GOLF ATHLETICISM RATING SYSTEM

• US 20130079907A1
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: ANNIS, DAVID H, HOMSI, KRISTOPHER L
• Application Number:
  US13/682,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/91
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2505/09 Rehabilitation or training
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1126 using a particular sensing technique
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/00 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

Aspects of this disclosure relate to systems and methods for rating the performance of an athlete, particularly a golf athlete. The systems and method may include instructing the user to perform multiple golf-relevant athleticism drills or tests such as a stepping exercise, a broad jump, a wood-chop bounce, a countermovement lateral hop and/or a side-sling object launch. One or more drills or tests may be performed in a hip-neutral manner so as to simulate a golfer'"'"'s stance. The performance data collected from each of these tests may be input into a processing system to generate an athleticism rank and score for each test as well as an overall, multi-factorial rating of golf athleticism.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing system having at least one processor, athletic performance results from multiple types of performance tests, the athletic performance results including at least two selected from the following;

a change in pulse of an athlete measured during a stepping exercise,

a broad jump distance of an athlete,

a lateral hop distance of an athlete,

a bounce distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete in a downward direction toward a target, and

a sling distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete using a underhanded side sling; and

generating, by the computing system, a golf athleticism rating based on the at least two athletic performance results.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the athletic performance results includes the thrown distance of the ball, and wherein the method further includes receiving, at the computing system, the sling distance of the ball during an exercise in which the athlete holds an object between the athlete'"'"'s legs while performing the underhanded side sling.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the stepping exercise includes multiple rounds of stepping by the athlete, each round of stepping followed by a rest period.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an athleticism score for each athleticism performance result, and wherein generating the golf athleticism rating includes combining each athleticism score.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein generating the athleticism score for each athletic performance result includes normalizing the athletic performance result data to a common scale.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the athletic performance results is received from an athletic performance field having one or more integrated sensors.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the athletic performance field comprises a portable test field.

8. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

receive athletic performance results corresponding to an athlete'"'"'s performance during multiple types of athletic exercises, the athletic performance results including at least two of;

a change in pulse of an athlete measured during a stepping exercise,

a broad jump distance of an athlete,

a lateral hop distance of an athlete,

a bounce distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete in a downward direction toward a target, and

a sling distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete using a underhanded side sling; and

generate a golf athleticism rating based on the at least two athletic performance results.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the athletic performance results includes the sling distance of the ball, and wherein the method further includes receiving, at the computing system, the sling distance of the ball during an exercise in which the athlete holds an object between the athlete'"'"'s legs while performing the underhanded single-hand throw.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the stepping exercise includes multiple rounds of stepping by the athlete, each round of stepping followed by a rest period.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising computer readable instructions for generating an athleticism score for each athletic performance result, and wherein generating the golf athleticism rating includes combining the athleticism scores.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein generating each athleticism score includes normalizing the athleticism result to a common scale.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein at least one of the athletic performance results is received from an athletic performance field having one or more integrated sensors.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the athletic performance field comprises a portable test field.

15. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a processor perform a method for evaluating the athleticism of an athlete in golf, the method comprising:

receiving at least two results for the athlete'"'"'s performance in at least two different athletic performance tests related to golf;

comparing each of the at least two results to a corresponding distribution of test results of athletic data for athletes similar to the athlete and determining a percentile ranking for each of the at least two results;

transforming the percentile ranking for each of the at least two results to a fractional event point number for each result, wherein the percentile rankings for each of the at least two results are progressive; and

determining an athleticism rating score for the athlete in golf based on the fractional event point numbers.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 15, further comprising determining an athleticism score includes combining the fractional event point numbers to determine a combined fractional event point number and applying a scaling factor to the combined fractional event point number.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16, wherein transforming the percentile ranking for the at least two results to the fractional event point number comprises applying an inverse-Weibull transformation.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 17, wherein the distribution of test results of athletic data for athletes similar to the athlete is determined using the empirical cumulative distribution function.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 18, wherein the percentile ranking for each of the at least two results is capped at a ceiling value.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 15, wherein the athletic performance results including at least two of:

a change in pulse of an athlete measured during a stepping exercise,

a broad jump distance of an athlete,

a lateral hop distance of an athlete,

a bounce distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete in a downward direction toward a target, and

a sling distance of a ball when thrown by the athlete using a underhanded side sling.