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Pressure Profile Systems Teams Up With SportScience, FSN's New Cutting-Edge Original Series

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SPORT SCIENCE RETURNS WITH SIX NEW EPISODES STARTING ON SUNDAY, MARCH 16

Can NFL receivers really catch a bullet pass with just their fingertips? What do we mean when we say Jerry Rice has “the softest hands in the NFL”? How quickly can an NBA player really get a shot off after an inbounds pass?

Pressure Profiles Systems helps Fox Sports Net break new ground this Fall as the world's greatest athletes and scientists come together to make an unprecedented exploration into the world of sports. Cutting-edge pressure and force sensing technologies unveil the biomechanics and mysteries behind the games we play as part of the new FSN series, SportScience.

Until now, all of these arguments were conjecture: discussions that took place on stools at sports bars across the country as fans debated the intricacies of the game with nothing but their passions and opinions to make their arguments. Now FSN and Pressure Profile Systems open up the world of sports as never before, giving sports’ most ardent fans answers to questions they have asked in earnest for decades.
Pressure Profile Systems’ advanced FingerTPS tactile sensing system was used with professional football player Az Hakim and hall-of-famer Jerry Rice to examine just what an elite receiver’s hands are doing as he catches a pass. The FingerTPS was also used with NBA sharpshooter and 2-time 3-point champion Jason Kapono to test the NBA’s rule that a player may not catch and shoot if under 0.3 seconds are remaining on the clock.

“Coming off the success of FightScience, we knew we could make a key contribution to a series reaching an even broader audience,” said David Ables, Chief Technology Officer of PPS. “SportScience was an excellent opportunity for our technology to break new ground in our understanding of human performance and demonstrate just how much you can learn when you can capture the sense of touch.”
SportScience premieres on Fox Sports Net in September 2007.

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