Nutrition is increasingly recognized as an important part of an optimal sports performance. Nutritional strategy is a common term amongst elite athletes of almost any sport. Athletes use a range of nutrition strategies to improve their performance. These strategies...
Nutritional Strategy Elite Showjumping Horse
The Equine AI
The goal is to evaluate the feasibility of developing a laser system (LiDAR) to objectify dressage scores given by judges during competitions. The equestrian sports industry is in need of an objective way to analyze performance of horse and rider. Most important...
Horse specific physical test
The goal of this project is to develop a test with which we can evaluate the physical capabilities of a horse based on both practical and scientific knowledge. Currently, such a physical test only exists for riders, the human athlete physical capacity test. We use...
Performance Assessment of Saddle Trees:
Stübben Saddle Evaluation
In this intriguing project we are working with Stübben to evaluate the effect of the saddle tree on a horse’s jumping performance. The main component of this project is to look at comparisons between saddle tree designs to make new and interesting discoveries about...
Development of a Trainer-Coach
Curriculum for the Equestrian Sport
Trainers and coaches are an essential part of an athlete’s success and thus having access to well-trained professionals is of utmost importance for the improvement of any sport. The goal of this project is to establish a continuous learning curve for trainer-coaches...
KNHS competition sport acceptance
mark for bridles and bits
The goal of this project is to develop a competition sport acceptance mark for bridles and bits for the Dutch equestrian federation, KNHS. The Dutch federation gets many questions regarding the allowance of new bridles and bits in competitions. They subjectively...
Using data science on phone sensor data to objectify the equestrian “Eye of the Master”
The goal of the project is to formalise the ‘eye of the master’ through technological innovation, thus making the judgement of performance more transparent and less subjective. Currently, the level and performance of the rider and horse are often judged...
Show Jumping Competition Analysis
The goal is to research valuable performance indicators for Show Jumping competitions that can be used to feeds into training and preparing for future competitions. We develop a tool that allows us easily to transfer mobile videos - e.g. send by Whatsapp - into data....
Coach 5 Inspiration Day From data to performance – “Zwembaddag”
The goal of this project is to develop content for an interesting knowledge sharing event on the use of data in the equestrian sports, specifically for Coach 5 (and obviously Coach 6 as well) classified KNHS instructors. A licensed Coach 5 has made the crossover to...
Specific rider physical test (off-horse)
The purpose of this research is to develop a first test protocol for testing the physique of riders on physical capacities needed for horse riding (rider-specific). Aiding in understanding the sport specific physical requirements. At EquInnoLab. we already have...
Standardisation of equestrian 2D motion analysis reporting for riders
Comparative work is very important in the world of science. While performing motion analysis / kinematic analysis, we want to present the findings in a standardised report. Additionally, we want to be able to learn more from the field. To gather more data while...
Development of the EquInnoLab Portal MVP
We believe in building a community. And all that we do is about knowledge and decision making. This project is to build the fundament for this community, and to have a data and social platform for everyone. Customer engagement, being in continuous touch with our...