http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2009/winter/smart-football.shtml Using the feedback, a person can readjust their own kicking technique, change angles of kicking, striking point Fascinating. How about sticking sensors on the body, arm, wrist, racquet and hand - then get that Fu Hai Feng smash going!!
wouldnt it be easier to get a coach than all the (probably expensive) equipment? i think we would need to get FHF to run a few test smashes using the equipment first in order to have a comparison of our own skills to his. . . .it would be great if we could get it though. any electrical engineers around here ?
[video=youtube;F-m3oNf1Lsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-m3oNf1Lsc&feature=player_embedded[/video]
You know that some people don't listen to the coach There's a story that when Lee Jae Bok went to England, established coaches and players were saying "Is what he is teaching, right?" I know that when the more senior generation of established england coaches were first shown the new syllabus on advanced footwork (which includes balance and rhythm), they were very skeptical. Not all learners respond to the same coach either. So as an aid to coaching, it is quite fascinating. The university is Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.....Fascinating to think "what if" they had the right badminton fanatic just come across that project....
All joking aside, this technology is just a progression of what we've seen in sport over that couple of decades. As technology advances the methods by which feedback is transmitted to the players becomes more and more refined. Personally I don't know if it makes the game any better from the perspective of the fan.
^^ not only feedback to ourselves as a player, but feedback to opponent players... eg. slow mo videos and match video analysis of world class players can now be done by anyone in the world with youtube and an internet connection...
