Introducing Strike Research and the world’s first and only commercially available impact - power measurement system.

Strike Research is a new UK based, high-tech product, research and development organisation, working primarily in the field of applied sport science. Strike Research develops and markets direct and through licensees its’ ‘own-design’ range of equipment used by sportsman, martial artists, police, military, gym equipment manufacturers and the pub/bar/arcade games industry.

At the heart of the system is Strike Research’s patented invention known as StrikeMate (GB092243, pending) providing science based motivation and training through the measurement of impact power, its accuracy and speed. A conscious decision was made to design a cheap simple solution capable of measuring the actual power generated during an impact from punches, strikes, kicks and certain hand weapons, rather than force. This overcomes the main problems associated with the historical approach of measuring force, namely; that the force generated is subjective, being dependent on the size of the contact area of the strike and the hardness of the material being impacted. By measuring mechanical power rather than force we can for the first time allow meaningful comparisons to be made, as the characteristics of the item being struck are always the same, unlike the various approaches to measuring force. This revolutionary invention can capture the actual peak power generated during an impact by taking literally hundreds of measurements during the 30 millisecond impact peak .The resulting impact pad design (StrkeMate) requires little investment in tooling and is very cheap and extremely simple to mass-produce. Despite this, it exhibits the following characteristics; small, portable, replicable, calibrated, safe and scientifically proven.

StrikeMate is a complete integrated system designed to professional standards for training and measuring improvements in a wide range of impact sports, initially martial arts and boxing, where it is also an ideal partner when used as part of an accelerated learning or sport science programme.  StrkeMate also has similar potential with, soccer, rugby, American football and baseball, where no such systems exist. Finally it has huge potential  as an alternative to existing punching/boxing type games in arcades/pubs/bars, where current products allegedly measure speed and not power, and as such really are for ‘amusement only’ and finally as a new piece of  gym equipment in sports/ health clubs and gymnasiums. Click here to see how SrtikeMate could potentially be adapted, for these markets.

Used in conjunction with a standard personal computer, users of this calibrated system (the implication of this is that they are all the same) will be able to compare their power in real time against others within their organisation, in other parts of the country and across the world, via their own closed social networks.

StrikeMate was invented by the organisation’s director, Kevin Franklin, a black-belt Shukokai karate stylist, with 35 years’ experience of product development. The co-directors are Bob Cooke and Alex Barrett, science graduates who, between them, have 50 years’ experience of electronics research and development.

After more than two years work developing a calibration methodology, testing to destruction and field trials, the company will shortly have its first production run available for sale, evaluation and demonstration.

Strike Research is looking for partners interested in buying licences, giving them the exclusive rights to produce and market StrikeMate within specific markets and territories, including access to our development of ‘pay as you go’ via the internet.