The hockey sticks have been developed under traditional and empirical ways. Nowadays players must take a low stance to hit a ball strongly because the sweet spot of the conventional stick locates about 180mm apart from the tip. The purpose of this study is to develop a new hockey stick considering the players' motion. We found that the mass distribution of the stick affects on the position of the sweet spot. Owing to this knowledge we designed a new shape stick that had the sweet spot rather near tip. A newly designed stick and a conventional shape stick were made of wood to be compared each other. It is also revealed that the new stick is very easy to handle on ball keeping and other handling motions.
The Proceedings of Joint Symposium: Symposium on Sports Engineering, Symposium on Human Dynamics
