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exkarategirl
White Belt
Joined: 02 Oct 2003
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 Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: Measuring kicking power |
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I am doing a project for a sports performance class involving a TKD sidekick. One of the criteria we want to measure is power. I seem to remember there was this "pressure plate" thing that martial arts suppliers used to hawk at tournments to measure the power of a sidekick. You kicked the pad and it gave you a number.
Does anyone in the Silicon Valley Bay area (Or your dojo) have one of these gizmos I could borrow for a day?
Or, does anyone have any suggestions on measuring power? Measuring vertical jump is the gold standard, but is there another way?
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The Saint
Green Belt
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Posts: 441
Location: Dartmouth, NS Canada
Styles: Tae Kwon Do ITF
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Try going to this web site, There is a thing called a pressure mat which measures the force that your body puts on your feet. It is used for orthotics in shoes. If you could somehow attach it in a vertical position it could potentialy work. I'm not too sure on this because it has possible never been done before. Good Luck if you try it, and keep us informmed on findings, It sounds like a good experiment.
http://www.swri.org/3pubs/ird2000/09-9178.htm
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alanseijas
Orange Belt
Joined: 20 Aug 2003
Posts: 125
Styles: Isshinryu, Shorinryu, Fut Sao
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I saw that in Rocky 4. The Russian averaged over 1500 pounds! (or something like that)
Didn't Century used to make that?
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monkeygirl
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Joined: 22 Feb 2002
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Location: Iowa
Styles: Tae Kwon Do
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Go to your local natural science museum and go to the earthquake section. Sometimes they have these nifty little cement blocks for you to kick and test your strength 
Plus it's always fun to go to science museums 
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battousai16
Black Belt
Joined: 24 May 2003
Posts: 2069
Location: Wisconsin
Styles: Hwa Rang Do, Omulu Capoeira
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"Plus it's always fun to go to science museums "
yeah it is me and my buddys are planning on taking a road trip to the milwaukee museum of science pretty soon, i'll keep an eye out for one of those kicking thingies
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Shorinryu Sensei
Black Belt
Joined: 13 Jun 2002
Posts: 2045
Location: Kalispell, Montana
Styles: Shorinryu Matsumura Kenpo (Seito/Orthodox) Karate and Kobudo
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I bought one of those striking pads back in the '80's, and it lasted MAYBE one hour and broke! I returned it to Century Martial Arts for replacement, and was informed that they are going to be discontinuing that item because they were finding that ALL of them were being returned. They just wouldn't hold up for long I guess.
Kind of a nice item for playing around in the dojo...until it broke! lol |
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KwicKixJ1
Orange Belt
Joined: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 164
Location: Texas
Styles: Taekwondo, Shorin Ryu, Shudokan, Muay Thai
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lol. that's funny.
i think century has an attachment to one of those shield pads (y'know, those rectangles you hold on your side... kinda looks like a rectangle squishy shield?) there's an attachment for the hole on top to measure how much air gets pushed out of it and you can calculate a poundage offa that. |
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YoungGrasshopper
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Joined: 04 Apr 2003
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It's called the "Ssaurabi Machine". I've practiced with it at my old TKD Dojang. I don't know where, how, or how much it costs to get it (I've looked everywhere). Anyways, Ssaurabi measures how hard and how accurately you kick or strike the targets, as well as your speed and recovery time. This allows you to beat your own high score and such. So yes, when you kick/punch it displays the power with numbers. And there is a mode where the spots light up as you kick them trying to catch up (think of that DDR game, except instead of dancing...kicking/punching), and that your strikes must be a power above a certain measure so you can't cheat. Also there's a mode where it simply counts how many times you can kick within a certain amount of time...and ofcourse the simple "power test" strike.
If you/anyone figures out or knows how to/where get one of these please contact me by PM or something. I desperately want one of these! |
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SaiFightsMS
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Joined: 28 Oct 2001
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Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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| That looks pretty interesting. |
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