Comfortable Skates
Investigating (dis)comfort of the Risport RF1 ELITE figure skate
In order to create comfortable Risport RF1 ELITE figure skates, (dis)comfort is measured by using the Localised Postural Discomfort (LPD) method. Due to the absence of a LPD of the foot in the literature, I created three LPD’s myself based on research executed by (Strzalkowski, Peters, Inglis, & Bent, 2018). The redesign of the Risport RF1 ELITE figure skate shown in figure 2 and 3 is based on the discomfort score (figure 1) from two participants measured by the LPD’s.
Figure 1 Localised Postural Discomfort.
Figure 2 Increased width based on LPD.
Figure 3 Cover the hard material by bending the soft material around it, so it doesn’t cut in your leg.
References
Strzalkowski, N., Peters, R., Inglis, J., & Bent, L. (2018). Cutaneous afferent innervation of the human foot sole: what can we learn from single-unit recordings? Journal of neurophysiology, 1233- 1246.