Sport performance system with ball sensing

An apparatus comprising:

• an American-style football;
• at least one sensor coupled to the football;
• at least one transmitter coupled to the football and operably coupled to the sensor;
• and
• a non-transient computer-readable medium containing code to direct the processor to:
• instruct the player to perform a particular type of act with the football;
• receive input pertaining to motion of the football for the act;
• determine a travel distance of the football based upon the received input;
• adjust the travel distance of the football based upon a handicapping system that is based upon characteristics of the player;
• and
• present a videogame involving a simulation of the act with the football, wherein the simulation of the act with the football is based upon the adjusted travel distance of the football.

A player training apparatus for use with a portable performance system including a processor, a memory and a display, the training apparatus comprising:

• an American-style football;
• at least one sensor coupled to the football;
• at least one transmitter coupled to the football and operably coupled to the sensor;
• and
• a non-transient computer-readable medium containing code to direct the processor to:
• instruct the player to perform acts with the football;
• receive input pertaining to motion of the football for each of the acts;
• adding and storing individual results to a bank of available results, each individual result related to the input for one of the acts, the bank of available results comprising individual results resulting from a same type of act with the football at different times;
• display information relating to the input;
• and
• transmit a selected one of the individual results from the bank to a video game for use in the video game, wherein other individual results stored in the bank are not transmitted but are available for future transmission to the videogame, wherein the selected one of the results transmitted from the bank to the videogame is a one-time use result withdrawn from the bank.