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Are your feet communicating with your brain when skiing? [new electronic product]
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This year's ispo - the world's greatest sports fair (in Munich) where next year's ski products are launched - will award its innovation prize to a new electronic device which feeds back pressure from the feet to an audio message, to help you ski better. It's based on pressure-sensing insoles in ski boots, linked to a control worn inside the ski jacket, and a pair of headphones.
The product has been developed by a company called Moticon, in conjunction with the University of Munich Faculty of Sports Sciences.
This report by
besportier.com
Quote from ispo press release, by jury member Wolfgang Greiner:
Quote:
“This system has the potential to raise ski instruction to a new level. Together with the ski instructor this system provides an opportunity to optimize instruction, and it is very appropriate for our time, as technology such as MP3 players has become an established part of the winter sports scene.”
Manufacturer's site:
http://www.moticon.de
[German text]
Any views on this?
[ispo is from 7 to 10 February, by the way]
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This looks like a solution in search of a problem, any instructor can immediately see if a student is too far back, has too much weight on the inside ski etc. The only interesting part is the real time feedback.
IMO video is a much better and underutilised tool in ski instruction. This only tells you about the pressure distribution on both your feet and doesn't help anyone learn HOW to get the correct pressure to the skis (eg. counter, angulation of the body, different transitions etc.).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
That occurred to me, too. Maybe ispo is having a quiet year. You do have to learn to feel your feet when skiing, and the body itself is wired to transmit from nerves to brain.
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narc wrote:
This looks like a solution in search of a problem, .).
Ernst Goldsmith wrote:
That occurred to me, too.
the body itself is wired to transmit from nerves to brain.
It looks like a solution for a DIFFERENT problem, for patients who had LOST that "body wiring" between the feet and brain.
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