27 January 2022
The Winter Games in Beijing are coming up. How will the Dutch skaters perform? The new measuring skate provides coaches and skaters with feedback on skating technique.
In the future, Dutch top skaters might skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This measuring skate gives top skaters and coaches information about the technique of the skating movement. The interplay of forces between the foot, the ice and the skate can be measured with it.
The new skate is a further development of earlier prototypes, and was developed within the Sport Data Center, a consortium of Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, among others. Jeroen van der Eb (formerly Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, now Leiden University) won the Sportinnovator award 2020 with the measuring skate.