Jason Harding

Current

• Sports Science Consultant at Anarchist Athlete

Past

• PhD Research Scholar / Sports Science Coordinator for Winter Sport at Australian Institute of Sport
• Quality Assurance Officer at Australian Institute of Sport
• University Educator at Griffith University

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Education

• Griffith University

Recommendations

8 recommendations

Connections

70 connections

Industry

Sports

Websites

• Anarchist Athlete

Jason Harding’s Summary

Jason Harding is a high level surfer and snowboarder. He is also a sport scientist (BEXSC PHD), Sports Science Coordinator and Athletic Performance Consultant formerly affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) and Griffith University’s Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications (GU). Jason’s affiliation with the AIS began in December 2003 when he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship (Quality Assurance) in the Department of Physiology. Jason’s PhD research was focussed on enhancing the competitive performance of Australia’s elite-level snowboard athletes and additionally improving the reliability of judging protocols used in competitive snowboarding. Jason’s performance based research with the Australian snowboard team culminated with the AIS Micro-Tech Pipe Challenge, an elite-level Australian invitational half-pipe snowboarding competition that utilised both traditional subjective judging measures and innovative micro-technology to assess half-pipe snowboarding performance. The event, conducted on July 30th 2007 in collaboration with the Australian snowboarding community, is believed to be the first half-pipe snowboarding competition in the world to utilise automated, objective feedback to award athletic performance. This project won first place in the “Competitive Sports Category in the ISPO Innovation Challenge” in 2008. Jason is the founder of ‘Anarchist Athlete’, a company focused on providing quality performance based knowledge and advice to talented athletes and uses his website www.AnarchistAthlete.com to publish innovative ideas and research outcomes associated with surf, skate and snow sports disciplines. Jason is now based on the Gold Coast and continues to independently conduct projects and publish research focused on performance enhancement and innovative competition judging protocols for board-riding sports.

Jason Harding’s Specialties:

PERFORMANCE BASED PROJECTS
www.AnarchistAthlete.com

PUBLICATIONS
www.AnarchistAthlete.com

TEAM MANAGEMENT
www.AnarchistAthlete.com

SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
anrchistathlete.redbubble.com

CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
jasonharding.redbubble.com

Jason Harding’s Experience

• Sports Science Consultant

  Anarchist Athlete

  (Sports industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Jason Harding is a high level surfer, and snowboarder. He is also a sport scientist (PhD) formerly affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) and Griffith University’s Centre For Wireless Monitoring and Applications (GU). Jason is the founder of ‘Anarchist Athlete’, a company focused on providing quality performance based knowledge and advice to talented athletes.

• PhD Research Scholar / Sports Science Coordinator for Winter Sport

  Australian Institute of Sport

  (Sports industry)

  February 2005 — January 2009 (4 years )

  To provide physiological services and conduct ‘dry land’ training camps for national snowboard and mogul skiing teams
  
  Sports Science Coordinator For Australian Olympic Winter Sport. Co-ordinate access to AIS sport science services for the national Winter Olympic Team
  
  Undertake scientific research focussed on enhancement of Australia’s performance in Winter Olympic sports disciplines
  
  Undertake research centred upon the development and integration of sport-specific micro-technology
  
  Investigate the sport specific performance applications of an inertial sensor based, quantitative feedback system providing information on sport specific ‘key performance variables’

• Quality Assurance Officer

  Australian Institute of Sport

  (Government Agency; Sports industry)

  December 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  To provide continuous departmental commitment towards accurate, precise, and reliable physiological and biochemical testing of Australia’s elite athletes.
  
  To maintain the exercise testing standards set by the Laboratory Standards Assistance Scheme (LSAS), achieved by the Department of Physiology, and demanded by Australia’s best athletes and sports scientists.
  
  To guide and implement new quality assurance programs aimed at raising the standard and reliability of exercise testing within the Department of Physiology, Australian Institute of Sport, and in addition, that required by all exercise physiology laboratories within Australia.

• University Educator

  Griffith University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  Conducted university tutorials and practical laboratory sessions focussed on biophysics, mathematics and neuroscience for first, second and third year university students whilst undertaking his own undergraduate and honours degrees in Exercise Science.

Jason Harding’s Education

• Griffith University

  BEXSC PHD , Sports-Science , 2000 — 2008

Additional Information

Jason Harding’s Websites:

• Anarchist Athlete

Jason Harding’s Interests:

To enhance the policies with which sporting institutes provide support services to athletes To develop elite, sanctioned sporting events that successfully incorporate sport science research, reliable judging criteria and augmented athlete feedback To set up long-term talent identification and novel athlete development pathways for young athletes that maximise their competitive and personal success To enhance the relationship between sport science and athletes striving for success To revolutionise training and competition performance assessment by using technology To vigorously promote extreme sports as legitimate Olympic disciplines and to assist the practice community with control over any introduction To utilise my pasion for art, writing and photography to promote the exploits of elite-level boardriding athletes

Jason Harding’s Groups:

•    Action & Sport Innovators
•    Action Sports Connect
•    Worldwide Snowboarding Network
•    Boardsports
•    Skate Surf Snow
•    Sports Performance Technology
•    Surfers in Technology
•    Sports Performance Analysis

Jason Harding’s Honors:

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

WINNER

ISPO Technological Innovation Challenge – Competitive Sports Category 2007
ISPO Germany

Post Graduate Scholarship (Quality Assurance) 2004
Australian Institute of Sport

Award for Academic Excellence for Studies in the Field of Exercise Science 2003
Griffith University

Award for Academic Excellence for Studies in the Field of Exercise Science (Honours) 2003
Griffith University

Health Group Scholarship 2003
Griffith University

Award for Academic Excellence for Studies in the Field of Exercise Science 2002
Griffith University

CULTURAL AWARDS

WINNER

Club Administrator of the Year 2003
Griffith University

Best Short Film 2003
‘Freedom from Choice’
GUGC Art Prize

Best Short Film 2002
‘Ride’
GUGC Art Prize

Best Photographic Work 2000
‘The Isolation of Ostracism’
GUGC Art Prize

Best Two Dimensional Painting 2000
‘A City of Intoxication’
GUGC Art Prize

Jason Harding’s Contact Settings

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