Practical Application Application
The ONLYWIN portable rotating vestibular simulator (PRVS) is designed for sports organizations and home use. It provides controlled rotation and "speed overtaking effect" in both directions. There are no restrictions for using the simulator to the initial level users, at all stages of training, for beginners and professionals. Trainings with using the ONLYWIN portable rotating vestibular simulator are increasingly enters in the training life of a great number athletes and coaches who have devoted themselves to figure skating.
Similar to the figure skaters training, the use of ONLYWIN simulator is effective for training athletes in many sports with complex coordination types of movement: hockey, roller skating, dancing, ballet, swimming, gymnastics, acrobatics, extreme sports, martial arts. The simulator is used for General physical training and development of special skills:
- Strengthen the vestibular system and improve body coordination;
- Combined growth of coordination, sense of time, balance and height;
- Development of endurance and creating loads on the cardiovascular system;
- Preventive exercises to maintain muscle tone;
- Physiotherapy and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal system functions.
The ONLYWIN rotating vestibular trainer can be used in figure skating as a basic one. With its help, skaters increase vestibular stability, improve grouping in jumping elements, work out variations in positions, transitions and rotations, raising their skills of complex body work for the step sequence and the entire program as a whole. Rotation is the most common type of movement in figure skating: the entire athlete’s body, body parts, sliding or jumping. Figure skaters are the leaders in the spin numbers and durations among other sports.
The start of the rotating vestibular simulators using among figure skaters is the merit of the outstanding coach Aleksey Nicolaevich Mishin and his colleagues. They have made a significant contribution to the popularization of vestibular stability training in figure skating. Vestibular rotating simulators have become known as a highly effective tool in modern training of skaters. Aleksey Nicolaevich Mishin's efforts are highly appreciated at the international level. Rotating vestibular simulators are often called "Mishin's simulator" among figure skaters. The result of joint work of Aleksey Nicolaevich Mishin and Victor Aleksandrovich Shapiro became a scientific work in the field of figure skating and the book "Figure skating as a space flight". The book describes the history and problems of figure skating development from the point of view of the development of athletes and high sports achievements. Attention is paid to the methods of training athletes, analysis and construction of physical and mathematical models of complex coordination movement of skaters, special training complexes, software and hardware measuring tools, methodology for measuring movement parameters and evaluating the athlete’s conditions. Physical training of cosmonauts and figure skaters was considered as an analogy.
Figure skating is becoming an increasingly popular and widespread sport. Along with the growing attention to figure skating, the requirements for technique are increasing and the rules are becoming more complex. The time favorable for creating the Foundation of sports achievements in figure skating is so short, the level of training up to 10-12 years practically determines the future of figure skaters. Sometimes children are put on skates at 4-5 years old in order to have time to discover and develop their potential. An effective alternative is to increase the effectiveness of training with a rotating vestibular simulator.
The systematic use of the vestibular rotating simulator has a synergistic effect. The efficiency of the joint work of the coach and the athlete is growing. The mastery of new elements is accelerated, with centrifugal loads the athlete often intuitively understands and feels how to correct the position of the body; the coach spends less time on typical explanations, concentrating on the execution technique and new elements. Athletes increase their agility, improve coordination, and develop a sense of balance and timing. Practicing rotations and jumps on the simulator significantly reduces the risk of injury on the ice. Athletes can spend more time for an ice work and choreographic training. Machine work increases overall endurance and allows for richer endings. Using the simulator before ice training allows you to significantly reduce the warm-up time on the ice, before performances, it allows you to quickly mobilize an athlete for the most effective skating. In the context of mastering new choreographic programs, the simulator provides the ability to practice most of the elements of choreography off the ice, simplifies and accelerates the new programs mastering.
The popularity of using rotating vestibular simulators, due to the obvious need to develop athlete’s vestibular stability in many sports is growing now. Some coach’s conservativeness and doubts, subjective assessments, highly competitive environment, lack of experience and myths about the complexity of the application are temporary limits for effective solutions.
The simulator is successfully used in traditional skater training. It perfectly complements conservative and innovative techniques as well.
The mass application is more significantly affected by the availability of the simulator. Our team has organized mass production of simulators to optimize the cost. Today the ONLYWIN simulator price is comparable to the price of good skates. The small size and low weight of the simulator provide a mobile format of the device, and allow it to be used in a limited training space of sports buildings, at home, at field training camps and competitions. Intuitive operation of the simulator with the only single control - a rotating selector with indication of speed and direction of rotation indication on a bright display allows the trainer to fully focus on the athlete.