Placement of inertial measurement units in Racket Sports: Perceptions of coaches for IMU use during training and competition.

While inertial measurement units (IMU) have become an integral part of sports performance analysis, upper body-mounted IMUs been found to exhibit poor reliability in measuring lower-limb loading. In racket sports, placed a number positions on the body, lower body and research setting. A potential limitation concurrent use multiple is that coaches may be reluctant allow their athletes wear during training competition due concerns would interfere with athlete movement. This study seeks understand perceptions towards competition. total 58 sport responded survey Based responses, 96.6% (56 out 58) indicated they training, while 65.5% (38 For 9 14 suggested IMU placements received significant positive responses. However, none responses for 11 negative suggests benefits collecting data from Despite this, regular monitoring sports.