{"id":2902,"date":"2017-02-21T17:29:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:30:46","slug":"internet-of-training-hykso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/21\/internet-of-training-hykso\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Training &#8211; Hykso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>My hand mountable punch trackers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hykso.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hykso<\/a> arrived last week. I can&#8217;t quite remember when and where I pre-ordered them but I have been looking forward to trying them out. They are designed for boxers and so geared around punching but I figured that they would be able to respond to our Choi Kwang Do techniques, which include punching of course.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epredator\/32755222291\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Internet of Training #hykso will see how they cope with Choi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2846\/32755222291_74e5e90a71_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Internet of Training #hykso will see how they cope with Choi\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe two sensors, one lights up red one lights up blue need to be strapped to the back of the hand just behind the wrist. I bought some hand wraps but they are a lot of faffing around and I found that my gel hand protectors with the larger wrist wrap hold the sensors nicely. The only problem is that I like to wear my fitbit for hear rate data, and that sits just behind the wrist too. So i placed the left one a bit closer up along the hand.<br \/>\nPairing on IoS was straight forward, wakes them up with a tap and then assign to a hand.<br \/>\nI tested them just after a class so I was warmed up but in my own dojang. I dived right into a 2 minute PACE drill punching Bob and the bag, to realise I had actually set a 2 minute until we start recording delay. Some techie I am !<br \/>\nSo after being even more warmed up I tried again, this with another 2 minute mix of punches, palms and knife hands. It certainly counted all the punches, something that is very hard to do at speed. That in itself is a useful extra training aid especially in the punch for 2 mins, count then, now punch for 1 min and try and get more than 50% of the last count, repeat for 30 seconds and a 15 second blast.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48oV2bXUAApJkK-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48oV2bXUAApJkK.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48oV2bXUAApJkK-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48oV2bXUAApJkK-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIt can be distracting to get lost in numbers, but equally it provides relative indications. The app generates these images for social media, but internally shows a lot more detail, a speed, counter and &#8220;effort&#8221; monitor breaks down punches and power punches, which I think are anything not an inwards punch in Choi.<br \/>\nWhat I did notice in the graphs were my &#8220;intensity&#8221; score dropped mid session but thats when the speed rocketed up. As we often point out in training the more relaxed you are the more velocity you can punch with. A counter intuitive but effective way to focus on effort without effort.<br \/>\nNext I tried just the deceptively powerful reverse known hand for a few seconds. This number may be because it is confused as the hand angle on contact compared to a round punch but to go from 8mph average to 27mph strikes is very telling.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48n-sNWMAUH9WL.jpg-large-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48n-sNWMAUH9WL.jpg-large.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48n-sNWMAUH9WL.jpg-large-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C48n-sNWMAUH9WL.jpg-large-768x384.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nI have seen this on other equipment watching a 3rd dan get triple what most of use could register on an instrumented shield with a reverse knife hand. So for pure contact it is very effective. I suspect elbows, one of my favourite to drive a shield holder back would be along those lines but they are unlikely to register as an impact on the accelerometers in the device. I am not complaining as these are boxers tool not martial arts tools.<br \/>\nIf the data is tracking movement and streaming it it would be really interesting to be able to profile moves such as a block and still count them. That would need an open Api or some data export but I look forward to giving it a go.<br \/>\nIt fits with the other work I had done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/use-case-2-real-world-data-integration-ckd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exploring using the Kinect<\/a><br \/>\nOnce I get these darn wisdom teeth all extracted and sorted I can get back to proper training heading to EE Dan (2nd) and these will definitely be a tool in my conditioning arsenal. Lookout Bob!   <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2017%2F02%2F21%2Finternet-of-training-hykso%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/21\/internet-of-training-hykso\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hand mountable punch trackers from Hykso arrived last week. I can&#8217;t quite remember when and where I pre-ordered them but I have been looking forward to trying them out. 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