TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fuss, Franz Konstantin
A1  - Düking, Peter
A1  - Weizman, Yehuda
T1  - 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
JF  - Frontiers in Physiology
N2  - 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.
KW  - smart soccer boot
KW  - pressure sensor
KW  - sweet spot
KW  - dead spot
KW  - probability of scoring a goal
KW  - center of pressure
KW  - impact force
KW  - wearable technology
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-189126
SN  - 1664-042X
VL  - 9
ER  -