BAL.ON Smart Kit Review
There are countless training aids out there to help us improve but perhaps none as technologically advanced and at the same time as affordable as the new BAL.ON Smart Kit, produced by automotive manufacturing giants Continental. This cleverly designed piece of kit allows golfers and their coaches to measure the amount of force applied through their feet and then into the ground while making a swing. The most impressive thing about it, though, is it’s all measured through two extremely slim shoe insoles and derived from an internal competition within the Fortune 500 company.
The whole BAL.ON Smart Kit will fit in most golf bags fairly easily
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While there have been ways to measure force in the golf swing for some time now, noticeably through the likes of force plates, there has been nothing quite as easy to set up and mobile as the BAL.ON Smart Kit. The whole package feels as though it weighs less than a packet of crisps, can easily be stored in your golf bag and can be purchased for £549 – significantly less than some of its competitors. While there is other golf tech on the market will measure up to four types of force, the BAL.ON Smart Kit only measures vertical force. However, even as a golfer who has a good understanding of the golf swing and ways to generate force and power, even I would be overwhelmed by the amount of data if there was more to unpack.
Metrics captured by the BAL.ON when I was standing upright
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The kit itself comes in a neat case, where everything inside is ready to be assembled with the help of some simple directions, just like all the best golf accessories. The insoles are each fitted with nine pressure sensitive pads strategically placed around the areas of the foot where most force is applied through the golf swing. The insoles come in different sizes, and the sensors will measure up to 50kg of force. For reference an average human standing still will only generate 6.5kg of force in each sensor and so the device can handle the power of Long Drive competitors – it’s safe to say I wasn’t close to exceeding the limit!
The components all felt very premium and…
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