Tech in Bio-Mech

December 2nd, 2009 | GEL Golf, Padraig Harrington, Quintic Ball Roll, Quintic Video Software, Rory McIlory

Padraig Harrington and Rory McIlroy may be the stars but Dr. Paul Hurrion has helped both from behind the scenes. By Roger Valberg

Malaysian Golf Digest : November 2009

f you have never heard of Dr. Paul Hurrion, it is no surprise. He is rarely in Asia and even then his work is strictly in the background of the many professionals he helps at his Quintic Labs. If the old maxim of ‘drive for show and putt for dough’ has any truth in it, then this is the man you’d want in your corner. But calling him merely a putting guru is like saying Bill Gates is merely a rich man. There is so much more going on in that head that has shored up Padraig Harrington’s putting so much so that he won three majors and helped Rory McIlroy take his maiden win this year.

It takes a certain kind of human being to not only be able to be an authority on putting, a dark art if there ever was one, but to also establish a company that rolls out putters based on his research. Dr. Hurrion has also ventured into the realms of training aides to help the average golfer. To top it all off, he also advises and assists other athletes in sports other than golf. The base of his work centres around bio-mechanics.

“Sports biomechanics uses the scientific methods of mechanics to study the effects of various forces on the sports performer. Therefore, in short it tells you why something has happened. It is part of the overall picture of sports performance,” explained Dr. Hurrion.

“Biomechanics focuses on the forces that act on the human neuro-musculoskeletal system, velocities, accelerations, torque, momentum, and inertia. It also considers aspects of the behavior of sports implements, footwear and surfaces where these affect athletic performance or injury prevention,” he added.

The subject though is wide and it can be divided up into two sections: Performance Improvement & Injury Prevention. His Quintic Labs work on research for questions that an athlete may ask. “What is the best run-up for a high jumper? How should the knee angle be modified for the delivery stride of a fast bowler in cricket? What is the velocity of the swimmer after the tumble turn?

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Westwood crowned king in Dubai

November 23rd, 2009 | Lee Westwood, PGA European Tour Golfers, Padraig Harrington, Rory McIlory

Congratulations to Lee Westwood after a nerveless final round 64 secured a six shot victory and with it ‘The Race to Dubai’ title for 2009. The putter was certainly working over the weekend… The hard work is certainley starting to pay off!

Westwood, who led by two overnight, produced the finest round of his career to take the €830,675 first prize at the Earth course that also secured his status as European Number One for the second time in his career. With his second victory on The European Tour this season, the win moves Westwood up to World Number Four in the Official World Golf Rankings, matching his highest career position. To cap it all, his closing 64 was also a new course record on the Greg Norman-designed venue.

Congratulations also to Ross McGowan with his second place finish opens up a whole new scheduale for him next year. Ross has also worked hard on his putting and with the ‘palms together grip’. Ross carded a final round 68, including five straight birdies from the 12th, to hold on to second place on 17 under par after a sustained charge from Rory McIlroy, who fired five birdies on his back nine before bogeying the par five 18th to sign for a 67 and with it third place place on 15 under par as well as second in The Race to Dubai.

“I have no complaints. I gave it my best shot and it’s been a great season, but Lee is just in a different class,” said McIlroy, who gains a place in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings despite finishing runner up in The Race to Dubai.  “Most times coming here leading and then finishing third would be good enough [to win The Race to Dubai], but even if I’d played well I’m not sure I could have got to 23 under!

Further down the leaderboard on tied 4th was Padraig Harrington, so all in all, it was a very exciting weekend watching the top 4 putt there way around the Earth Course. What do they say, Drive for Show, Putt for Dough…

Congratulations once again Lee, you certainley rolled a few in!

Lee Westwood
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 09: Lee Westwood of England lines up his putt on the par five 18th hole during the first round of the Dubai World Championship on the Earth Course, Jumeriah Golf Estates on November 19, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

Harrington’s Bionic Swing…

May 16th, 2009 | Full Swing Biomechanics, Padraig Harrington

Padraig Harrington has gone bionic in his attempt to create golf’s perfect swing.

The three-time Major winner has been using biomechanics and kinetic sequencing to make himself an even greater player.

It is one reason why the Irish star’s wife Caroline, coach Bob Rotella and caddy Ronan Flood lectured him on becoming too technical. They fear Harrington, famously obsessive about detail, has been going too far in his quest for new greatness.

Harrington admitted: “I have been working with an expert called Dr Paul Hurrion on biomechanics. This has been a collaboration between myself, my coach Bob Torrance and my swing adviser in the USA, Bob Rotella.

“The great thing is that I don’t completely rely on what I am being told in terms of biomechanics. “Bob Torrance has an incredible eye and can see what I need to be doing. When he spots something that has to be worked on, we alert the biomechanics guys and we build a programme to match what Bob Torrance wants to see me doing.” The field of biomechanics has become more and more important to the game’s biggest stars.

It analyses and improves a player’s swing using the kind of statistical and 3D motion capture technology used in movie animation. Fitness and swing coach Marc Wahl said: “Tiger Woods is so good that he has made everybody else search for that extra five per cent here, and another five per cent there that can get them closer to him.”

Another player who has become involved in the appliance of this science is Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell - and weeks after he was wired up at 12 different points of his body he won the Tavistock Cup. And Henrik Stenson, who blew away the field at Sawgrass last week to win with a sensational final round of 66, started using biomechanics the week before The Masters.

The worry for Harrington’s wife and advisers is that he focused too much on the technicalities. I can see why that might be a concern. But Padraig is working with Dr Paul Hurrion, who is perhaps the best in the world in this field.

“No golfer, especially not one as brilliant as Padraig, wants to make himself a robot.

“What I do say is that greater understanding of how the body works will give anybody a better swing and down the line, even if it has not happened so far, Padraig should emerge even better. You only have to look at Stenson to see what can be possible.”

Padraig Harrington - 3D TPI software

 

By Ken Lawrence 17/05/2009
http://www.mirror.co.uk:80/news/top-stories/2009/05/17/harrington-s-bionic-swing-115875-21365350/

Guru’s gadgetry helps Padraig Harrington prepare for Augusta

April 6th, 2009 | Padraig Harrington, Putting Biomechanics

by Peter Dixon
The Times - Monday 6th April 2009

You could call it the appliance of science. One reason why Padraig Harrington is the possessor of three major championships and one of the few players comfortable going head-to-head with Tiger Woods.

And it is why Dr Paul Hurrion, Harrington’s putting coach, thinks the Irishman is every bit as good as Woods on the greens and why he believes his man has every chance of winning the Masters that gets under way at Augusta on Thursday.

“There’s no question that he is in Tiger’s class,” Hurrion said. “And the tougher the test, the better it is for him because some of the others tend to give up.” As everybody knows, there is no test tougher than the ice-fast, sloping greens of Augusta. But it is Hurrion - a biomechanist by profession - whose scientific approach to the game within a game has helped to turn Harrington from a very good putter into a great one.

Who, for instance, could forget the way in which the Irishman took the USPGA Championship from under the nose of Sergio García last year with a putting display from out of this world? In his final round he took only 26 putts and had single putts on eight of the last nine greens, every one of them like a blow to the Spaniard’s solar plexus. “It was when all the hard work paid off,” Hurrion said. “It was perfect, the moment when everything came together.”

We are talking at Hurrion’s base, more like laboratory, in a small village in the Midlands, part of an annexe to a house within its own grounds. The only clue that a player with two Opens and one USPGA Championship to his name has been there are the framed and signed flags from each of the majors Harrington has won.

Hurrion, at 37 the same age as the Open champion, describes biomechanics as the science of human movement. He has worked with Jonny Wilkinson, Steve Backley, and the Great Britain bobsleigh team. He is on the International Cricket Council panel that assesses the action of bowlers suspected of throwing.

He has been with Harrington since 2002 and uses all the technology at his disposal to analyse every aspect of the player’s putting. He has high-speed cameras and specially-designed computer software that gives instant feedback on such things as head, shoulder and body movement. The aim, he explains, is to create an efficient, repeatable stroke that works every time.

His cameras record up to 2,000 frames per second and show in the minutest detail how the ball comes off the face of the putter. What the naked eye cannot pick up, the cameras certainly will. If, say, the putter cuts across the ball at impact it will impart side spin that will affect the direction in which it moves.

There are four cameras in all, one to the side, one straight on to show the path the putter takes, one at shoulder height to show how the shoulders move and one above the head. There is also a pressure pad under the feet that indicates how the weight shifts through the stroke. The more the body moves, the more manipulation of the putter head will be needed - and that is the path to inconsistency. “We are looking for perfect symmetry and control, aiming to hit it out of the middle every time,” Hurrion said.

Some of the key areas on which he works with Harrington are posture, stance, balance and stability. The aim is to create a pendulum motion that keeps the putter head as close to the ground as possible. The higher off the ground, Hurrion explains, the greater the margin for error.

Harrington’s unquenchable thirst for improvement means that he knows exactly where to look if things start to go awry. “If you have an eight-foot putt for birdie and it misses left edge, you need to know why,” Hurrion said. “What you need to ask is: Did it miss left edge because I aimed there? Have I pulled it? Have I hit it not quite quick enough and not taken the break out of the putt? Have I just misread it? Did it hit a spike mark or has the wind blown it off course? All of a sudden there are half a dozen variables and unless you can tell the difference, you’re stuck.”

All of which brings to mind García, who had just such a putt for victory in the Open Championship at Carnoustie in 2007 and who stood agog when the ball “lipped” out. It opened the door for Harrington, who went on to claim his first major in the four-hole play-off that ensued.

Watching García on the practice green at the CA Championship in Miami, Florida, recently, it looked as if he has learnt nothing in the interim. It was not so much that he missed the vast majority of the putts he took from about nine feet but the way in which he missed them, with half of them going to the left and half going to the right.

With good technique comes mental toughness. “It’s tough to be positive if you know that your technique is not really good enough to deal with what you are about to face,” Hurrion said. “Is your technique good enough to repeatedly hit the ball on the lines you have read? If you do it wrong, the record books will show you are not as good as you think you are.”

In Harrington, Hurrion has found a hard taskmaster. “After each session you come away with more questions than you have answered,” Hurrion said. “I lie awake in bed at night thinking about it. Then I’ll text him an answer if he’s travelling and he’ll send one back saying, ‘Yep, I’ll try that.’

“The sessions could easily last all day and there are times when you think, ‘Geez I need a break.’ But that’s what makes a major champion. And that’s why our work is done for the Masters.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article6040490.ece

Padraig Harrington’s major success is mainly in the mind…

April 5th, 2009 | Padraig Harrington, Putting Biomechanics

By Mark Reason
Sunday Telegraph 5th April 2009

Padraig Harrington is a mind apart. Vijay Singh hits ball after ball until his hands are like strips of leather left out to dry in the Fijian sun. Harrington practises thinking, rerunning the same thought time after time, just as he would hit 100 short putts in a row.

The winner of the previous two majors has learned a ruthless sporting intelligence to compare with even the great Tiger Woods.

Silver lining: Padraig Harrington with the US PGA trophy

The other week in America Harrington was answering a few questions as he walked the quarter of a mile from the practice bunker to the practice ground. Harrington was talking about how distractions are a benefit to golfers, how people who have just got married or just had kids often experience a surge in form.

I wondered how much the birth of Patrick in 2003 had contributed to his own surge in form, how much the birth of a son had inspired him to be an “overachiever”. As soon as the awful word was out, there was no scooping it back. Harrington said nothing for a moment. He continued signing autographs, but already he seemed to have walked away.

“Overachiever” is a daft sporting cliché. It is applied to people who reach heights that their physical talents may initially suggest are beyond them.

But why not flip it around and call John Daly, the winner of an Open and a PGA, an overachiever? The American has won two majors and has wonderful physical gifts, but besides Harrington he is a mental pygmy.

Maybe Harrington is still an underachiever. Paul Hurrion has been Harrington’s putting coach since the pair met on a green in Spain at the end of 2002 and continues to be astonished by the Irishman’s attention to detail.

There are flags from each of Harrington’s three major victories on the wall of Hurrion’s putting lab and he believes there are more to come.

Two weeks ago Hurrion flew to Dublin to work on Harrington’s putting ahead of the Masters. He got in on Wednesday evening and at midnight Harrington was still hitting putts, still asking questions, to many of which Hurrion did not have answers.

Hurrion says: “Even now, after seven years, I will receive more questions than I can answer. One of Padraig’s gifts is the mental. But that doesn’t just come. He works just as hard at that as anything else. People don’t fully appreciate that. It’s not a five-minute job.”

For many players, putting is an art. For the world’s best – and Hurrion nominates them as Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington, Justin Leonard and David Howell – putting is more of a science.

Harrington has worked thousands of hours with Hurrion so that he can release the putter blade square each time. He does not want variables in his stroke, like head movement or an unstable pivot point. And for that half a millisecond when the putter is in contact with the ball, he wants the centre of gravity of the blade to meet the centre of gravity of the ball.

It is not an art, it is an exact science. Understand the science and then you can get creative with things like visualisation. Woods makes a mental movie of the ball tracking into the hole. But Tiger can do that with confidence only because he has near-perfect technique.

Harrington believes that putting, along with strategy, is one of the two keys to winning the Masters. He says: “You’ve got to be in top form with your putter the week of Augusta to be in contention. You can hit a good putt at Augusta from an awkward spot, and if you’ve got it to six feet you’re happy, whereas on a regular flat green if you’re outside two feet you’d be disappointed.”

Mental toughness allied to brilliant technique has brought Harrington to the third leg of the so-called Paddy Slam. It makes him more likely than anyone else in the game other than Woods to keep holing those six footers. Great putting is the aspect of the game that separates the multiple major winners from the rest.

So how would Harrington relish coming down the stretch next Sunday, one of only three men still in with a chance, the other two being Woods and Mickelson. He says: “I wouldn’t be a bit comfortable, but I’d be loving it. I’d be nervous as hell. The shots you have to hit there are so intimidating, so precise, and I’d be panicking big time, but I’d also be loving and relishing the idea.”

But ask Harrington specifically about winning the third leg of the Paddy Slam and his tone changes. He recites monotonously: “If you said to me I’m going to miss the cut at this Masters and win the Masters next year, I’d be very happy with that.”

Harrington has practised that thought and practised that speech and he just keeps hitting it out there, like another practice ball, into the deep blue yonder.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/5099189/Padraig-Harringtons-major-success-is-mainly-in-the-mind.html

Padraig named PGA Player of the year

December 18th, 2008 | Padraig Harrington

Padraig has been named PGA player of the year. He is only the fourth player to win the British Open and PGA Championship in the same season. He is the first European player to win the PGA Tour award since it began in 1990.

“It has been a fantastic season individually out there, winning a couple of majors. At the time you win them, you certainly feel that nothing could compare to it. But to be honest, there is no greater accolade than to receive an award from your peers.”

“Because it’s the players, because it’s my peers, because they’re people that I care and am concerned about their opinions deeply, for them to choose me as their player of the year is very special,” Padraig said. “It compares equally to winning a major championship.”

Padraig was also named the European Tour Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. He also won the Irish PGA in 2008 for his 16th international victory.

Congratulations Padraig from all at Quintic.

Padraig Harrington - 300fps Driver

October 20th, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Full Swing Biomechanics, Padraig Harrington, Quintic Video Software

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Hi-Tec CDT wins GOLF EUROPE Product Award 2008

October 8th, 2008 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Full Swing Biomechanics, Hi-Tec, Padraig Harrington, Quintic Video Software

Global sports and outdoor footwear manufacture HI-TEC are proud winners of the Golf Europe Product Awards 2008 presented yesterday at the Golf Europe Exhibition, Germany. Judged by leading industry experts the HI-TEC Pure Power WPi scooped top prize at this years prestigious awards only open exclusively to innovative products scheduled for market introduction in 2009.

The brand new HI-TEC Pure Power WPi is a revolution in golf footwear, never seen before! Featuring HI-TEC’s exclusive CDT game enhancement technology, developed in partnership with Quintic Consultancy and world number 4 and 3 time major winner Padraig Harrington, this style continues to prove that winning power does come from your feet!

The Pure Power WPi also features the worlds first in nano technology - ion-mask™. ion-mask™ is a brand new, earth friendly, scientific advancement that works on a molecular level to repel water and other liquids, ensuring your footwear stays lighter, dryer and cleaner for longer, without changing the original properties of the material.

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Secrets of Success - Want to putt better? Then don’t forget your lipstick

September 18th, 2008 | GEL Golf, Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington

Biomechanics mastermind Dr Paul Hurrion reveals how to make a difference to your putting.

As vital putts start to drop for the European Ryder Cup team at Valhalla, Kentucky, tomorrow (Friday) no one will be watching the action more closely than Paul Hurrion, writes Graham Otway.

Based at Quintic, near Birmingham, Hurrion, a specialist in sports biomechanics, is the mastermind behind the putting techniques used by Padraig Harrington and Lee Westwood.

One of the keys to turning Harrington into a player capable of winning three of the last five golfing majors has been to persuade the Irishman to switch to the left-handunder- right putting method.

But getting his pupils to develop the body posture and cut down excessive body movement in the putting stroke has turned Hurrion into one of the most sought-after short-game gurus in the UK.

Lack of movement is the key to successful putting, says Hurrion, who began his career as a sport scientist analysing fast bowlers in cricket.

“Keeping the head still is important,” he says. “Players should not look up until after the ball has been struck.

“When they take up their putting stance it’s also vital that the eyes are directly over the ball — it helps align the putter correctly and visualise the line on which a putt should be struck.”

Making sure the putter has been fitted correctly is important, too. At the time of address the club lies flat on the ground. “If the toe is in the air, the putter’s loft is altered and the ball will almost certainly drift to the left.”

Hurrion has begun to market his own range of GEL putters, which have been designed to marry up with the biomechanics of putting.

“But,” he says, “becoming successful on greens is very much down to the golfer and how much work they are prepared to put into the game.

“Putting should be part of a routine. For instance, by marking a club face with lipstick when practising, golfers can make sure they are hitting the ball with the same part of the putter face.

“Things like that make a difference — more than just turning up to play a round, hitting a few putts on the practice green and then expecting to hole everything.”

http://www.telegraphgolfclub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128:want-to-putt-better-then-dont-forget-your-lipstick&catid=3:secrets-of-success&Itemid=13

Graham Otway - The Daily Telegraph - Telegraph Golf Club page of the Sports section 18th September 08

Harrington’s putting coach tells us about his short game approach

August 22nd, 2008 | Padraig Harrington

Harrington’s putting coach tells us about his short game approach
By Gary Van Sickle
Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
Published: August 21, 2008

www.si.com

Remember all those putts that Padraig Harrington holed on the final nine of the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills? Meet Dr. Paul Hurrion, a bio-mechanics expert who is Harrington’s putting coach. In the world of golf instruction, he’s become the next big thing. He serves as a putting guru for half a dozen other European tour players and also has his own signature line of putters available from www.GELGolf.com

I thought I might learn something about Harrington or putting, or both, so I called his office in England. Here are some highlights of our conversation:

SI: I’m surprised there aren’t more guys like you who analyze putting, considering what a big part of the game it is.

Hurrion: “It’s a very good thing for me. I don’t want to point a finger at the PGA, but in the UK, our PGA manual was maybe two inches thick on how to teach the golf swing — 200-plus pages on full swing golf instruction - and you’re lucky if there are four pages on how to teach putting… It has changed a little over the years, but there hasn’t been a systematic approach with grip and posture and alignment for putting. It’s more about feeling comfortable over the putt, and comfortable isn’t always optimal.”

SI: How did a former cricket player like yourself get into analyzing putting?

Hurrion: “I’ve always liked golf. I played mostly cricket and other athletics, but I had a bad injury so I started playing more golf. I got down to scratch about the time I got my Ph. D. I was interested in howthe ball reacts to the putter face. We developed software so we can analyze movements. You know how you see a ball hit with a driver in super slow-motion, and the ball compresses and the face caves? I did the same thing with a wedge and sand irons, and when I did it with a putter, I went, geez, hold on a second. I had to check to make sure the camera was correct. The ball was on the putter face for less than a millisecond. I did a study for Yes Golf back in 2000 when they first came out with their C-grooved putter. Grooves do work; they have an impact on ball roll. But how you’re holding the club has far more influence over the ball than the grooves, or even the putter. I’d say it’s 90-percent user, 10-percent club.”

SI: So if I’m putting poorly it’s my fault.

Hurrion: “No question. Professional golfers are great at disassociating. It’s not them. It’s always the putter or the green or the spike marks. But when you look at the numbers, it comes down to you, I’m afraid.”

SI: What did you think of those putts Padraig holed on the last three holes of the PGA? Two of them were pretty difficult. If he misses those, Sergio Garcia still wins.

Hurrion: “Definitely. I think Padraig one-putted eight greens on the back nine, had 26 putts for the round. That’s what we have worked to do, take the manipulation out of his stroke. If you’ve got any manipulation on that stroke, whether it’s body or hands, it’s not good. When it comes down to that moment of impact, about half a millisecond, there’s not much room for error, I’m afraid. “That back nine, once he got that look in his eyes, he was clearly in the zone, totally focused on what he was doing. We just worked so diligently on setup and posture and the club fitting him. He’s not thinking about that, he’s solely into reading the putts, trusting the line and letting it go. The great testament to me was last year at Carnoustie. He never even went on the putting green during the week. He was so happy with his putting he was like, leave it alone, just hit a couple of putts and go to the tee.”

SI: How’d you get together?

Hurrion: “At Valderrama in 2002. I had some footage of him. We were introduced through a mutual friend, Harold Swash. I was a relative unknown at the time in the golfing world. I didn’t have a pedigree or anything in golf, my previous work had been in athletics and cricket. I just said, this is what we’re seeing. He was interested, and in January 03, Padraig came over for a day and away we went.”

SI: He seems to have a mechanical approach to the game.

Hurrion: “Yes, he leaves no stone unturned in his approach.”

SI: What was his putting stroke like before you met?

Hurrion: “It was very good. He was very high on the stats in Europe. He was a good putter. People said, how can you improve on Padraig, he’s one of the best out there? Well, you take the manipulation out of the stroke. If you do that, you’ve got a chance to repeat the stroke. He had a lot of moving body parts. It mimics his full swing as well, rocking back on the heels. One of first things we did was make his stance wider, to give him a stable base. That was a quick fix to reduce manipulation. It’s not the end answer because the wider you go, the lower the sternum gets and the less fluid the stroke becomes. You have to fix the body physically.”

SI: You mean work out?

Hurrion: “Absolutely, no question.

SI: You need to work out to putt?

Hurrion: “Yeah, it’s a strength exercise. You’ve only got to look at Tiger and see how still he stands over a ball.”

SI: That makes sense, but you’re the first guy I’ve ever heard say that.

Hurrion: “I’m coming at it from a physics standpoint of how can you repeat something. It takes half a millisecond, and if your hips are rocking and rolling, it’s very tough. You need strength to stay still.”

SI: How long before Padraig’s stroke got to where you wanted it?

Hurrion: “It’s a work in progress. There’s more to come. You never stop. The moment you stop, everyone goes by you. He can still get better.”

SI: How much better can he putt than he did at the PGA?

Hurrion: “I’ve got my homework to do. Padraig sent me a list of all the putts he wants me to look at from the PGA. I record everything and then I can analyze it later. He wants me to look at good ones and bad ones. He wants me to create a database that we can always refer back to.”

SI: Like the putts at 16 and 18?

Hurrion: “The one at 16 was very impressive. It kept his momentum going.”

SI: SO he really approaches the game from a scientific standpoint?

Hurrion: “I describe it as a business standpoint. If you run a business, you ask, what do I need to improve and succeed? You analyze everything and figure it out. Everyone plays their little part, and if they all keep improving, you end up being successful. Padraig has worked incredibly hard to get everything he’s gotten.”

SI: So what’s it like to play a small part in winning three major championships?

Hurrion: “It’s very satisfying. There are more to come, no question. The great thing to me is, Padraig will still keep working.” He can & will win more majors!



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