How do you recognize the swing of a top golfer? A device developed by Metitur Oy for analysing golf strokes knows the answer to this question, among others.

Metitur's device for measuring balance and practising analyses a player's weight transference and reports on it to the player. The device tells the player whether he is making wrong movements, whether the weight transference in the swing is being made at the right time and whether the player's alignment is straight throughout the whole stroke. Your own profile can be compared with the test results of top players.

"The device gives real time feedback about your performance and tells you quantitatively what a coach has earlier tried to tell you by looking," says managing director Pertti Era.

"For example, you know the swing of a top golfer in that the player does not sway backwards and forwards during the stroke; he moves smoothly, keeping his balance."

The product is based on the same technology that Metitur has been utilizing in health-care equipment for ten years. Metitur produces equipment and software for measuring balance, muscle power and motor skills.

The development work required by the golf appliance has been carried out in association with Swingia Ltd, which markets the product primarily to golf academies and training centres around the world.

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The device meant for measuring balance and practising tells a golfer how his swing is going.