Patented technology
Grip Technology: Golf Grip Pressure Sensor
Measure your force to improve your swing: Golf Grip pressure sensor
It’s not working again today? Are you struggling with your golf swing and nothing works? All the video analyses, force plates, launch monitors and nothing gives you a clue?
Do you know that situation when nothing works and you do not understand why? You are annoyed and you would like to throw away your golf equipment?
If you just want to carry on being annoyed, then it is best not to read any further.
But if you want to learn about a new technology that is innovative and gets to the root of the problem, then this article might be of interest to you.
We golfers sometimes find it difficult to correctly assess our muscle tension. A lot happens subconsciously and only a few people can tense or move their muscles with a predetermined force.
This is especially true for the hands. When you speak, you move your hands almost unconsciously. Something similar happens during the golf swing.
In the golf swing, you try to get close to the ideal swing: not too tight not too loose and in the right sequence. But what is ‘tight’ and what is ‘loose’?
Each has its own meaning. The well-trained athlete understands a loose grip, to mean something completely different to a young golf student who is just learning to play golf
What’s more, we ‘control’ our hand movements and hand tensions to a large extent from our subconscious. We can only control some of these movements voluntarily if we can measure them.
The grip strength of the hand is an essential part of the power chain of the golf swing. Nevertheless, little research has been done into the strength of the hand on the golf club and its influence on the swing. The reason for this is that it is very difficult to measure
This has recently changed.
Eoswiss Sport has launched a completely new technology: the golf grip pressure sensor, fully integrated into a golf club. The entire measuring electronics and sensors are housed in a normal golf club. All finger and palm forces are measured dynamically during the entire swing and transmitted wirelessly to a tablet. There, the data is received, stored, and analyzed together with a motion film of the swing. This allows you to measure the hand tension or finger pressure during the golf swing and use it to start training. You can only train what you can measure, because only then can you get feedback on your training success.
What can you discover and see with this technology? How does it benefit your training and your game?
Making the unconscious measurable
‘Eoswiss sports technology measures the difference between what I think I’m doing and what I’m actually doing’, as one professional golfer who tested our technology put it.
Even if you think you are completely relaxed, you think you are making the perfect golf swing – but for some unknown reason it just does not work:
When you start to measure golf grip pressure data, you realize that your right or left hand may be more tense than usual. For example, you have just finished a long car journey, carried something heavy, worked too much with the computer mouse – you are no longer aware of all these strains, but your arm muscles are still affected. If you start to measure your swing and finger strength, you will see this very quickly.
In this case, you simply know that you don’t need a special new video analysis, but simply need to loosen up your arm muscles or your neck muscles. The grip measurement shows you where the problem is really coming from!
You can intervene quickly and specifically and get your desired swing back faster!
Focus on the important things
Eoswiss Sport Technology:
Making the unconscious measurable
You want to improve – but where do you start?
The hands are the only link in the entire power chain with which you transfer power from your body movement to the club. This is where you control the last milliseconds before your racket hits the ball. This is where the precision comes from and the repeatability of their shots.
If their swings are too variable (sometimes right, sometimes left and only a small part of the trajectories go where they want), it has already paid off very well for some golfers to measure, visualize and train their hand pressure and hand forces.
Golfers have been able, to double their precision with better control of the grip forces. You go from variable swings to very precise, highly repeatable swings. Why?
If you analyze several swings, you will see where the differences really come from. Some of our analyses, for example, have shown that although the golfer does everything visually identically, the hand pressure is different. The golf grip pressure data show a different pattern. As a result, the accelerations are different and the movement of the club tip changes. Even if you were to see this in a film (for example, a high-speed recording), you still can’t change it. Only when you see the root of the problem, i.e. the sequence of fingerprints and hand forces, can you recognize the best place to start.
No matter what the swing looks like, it’s all about getting the ball where you want it to go. (‘Golfer’s oracle’)
Many methods of improving the golf swing are based on visual comparison. You want to make the golf swing like the famous player ‘XYZ’.
The main aim of visual comparison is to recognize and influence or train the biomechanics of the golf swing. This is very important. However, the biomechanics only serve to build up the power that you then ultimately transfer to the golf club via your hands. In other words, all the power you build up with your body is ultimately transferred to the golf club via your hands. So, if you want to know how much and which forces you are transferring here, then it is best to measure these forces. Only when you measure here can you really recognize how and what your hands are doing.
We humans ourselves are very bad at recognizing what we touch with our hands and how strongly. This is simply because we only know our own hands – we can’t compare them with the hands of others. Only when we measure can we recognize differences between the coach and the player, for example, or between different players. This is where you can start with targeted training. You train your movement sequence with hand and finger pressure.
So if you measure the force and pressure of the hands on the golf club, you have a very important diagnostic tool for assessing the overall power transmission and therefore also the power build-up. Ultimately, it’s about the power transfer and not about the ‘beauty’ of the swing alone.
As one of our players says:
‘no matter how stupid a golf swing looks, if your golf ball flies precisely and far with it, you win’.
Improve your precision! Measure your golf grip pressure dynamically during the swing and improve!
Contact us for a test!
Eoswiss Sport
Geneva/ Switzerland
