Patent US 7,536,033

The present disclosure is directed to apparatus and methods for analyzing the motion of sporting equipment, such as a golf club, a baseball bat, a hockey stick, or a tennis racquet. The apparatus comprises an imaging system in communications with the sporting equipment to measure motion parameters. The imaging system may be located on the sporting equipment or, optionally, within the sporting equipment. The systems and methods described herein can be used to determine the impact location of the sporting equipment with another object, the momentum transferred, the velocity of the sporting equipment and/or the angular orientation of the sporting equipment during a motion.