A head guard is provided. The head guard includes one or more sensors as part of an sensory input and communications system. The head guard wirelessly communicates data to remote computing devices for intelligent data collection.

Articles of sports equipment, such as striking implements (e.g., sticks) and wearable articles (e.g., skates, helmets) for playing hockey or other activities, in which at least one of the characteristics (e.g., stiffness) of the articles of sports equipment is adaptable and can be altered during use of the sports equipment, such as by comprising an alterable component coupled to a controller, by comprising an alterable component that is autonomously alterable, and/or by an alterable component that can be altered in response to a command of a remote device.

Described is a sports training system that can be used to assist pitchers in identifying foot placement and mechanics during a pitching motion. The sports training system includes a mat and plurality of foot pads. The mat is designed to have at least a pitching plate and a plurality of grid zones, while the foot pads are used for placement in one or more of the plurality of grid zones to assist the pitcher with foot placement.

There is provided a motorless treadmill. The motorless treadmill includes: a motorless track having a curved shape such that an inclination angle increases with respect to a ground surface toward a front end and a rear end, and configured to move around a closed path by a user's footsteps; and a pair of side covers disposed on two opposing sides of the motorless track, wherein the motorless track changes movement speed according to a location at which the user steps on the motorless track, and wherein, on at least one side cover of the pair of side covers, a speed-related indicator is disposed to indicate information related to the movement speed of the motorless track.

Provided is a virtual road surface implementation-type bicycle simulator. The virtual road surface implementation-type bicycle simulator according to the present disclosure includes a rear wheel support portion that supports a rear wheel of a mounted bicycle and rotates together with rotation of the rear wheel; and a road surface implementation portion including a plurality of uneven portions that perform a protrusion operation at various heights on an outer peripheral surface of the rear wheel support portion in contact with the rear wheel, thereby providing a rider riding the bicycle with various road surface states which are virtually set.

A head guard is provided. The head guard includes one or more sensors as part of an sensory input and communications system. The head guard wirelessly communicates data to remote computing devices for intelligent data collection.

A bat speed measuring device is including a housing, one or more light emitting assemblies producing light at first and second sensing zones relative to the housing, first and second light receiving assemblies for receiving respective light reflections of the light when a moving object, such as a bat, passes through the first and second sensing zones, and a processor configured to calculate a speed of the object moving between the first and second sensing zones.

A method includes identifying, from trajectory data for a kick, kick parameters for and adjusting a value of a first one of the kick parameters to a new value to calculate a first simulated trajectory in relation to a target area in combination with adjusting the value of the first kick parameter to a second value to calculate a second simulated trajectory and calculating a first blocked portion of the target area based on the first simulated trajectory and an obstacle between a launch position and the target area and a second blocked portion of the target area based on the second simulated trajectory and the obstacle. In addition, an optimized value of the first kick parameter is determined where a simulated trajectory of the ball calculated kicked with the optimized value results in a successful kick into the largest unblocked portion of the target area.

The invention concerns a treadmill system (10), comprising a treadmill (20) having a treadmill surface (22) provided for treading on by a user (B), wherein optical markers (30, 32, 34) are formed on the treadmill surface (22), a camera device having at least one camera (42), wherein the camera device (40) is configured for acquiring a temporal image sequence comprising a plurality of images of at least a part (24) of the treadmill surface (22) while capturing the markers (30, 32, 34), and a control device (50) configured for receiving the image sequence from the camera device (40), determining, based on the image sequence, at least a movement information of the user (B) locomoting on the treadmill (20) while treading on the treadmill surface (22), and executing a control function based on the movement information. Furthermore, the invention concerns a kit for upgrading a treadmill (20).

A training apparatus having a progress indicator and unified base for different apparatus types, such as for an ergometer, speed bike, recumbent bike, home training bike, rowing apparatus, elliptical trainer, cross-trainer or treadmill. The fitness apparatus of every apparatus type is based on a structure which is unified in terms of technical design, according to which the frame or pedestal of the fitness apparatus has rollers which are arranged on the frame or pedestal such that a tilt-stable positioning of the frame with respect to the subsurface and a longitudinal displacement of the frame or of the frame together with the pedestal relative to the subsurface is enabled by means of an actuator depending on the measure of success of the user training.