Kinematic Analysis and Measurement of Sports Form

Measurement of Golf Driver Swing Form

Abstract

This paper is aimed at describing how to measure the sports form. The measurements can be used for the quantitative sports skill evaluation for example. Here we focus our discussion on the golf driver swing form which is most difficult to measure and is one of the difficult sport forms to skill up.
The presented measurement derived by the kinematic human body model analysis and the system developed by using the three dimensional rate gyro sensors set at the several body positins can catch the three dimensional rotation motions and the three dimensional translational motions of various parts of body. The system can measure the golf driver swing forms by various golfers correctly. Form the data caught by the measurement system, some skill criteria linguistically written in the internationally famous golf lesson text books are quantitatively expressed. The quantitative data for the criteria by a novice golf player and a middle class player show the reasonable and appropriate results.