Discovery of a Sweet Spot on the Foot with a Smart Wearable Soccer Boot Sensor That Maximizes the Chances of Scoring a Curved Kick in Soccer

This paper provides the evidence of a sweet spot on the boot/foot as well as the method for detecting it with a wearable pressure sensitive device. This study confirmed the hypothesized existence of sweet and dead spots on a soccer boot or foot when kicking a ball. For a stationary curved kick, kick...

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Published inFrontiers in physiology Vol. 9; p. 63
Main Authors Fuss, Franz Konstantin, Düking, Peter, Weizman, Yehuda
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 13.02.2018
Subjects
center of pressure
dead spot
Physiology
pressure sensor
probability of scoring a goal
smart soccer boot
sweet spot
pressure sensor
impact force
smart soccer boot
dead spot
sweet spot
wearable technology
center of pressure
probability of scoring a goal
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Summary:This paper provides the evidence of a sweet spot on the boot/foot as well as the method for detecting it with a wearable pressure sensitive device. This study confirmed the hypothesized existence of sweet and dead spots on a soccer boot or foot when kicking a ball. For a stationary curved kick, kicking the ball at the sweet spot maximized the probability of scoring a goal (58-86%), whereas having the impact point at the dead zone minimized the probability (11-22%). The sweet spot was found based on hypothesized favorable parameter ranges (center of pressure in x/y-directions and/or peak impact force) and the dead zone based on hypothesized unfavorable parameter ranges. The sweet spot was rather concentrated, independent of which parameter combination was used (two- or three-parameter combination), whereas the dead zone, located 21 mm from the sweet spot, was more widespread.
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Reviewed by: Giovanni Messina, University of Foggia, Italy; Filipe Manuel Clemente, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
This article was submitted to Exercise Physiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Physiology
Edited by: Kamiar Aminian, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
ISSN:1664-042X
1664-042X
DOI:10.3389/fphys.2018.00063