Performance monitoring systems and methods for edging sports

A method for performance monitoring for edging or near-edging sports in which a pair of foot-worn boots are coupled to corresponding surface-engaging equipment which is manipulated by a wearer of the boots to control engaging of one or more edges or near-edges of the surface-engaging equipment with the surface beneath the wearer, the method comprising:

• (a) providing a pair of measurement apparatus, one measurement apparatus of said pair of measurement apparatus associated with each boot of said pair of foot-worn boots, each measurement apparatus of said pair or measurement apparatus comprising at least one sensor, wherein said at least one sensor is adapted to cooperate with the corresponding said boot and the corresponding said surface-engaging equipment to measure and provide data corresponding to at least forces exerted on said surface-engaging equipment by the wearer of said boots,
• (b) providing a data receiver cooperating with each said sensor to receive said data and to communicate said data to a data processor,
• (c) providing a feedback mechanism to a user, said feedback mechanism cooperating with said data processor,
• (d) determining in said data processor from said data, for each said sensor, at least the following characteristics derived from said data:
• force over time, a peak force of said force over time, delta time of any one of said force over time, explosiveness corresponding to any one of said delta time,
• (e) providing via said feedback mechanism at least a quantum of at least one of said characteristics to the user.