Am looking at getting a watch (eg: buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/159116) or similar to track height when kitesurfing, speed and other genral fitness stuff, have seen some images of the best "woo" which looks liek it may do some of this- has anyone had experience with a garmin for these kinds of activities?

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I use a suunto ambit 2s to check my jump height, aldo this sport watch have accelerometers, I only could program an APP in this watch which manages GPS data with some others defined variables. The basics of this App is measuring the mean tide level (by retrieving the last 15 seconds of the lowest gps height) and then calculates the difference between the jump height and the mean sea level.

I think this is not very accurate but at least you can have a reference when jumping and for progressing... This is a video I made about this...

cbulota said..
Check out this video:

http://bcove.me/msiwdr9t

This is what you want. It's not on the market just yet and i'm not sure when they will release it, but if it's affordable I reckon that will be pretty popular.

This is their Website: www.woosports.com

read the initial post... the woo is being marketed by BEST was also on all of their boards at the surf expo.

I have a 101 foreman [old and bottom range] it said I was 10m high at the beach ?
The strap worked free in crashes. Get a good one.

Forget gimmick watches.
Buy a Shadowbox.
Done.

deanrobi said..
Not sure that Shadowboxlive are still available, i think their website disappear a while ago, these two new gadgets (woo & Xensr) seem to be a lot smaller and managed to do what most people want, height, air time, distance traveled etc . The interface software looks good two. for a couple of hundred bucks I will give it a go, probably the Woo

The Shadowbox team went to Xensr 4 years ago and we just announced the XensrAIR.

kookaburrahz said..
get a vario that bluetooths into your smartphone and run leonardo that way you can track not just height of your jumps but distances etc etc and see it all on gps then hang it on your refridgerator because no one else gives a ****

Nice
if you are not having fun then more gear won't get you there

This is a thing now?

I carry a vernier around in my kite bag.





At the end of the session I can measure the width of my smile and the tightness of the sphincter - tells a lot about the height of my jump.

I also keep a diligent log book of of it all.