Monitoring of physical training events
A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes instructing a human player to perform a plurality of different actions in a determined order with a physical basketball, including actions of bouncing the physical basketball, and obtaining, with one or more electronic sensors, data that characterizes motion of the physical basketball being handled by the human player who is performing the instructed actions at a location. The method also includes communicating the data from the sensors to a console videogame system that is proximate to the location, and graphically representing, in a videogame displayed on a display device, performance by the human player, the performance being affected by the captured data, the representation of performance by the human player being compared against a standard of performance.
1. A computer-implemented athletic performance analysis method, comprising:
obtaining, at a computer system, first motion data generated by a test subject moving a test ball containing motion sensors through a predetermined exercise;
analyzing in the first motion data, with the computer system, the data from the motion sensors;
comparing the first motion data with corresponding motion data of three other users who have performed the predetermined exercise, wherein the corresponding motion data of the three other users are correlated to three different skill levels; and
providing to a remote computer at a location of the subject a report regarding the first motion data, the report reflecting the comparison of the first motion data and the corresponding motion data of the three other users wherein the report identifies a skill measured by the first motion data, identifies three skill levels at which the skill may be performed, and classifies the test subject's skill level for the skill together with the three other users who performed the predetermined exercise.