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PE: Component 1 Task 2: 5 of 8

LAB – examine equipment and technology for participants to use when taking part in sport and physical activity
Category Description Advantages Disadvantages
Clothing • Sports kit, waterproof clothing, training • Clothing to increase performance: improved - Accessibility due to cost
Footwear clothing e.g. bibs thermoregulation, clothing designed to improve - Cost
• Footwear: trainers, studded boots, sport aerodynamics
specific footwear • Footwear: sport specific new designs or
materials leading to better grip, rebound

Sport • Participant equipment: e.g. balls, rackets - New materials for lightness and strength (composite - Accessibility due to cost
Specific Eq • Travel related equipment: e.g. kayak materials. E.g. tennis racket) - Cost
uipment: - Scoring equipment: e.g. goal posts - New designs to improve performance (e.g. golf driver
• Fitness training equipment: e.g. dumbbells – bigger head and more forgiving)

Protection - Mouth guards, helmets, body protection, eye - Improved protection design, lighter weight, improved - Accessibility due to cost
and safety: protection, flotation devices, first aid equipment performance. E.g. shape of cycling helmets to be more - Cost
(bandages, ice packs, defibrillator) aerodynamic
Equipment e.g. wheelchair - Prosthetics, sport specific wheelchairs, equipment to - Accessibility due to cost
for those help those with hearing and visual impairments - Cost
with disabili - Usability (specific training required)
ties:
Facilities: - Indoor sports hall/gyms, outdoor - Stimulate environments to replicate competition in - Accessibility due to cost
pitches, climbing walls, snow domes other locations. E.g all weather pitches - Cost

Officiating e - Whistle, microphone, earpiece - Computer assisted systems, VAR - Accessibility due to cost
quipment: - Cost

Performanc - Smart watches, heart rate monitors, applications - Action cameras, GPS, sensors • Time: setting up, using equipment, compiling
e analysis: on clothing/equipment date, giving feedback to participant
• Access to technology: equality and unfair
advantages as not everyone has technology
• Cost: initial cost is expensive and
maintenance
• Accuracy of data
• Usability: specific training required