비거리 향상과 부상방지를 위한 기능성 골프웨어 제작

Abstract

비거리 향상과 부상방지를 위한 기능성 골프 웨어의 제작

채상훈*· 김소정** · 박형순*† *한국과학기술원, **한국과학기술원

Development of golf-wear for improving driving distance and injury prevention Hyung-Soon Park*†, So-Jung Kim** and Sang-Hoon Chae* * * Affiliation 1, ** Affiliation 2 † Corresponding author, hyungspark@kaist.ac.kr Key Words: Key Words(키워드), Key Words(키워드), Key Words(키워드) Golf is a popular sports throughout the world. Driving distance is one of the most important skill to golfers. Considering that aged people enjoy golf more, golf injury also should be treated significantly. In this study, we developed a golf wear which can improve the driving distance and prevent elbow injury (i.e. lateral epicondylitis) based on elastic band and taping. Designing the golf-wear, we had to find out three significant factors: (1) the most effective route for elastic band; (2) the effective and appropriate stiffness of elastic band; (3) the proper compression force for preventing elbow injury. We went through motion capture experiment wearing golf wear and had a comparative study between various stiffness of bands. To find the compression force of elbow band, we experimented with force sensor inside golf-wear and applied the compression force based on the data of literatures. After determining the stiffness and design, we validated the prototype golf-wear by comparing it with conventional wear. 24 subjects participated in this experiment. Consequently, the ball speed, head speed, driving distance all had a significant increase (P < 0.01) in developed golf-wear. The final version of golf wear has manufactured by Kolon sports and it is now on sale in market.