I've seen alot of statistics lately about who has the strongest kick, and how fast people can punch...but how are these things tested. Is there some sort of electronic thai pad that measures...what would it be, pressure and speed?
I needs one of these things, just think, you could tweak the angles and shift of your body to maximize your kicking and punching power.
Just think about how it would amplify technique!
On top of that, you could figure in knee torque off of knees, and where energy is being lost in your strikes, i.e. if you snap or push instead of actually cracking the pad.
IF these things are not being produced....whoever starts the patent could make some bank (with digital technology as it is today...who knows, it might be relatively cheap to produce, you could even market a computer program to work with it and measure progress or regression in the raw numbers, maybe even motion capture balls to help you hit the right way every time, or expirement to see the effect) selling to elite kickboxing and mma camps, not to mention Japanese Karate guys, and Olympic TKD guys...
Just send me one for the thought...
