Ramky
Founder
Sports Mechanics
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SportsMechanics, the current performance analysts of multiple Indian teams, including cricket, hockey,
boxing, athletics, weight lifting, table tennis, volleyball & squash, is a sports technology company
headquartered at Chennai. Our primary focus is Team and Player Performance Analysis and other value
added services to sports organisations with regard to fan engagement. We have been specializing in this
field in a wide range of sports. With our experience and expertise we have worked with many national
teams and federations on a wide range of services over the years.
Ramakrishnan (Ramky) was a passionate cricketer during his playing days. He had another passion that
few knew – technology. And this combination is what made him aspire to create solutions that will
enable teams & players to perform to their best. While our country has been the land of many
technological innovations for many industries, sports has been one that has been left behind. Ramky
wanted this changed. He wanted India to shine in the arena of sports technology as well just as we do in
other arenas. Post his playing days, this passion made him start SportsMechanics – typical silicon valley
style – from his garage. Started in 2006 with 4 employees, SportsMechanics is now a team of 55. It has
grown to a stage where many people consider SportsMechanics as a dream destination.
SportsMechanics has been in the space of sports technology from 2006. Since then we have managed to
integrate the world of sports with technology to provide feedback to players, coaches, team
managements, fans and administrators with increased speed, accuracy and conciseness. It all started
with Ramky’s dream of bringing in scientific methods for coaching purposes. When the coaching
methodologies were taken stock of, it was shocking to note that not much had changed from the
yesteryears. As the game has become more athletic, and training methodologies for physical fitness
have improved drastically, why not the skill acquisition & coaching part? With increased competition
and the nature of cricket itself changing, it was imperative that scientific methodologies need to be
introduced sooner than later to ensure that our young cricketers are also coached the right way. It was
this thought process that made Ramky take up video analysis in a major way. Starting with simple video
analysis, Ramky kept innovating and introduced many technology-based solutions to make the entire
process smoother and more efficient. Slowly, video-based performance analysis was done for players
and one such initial break was the MRF Pace foundation. After that, SportsMechanics got the
opportunity to be the ‘performance analysts’ with the Indian Cricket Team – first time such a word was
ever used! Since joining the Indian cricket team in 2003, the performances of the team has become more consistent and has been of the rise – winning the T20 world cup, reaching #1 ranking in tests &
winning the ODI world cup. In addition to cricket, SportsMechanics forayed into other sports by working
with 5 Indian contingents at the Olympic Games.
Another off-shoot of SportsMechanics is the SportsMentor.tv platform. The platform itself aims to
bridge the gap between the player and his coach. Today we are in a world where millions of dollars of
business is done using the internet & other technologies. If so much can be achieved in the sphere of
business, why not in sports? SM.tv intends to bring the entire sporting community under one virtual roof
where knowledge exchange and learning happens. The platform offers e-learning capabilities to players,
Coaches and Institutions to effectively govern, manage, analyze, and report development and goal
achievement for individual players and the team as a whole. Upcoming cricketers will be able to choose
a mentor from the SM panel and get advice from them. With many more features like a training
scheduling calendar, personal channel where a cricketer can broadcast these videos to his community of
people, and so on, SM intends to be a holistic solution to an aspiring cricketer rather than just be an
online coaching manual. The objective was to come up with a platform which offers a cricketer all the
necessary tools to hone his skills and improve in an accelerated manner. The platform has been built for
the benefit of the entire cricketing fraternity by a group of cricket fanatics.
Today, the solutions provided by SportsMechanics to teams (starting from the Indian cricket team to
many IPL teams), organisations & players is appreciated world over. It is noteworthy that many premier
institutions (like ICC & SAI) and premier coaches consider the solutions provided by SportsMechanics to
be the best in the world. A dream of converging 2 passions – technology and sports – is a journey. But it
can be said with a lot of confidence that Ramky & SportsMechanics are on enroute to achieving their
dream!