Abstract

This article presents several methods used in motion capture to measure jumps. The traditional systems to acquire jump information are force plates, but they are very expensive to most people. Amateur sports enthusiasts who want to improve their performance, do not have enough money to spend in professional systems. The price reduction of electronic devices, specifically the inertial measurement units, are generating new methods of motion capture. In this article we present the state-of the-art motion capture systems for this purpose, from the classical force plates to latest released IMUs. Experiments show that the IMU is equally valid for measuring vertical jump.