Ladislav Pataki (June 20, 1946 – April 5, 2007) was an American coach, sports scientist, and masters track and field thrower.
He successfully introduced the Stanford University/SyberVision film-to-brain elite athlete training program into the USA Olympic training regimen at Colorado Springs, CO. Dr. Pataki, the highest ranking sport scientist to defect from the Soviet Union, believed the SyberVision methodology (the ability to capture pure athletic skills on video and edit them in such a way that the viewer's body and "muscle memory" responded as if the viewer was physically performing the repetitive skill/action presented on the video) was more advanced and effective than the elite athlete training methodology used in the Soviet Union.
After SyberVision, in 1990 he continued his sports science career influencing the training of a group of world-class throwers who were competing in shot put, discus, and hammer throw.
(Nearby San Jose State University had been nicknamed Speed City during its period of track and field success in the 1960s.
[7] Pataki won world championships and set several records as a masters athletics (track and field) competitor in shot put, discus, and weight pentathlon.