covid lockdowns we went to Silverstone’s 'Sports Engineering Hub’ where they have a state-of-the-art wind tunnel.  Assisting us was 4X winter olympian and Ski Sunday presenter; Chemmy Alcott. Chemmy knows huge amounts about both wind tunnel testing and also how to monitor incremental variable changes, for marginal gains, one step at a time, both from her Olympic days and current role as instructor, trainer and mentor to our ...

  Anthony Osborn   Feb 2021   10 min read   722 views

The Mental Battle Within

The strength of this cog is such that it has the ability to both create G.O.A.T (greatest of all time) athletes and those who never live up to their potential. It has many names - mentality, psychology, mindset, characteristic, ethos…. It is the hardest cog to master, to control, to analyse and to collect data on. How many times have you heard - if only we could bottle up a bit of that confidence?

  Chemmy Alcott   Feb 2021   4 min read   397 views

Lifestyle, Self Care, Nutrition and Injury Prevention

My weakest cog and the one that I had to be most cognitive of was more holistic than the rest. In some areas I was good. Maybe not for the right reasons but I used to have enough rest - unfortunately instead of it purely stemming from being a performance indicator it was superstition. I needed 9 hours sleep. So I would count back from when I needed to wake up (and sometimes come spring time that was very early) and make sure I was in bed by 8pm. Then I knew I would have my spark.

  Chemmy Alcott   Feb 2021   5 min read   378 views

How Stratiam helps to identify performance improvements and competitive advantage in IT, business and sport

I’m old enough to remember that in the early days of the Internet upload and download speeds were so poor that you were lucky if you could upload a 10Mb file. How times have changed and most of us haven’t even noticed that we are all streaming video, working from home and operating as though the Internet was just like turning a light bulb on or boiling a kettle.

  Peter Job   Jan 2021   5 min read   133 views

Uncover the Team and the Equipment Behind the Athlete

On paper, ski racing is very much an individual sport but that is far from the truth. Behind the racer is an incredibly important support team. From the coach who takes on all the responsibility for tactical and technical input, to the physical trainer who helps the athlete get in their best form and the physio who helps the athlete get to their peak physical condition.

  Chemmy Alcott   Jan 2021   4 min read   331 views

How Athletes Optimise Their Physicality

I am stronger than my peers. I can lift more weight. I have faster agility. I am more co-ordinated. I have higher levels of flexibility. However, I wasn’t winning every race. Being physically the best in the world off the snow WILL 100% give you confidence that you have prepared the best that you can. It WILL help you recover from mistakes you make on your skis quicker. It WILL help you load the skis with more pressure. It WILL help you power out the start more efficiently.

  Chemmy Alcott   Jan 2021   4 min read   668 views

Understand the 'Skill of Skiing' at almost 100mph down a 25° slope

I am starting the in-depth cog detail mentioned in my first blog with the most obvious of pre-requisition to be a champion in sport - huge technical skill. The number of times I have heard the following: “It is a gravity sport, point your skis down and go. The heavier you are the faster you go, as simple as that!” What absolute nonsense.

  Chemmy Alcott   Dec 2020   4 min read   758 views