Welcome to the KINEXON Sports blog, where we coaches, players, managers or fans learn about the latest insights, and stories about sports analytics, player tracking, and ball tracking.
Author: René Prüßner
Sports analysts create and analyze metrics related to sports, which represent various aspects of athletic performance, including speed, strength, endurance, and skill. However, not all metrics are equal.
KINEXON Sports provides tracking systems that help sports teams to optimize their performance, health, and strategy. We do this by providing real-time data and insights on players, balls, and tactics, plus fan engagement, VAR support, and media content creation. How, you ask? Let’s find out.
Author: René Prüßner
Sports technology is becoming more advanced and widespread in recent years. From wearable devices to smart stadiums, it’s changing the way sports are played, coached, and enjoyed by fans.
Sports scientists and sports data analysts have two distinct roles in the sports industry. While both roles involve working with data, they differ in their focus and responsibilities.
Author: Jonas Bohner
In basketball, shooting is not just about talent or luck. It is also about practice and technique. And data analytics is becoming a powerful tool for coaches and players to use. Here are three ways that sports data analytics can help you improve your shot tracking and become a better shooter.
Basketball is a physically demanding sport that requires players to perform at high levels of intensity, speed, and skill. However, not all basketball seasons are created equal. In Europe, the basketball season is notoriously long and grueling, posing significant challenges for players and coaches alike.
Author: Jan Pfisterer
With the increasing number of matches and tournaments that handball players must participate in every year, such as the European Championship (Euro), the Olympics, the Champions League, and the national leagues, the workload and stress on the bodies of handball players is enormous. Here’s how some coaches use data to prevent soft tissue injuries.
Injury prevention in sport leads to player availability. But there is something each coaching staff has to have in order to improve it before, during and after the season in any sport. What is it? Let’s find out.
Author: Jana Hubel
Research shows that each phase of the menstrual cycle may affect a women athlete’s performance, but developing cycle-syncing workouts can help.
Author: Jan Pfisterer
Since 2020, KINEXON Sports has been providing information and statistics at the Men’s and Women’s EHF EURO, and this year is no different. But you may notice something new.
KINEXON Sports is the world’s only ball tracking provider to offer sensor technology that can be integrated into official football and handball match balls. The technology provides real-time positions and inertial data (impacts and spin rate) of the ball with accuracy down to the centimeter. So, let’s find out how it helps coaches transform subjective impressions to objective measures.
Wearable sensors for athletes need to be light, comfortable and track player movements, but how light can they be? It may surprise you how much KINEXON PERFORM IMU or LPS wearables actually weigh.
