Smart Bag

Abstract

A smart bag offers tactical, visual, and audible interactive features for workouts and has numerous benefits: enhance aerobic fitness, core stability, coordination, power, stamina, and endurance. The smart bag improves upper-body strength and strengthen bones and ligaments and enhances full body boxing, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), kickboxing techniques. The smart bag provides real-time guidance to indulge the user in a challenging experience. The workout guidance is presented through illuminating and extinguishing a series of light units integrated with sensors. The light units are distributed on the bag, wherein the duration and sequence of illumination of individual light units are controlled by a control system. Through interacting with the control system, the user achieves focused training at the desired intensity level that emphasizes on power, speed, accuracy, and reaction. Further, the control system can record boxing and biometric data using the sensors.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates generally to fitness equipment. More specifically, the present invention relates to a smart bag system for martial arts practice, boxing, punching, kicking, and other physical sports and workouts. The smart bag system provides a user with various exercise challenge levels by illuminating devices on the bag at pre-determined time intervals and durations for the user to throw punches and / or kicks at. Further, the smart bag system includes a control system and a plurality of sensors to turn off the illuminating devices upon impact and provide various exercise measurement data to the user through wireless communication.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Boxing, including punching, kicking, martial arts, etc., provides the magic of body workout. Bursts of anaerobic activity full of sustained intensity alternate with short rest periods, thus giving it a contemporary jargon as “high-intensity interval training”. It is a more efficient...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]A smart bag system offers tactical, visual, and audible interactive operating features for boxing, punching, kicking, martial arts workouts, or any workout using a bag system. The smart bag system has numerous benefits: enhance aerobic fitness, core stability, coordination, power, stamina, and endurance. The smart bag improves upper-body strength and strengthen bones and ligaments and enhances full body boxing, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), kickboxing techniques. Through the integrated punching bag with an interactive control system, the smart bag system provides real-time guidance to a user with random or predefined workout sessions, which indulge the use in a challenging and joyful experience to overcome the often dullness and loss of focus/balance associated with most conventional punching bag systems.

[0008]The workout guidance of the smart bag system is presented through the us...

Problems solved by technology

A conventional free stand punching bag or even a swinging bag may not be able to challenge many aspects of boxing, which may include boredom, focus, accuracy, intensity, speed, training/workout record, biometric data, etc.

This may cause a user who exercises boxing using bags to get into negative habits beyond feeling bored most of the time.

The most problematic habit may be the so-called “lazy eyes” in boxers.

During countless, repetitive punching and/or kicking throws, the user may get a little too comfortable with the boxing bag resulting in losing focus and taking eyes off the bag.

The negative consequence may further demotivate the user in addition to the boring feeling that the exercise brings, and even causes the user to get punched ...

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