Events

After tearing his ACL on his 17th birthday, Marcus Elliott cooked up a life plan: he would study incredibly hard and learn to prevent the injuries that ruin sports, just as vaccines and modern cardiac care prevent polio and heart attacks. After Harvard Medical School, the NFL, and MLB, Marcus’s mission came to focus on granular movement data. Having assessed a thousand NBA players, and several thousand professional athletes, his team at P3 is bursting with profound new insight into what makes a great athlete, new training goals, and most importantly: the biomechanics that precede crises like ACL tears. Marcus's story is the subject of Henry Abbott’s new book, Ballistic, which makes its debut here, as Marcus and Henry come together to tell the story of the dataset that is upending athletics.