pressure sensor for boot tongue

We all know how important it is not to ski from the backseat, and instructors/coaches constantly tell us to keep pressure on the boot tongues.

I’ve heard the classic coaching line:

“Imagine there’s a coin between your shin and the boot tongue - keep pressure on it.”

Personally, I’ve always found that hard to monitor/quantify - I think I’m not in the backseat… but video (and my kids) sometimes say otherwise.

I’m thinking about DIY-ing a pressure sensor mounted on boot tongue to measure pressure in realtime (for logging or streaming to app).

Before I go down the rabbit hole, I’m curious:

  • Do you think this would actually be useful?

  • For training, racing, or boot fitting?

  • Or would it mostly be interesting data with limited practical value?

I know the old Carv footbed sensors measured pressure on the sole, but their current app no longer exposes that data even with old version of sensors. I also wonder whether if pressure on front of sole is the same thing as pressure on boot tongue - one could be on your toes while still drifting back, so sole pressure alone may not tell the full story.

Would love to hear thoughts from the Carv team and this community...


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Under Consideration

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Feature Requests

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Metrics & Data

Date

2 months ago

Author

byroncheung

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