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The 20% Asymmetry No One Could See: How Rua Laboratories Delivers Lab-Grade Testing with PlateMate
Jack used PlateMate force plates at Rua Laboratories to catch a hidden landing asymmetry that visual analysis couldn't — and brought roughly 200 athletes into his lab in its first year.
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The 20% Asymmetry No One Could See: How Rua Laboratories Delivers Lab-Grade Testing with PlateMate
Jack used PlateMate force plates at Rua Laboratories to catch a hidden landing asymmetry that visual analysis couldn't — and brought roughly 200 athletes into his lab in its first year.
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PlateMate vs Bertec/Hawkin: Raw Signal Comparison
Stacked-plate comparison of PlateMate and a Hawkin-processed Bertec on a countermovement jump — body weight agrees to ~0.11 %, biomechanical metrics (jump height, peak power, takeoff velocity) all within 1 %, and 0–30 Hz coherence saturates at 1.0.
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PlateMate vs Vald ForceDecks: Drop Jump Comparison
Stacked-plate comparison of PlateMate and Vald ForceDecks during drop-jump landings — peak-force agreement holds to ~0.4 % across 4 of 5 landings, with no detectable inertial-bias signature at landing peaks of ~370–465 kg.
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PlateMate vs Vald ForceDecks: Raw Signal Comparison
Stacked-plate comparison of PlateMate and Vald ForceDecks on 5 countermovement jumps — body weight agrees to ~0.08 %, peak force to ~0.45 %, and coherence holds ≥ 0.99 in every band 0–30 Hz.
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GroinMate Used in Peer-Reviewed Research Published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
A peer-reviewed study in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports used GroinMate to track 114 elite youth football players over nine weeks — squeeze pain during the Copenhagen Five-Second Squeeze Test predicts on-pitch performance deficits and groin pain in play, in both male and female players.
- 25/26 Software Roadmap
25/26 Software Roadmap
Where ForceMate Cloud is going next — sit-to-stand and CMRJ tests, squat analysis, and more PDF report options through 2026 — plus a recap of what we've shipped since May 2025.
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PlateMate vs Vald ForceDecks: A Direct Comparison of Metrics
Internal comparison study against Vald ForceDecks (medium) on 55 jumps and 3 IMTPs across two subjects. Raw signals overlap nearly perfectly; CMJ metrics agree to ~0.6 % on average (r = 0.993), and IMTP to ~1.5 %.
- New software features and wireless on the rise.
New software features and wireless on the rise.
A recap of features released this round — balance testing with center of pressure, the wireless module, the pogo jump test, live jump detection, and additions to the isometric analysis (RFD, time-to-peak).
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PlateMate vs. MyJump App, a comparison of jump height, contact time and flight time.
Agreement study of PlateMate against the MyJump app across nine elite athletes on drop jumps — Pearson r > 0.99 for jump height, contact time, and flight time.
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CC Athletics in Ghana
Partnership with Right to Dream — supplying force measurement technology to the residential football academy in Accra, Ghana, founded in 1999 and now a leading international school for student-athletes from across Africa.
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R&D partnership with FC Nordsjælland
FC Nordsjælland joins as our official R&D partner to apply the latest sports technology and evidence-based knowledge in player development — testing 200 players every week with our plug-and-play solutions.