"Nike Obtains Patent for Data Collecting Clubs and Shoes"

[lia41985]

This patent would remove that uncertainty by using accelerometers and gyroscopes to measure as many as 100 data points to record such measurements as the angle of the club face, Nike said.

Nike Obtains Patent for Data Collecting Clubs and Shoes - Bloomberg

 

[Brian Manzella]

Awesome!

Sounds to be something like the BLAST technology.

Anyhoo, the info the better, and all the BS will one day fade away.....

 

[Jared Willerson]

That is pretty wild. I can't imagine the research possibilities.

 

[Frans@France]

Sounds to be something like the BLAST technology.

no it's not. quote from the patent:

- collecting angular rate data from three gyroscopes located within a golf club head..........
- and reconstructing at least a portion of the data that is determined to be saturated based upon known factors relating to angular velocities of the club head during a swing.......
- utilizing a second-order polynomial function to calculate data points over a time period between the first time-frame and the second time frame of the saturation event

The club head may further include software and/or hardware that perform computer-executed methods for determining one or more swing parameters. In one embodiment, a club head may include a display device for displaying the swing parameter(s).

seems to me a reaction to the Mizuno DNA system.

 

[mgranato]

Don't the clubs have to be used for this to be useful?

 

[Scott P]

TaylorMade has been playing around with the idea as well.