Deporte Total, Total Sport Festival in Madrid

[14/05/05]
[Cultura]

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But of 100,000 people they have been able to enjoy the first edition of Total Sport, the fair of Deporte in Madrid. Demonstrations of diverse sport specialties, stands of prestige marks, and much participation of the attending public has marked 4 days very intense.

In the following page, you have Total Sport 2005 in images. A photographic gallery with some of the interesting points but of the fair. The connection, at the end of this article.

To be the first edition of Total Sport, we have been pleasingly surprised, as much by the organization, as by the level of the demonstrations and the attending companies. Without doubt, the next edition of the fair is something that we have already noticeable in our publication agenda.

The participation of the assistants, and in special of the children, has marked the fair. In the image, a young one proves a robot of launching of balls for training of doormen.

One of the things that but we have liked of our visit is that most of stands very they were oriented to the participation of the assistants. There is no boring thing but that a succession of more or less spectacular assemblies, in which the marks are brilliant, but that does not leave to the assistant but option that to walk by the corridors watching. This is a fair of the sport, and the sport practiced in almost any corner of the same one.

The technological breach Javier Martinez, representative of Sanro Electromedicina, did a surprising presentation to me of a brilliant software package that is in charge to analyze the movements of the sportsmen in 3D. In summary, key points in the body of the athlete are marked, so that cameras connected to a computer science equipment capture the movement, and later generates a three-dimensional representation of the athlete being based on the space evolution of the marks. So that surprising? Not by the software in if, which already is known and in versions of other manufacturers also, although one of the strongpoints of this equipment it is that he is very portable, and nonnecisita facilities and special iluminaciones to capture the movement. The surprise came to me from the shock with the reality of this country: the unfolding of this type of herramientes is anecdotal. The causes, unfortunately, are on the one hand the absence of knowledge on the same ones of some of the people in charge of the training centers, and on the other hand, the lack of budget for basic equipment, that it prevents to invest them in things like this. And soon we were frightened if we did not obtain medals in the Olympic Games…

In addition, great amount of sportsmen of elite, in active-duty or retired officers, has participated in the numerous acts of the fair: Joaquin, Deck, Sergio Ramos and Luque have visited stand of Mahou; the equipment Adidas de Atletismo for 2006 has appeared in society, with figures of the stature of Julio Rey, Fabian Roncero or Maite Martinez; Paco Buyo, Llorente or Martin Vázquez have shown their good state of form in the football ground Indoor; Chema Martinez has gathered its number for San Silvestre Vallecana; Alberto Herreros has been challenged in an aid of triples; the runner of mountain bike Jose Antonio Hermida has not been able to resist to prove the simulator of free fall; the power stations of Real Madrid Paco Pavón and Iván Helguera have not stopped to sign autographs; Alex Crivillé has presented/displayed a new game for PlayStation2… And other figures of the sport, like Fernando Romay, Theresa Zabell or Vicente of the Forest, have taken a walk by Total Sport anonymously and relative.

The sport is not other people's to the technology, and we have been able to verify the numerous computer science simulators that complement the training of the sportsmen. , Small and thus greater they have been sent to prove the simulator of Golf, the area of Spinning and the measurer of power in the serves of Tennis. Another spectacular simulator fué the one of free fall, in which with a ventilator that gives single fear with the noise that makes its motor, elevate to you of the ground, simulating that you are in a fall of free parachute.

Total sport has made honor to its name in the numerous championships that are being celebrated during these days. We have been able to see given equipment so much in Soccer as in Basket, arranged to arrive at the end morning; Rollers and Skaters training to all hours to give the best thing in each exhibition; rocódromo has been crowned a infinity of times, the exhibitions of snowboard have been multiplied and the Karts has not stopped to roll nor a single minute. All it so that the 40,000 people who have jammed the fair did not let enjoy the sport at any moment.

Really, a great experience, as much to prove that machine that you do not know if comprarte, to know close by your ídolos of the sport, or to see some of the exhibitions. An inescapable appointment for the next years.

In the following page, you have Total Sport 2005 in images. A photographic gallery with some of the interesting points but of the fair. It presses here to see it.

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Photographic gallery of Total Sport 2005

The fair in images

Multitude of stands with apparatuses of gymnastics of all the types, that we could prove with detailed explanations of the people in charge of the marks.

Although to some, certainly, it does not seem that these apparatuses need to them.

An exhibition of acrobatic jumps of ski.

Sport and road education, united of the hand.

And on bicycles, impressive the Felt, with aesthetic custom. We were examinee with detail the models, and in spite of their air “retro”, has the last technology as far as configurations of changes, brakes, etc.

The children, and the not so young ones, enjoying pretty it the scaling.

The sport of the motor has been very present in the fair. Sony took advantage of to present/display the WRC Rally of its PS2, with the presence of Alex Crivillé. Also there was multitude of PSP to prove.

Some preferred real experiences but, and for it they had to its disposition a track of karts on which to run and to skid.

Others, however, remained halfway between the reality and the fiction, with a magnificent track of Scalextric on which to emulate to Fernando Alonso.

Although to emulate to Fernando Alonso, nothing better than its single-seater.

The Madrilenian Federation of Gymnastics made an impressive exhibition of exercises on the ground.

During the four days championships of basket were celebrated, padel, tennis, soccer…. In our visit Sunday all the end was being celebrated, and we can assure that the struggle was very fought.

The public has gone it of fear. During a rest of the exhibition of gymnastics on the ground, a class of batuca for the assistants was improvised, who did not doubt a little while in putting themselves to exercise muscles.