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10 Reasons Forceteck Should Be In Your Budget
- May 12
- 6 min read
As teams around Europe begin finalising budgets for the upcoming season, decision-makers are weighing up how and where to invest in sports science tools.
Proper sprint analysis could be the true differentiator between winning and losing a trophy, or a squad with high availability versus one plagued with injuries. So it’s no surprise that the best-performing organisations are investing in technologies that focus heavily on sprint mechanics.
That’s why if you haven’t yet included Forceteck in your budget planning, we think you should.
Forceteck is changing how elite teams understand movement, performance, and injury risk by delivering lab-grade biomechanical sprint analysis directly from phone video footage, on the training ground, without the need for expensive laboratories or wearable sensors.
Already trusted by organisations including the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton team, Bristol Bears, West Ham, Nottingham Forest, AS Saint Etienne, Bath Rugby, and others, Forceteck is helping coaches make faster, smarter, and more objective decisions.
Here are 10 reasons why Forceteck deserves a place in your performance budget this upcoming season.
10 Reasons Forceteck Should Be In Your Budget
1. Gain access to new, easy-to-understand metrics that change your coaching perspective
One of the biggest strengths of Forceteck is that it introduces coaches and practitioners to metrics they simply haven’t had access to before. The platform goes beyond traditional outputs and exposes movement qualities, force production patterns, joint-level mechanics, and asymmetries in ways that are practical and easy to interpret.
That often changes the way coaches think about training. Long-held assumptions can suddenly be challenged by objective evidence. Coaches begin to understand not only what athletes are doing, but why they are performing the way they are.
Instead of relying purely on intuition or generic testing, coaches gain deeper insights into movement efficiency, sprint mechanics, and force application that can directly influence programming decisions.
"Forceteck’s data allows you to be far more precise. You can adapt exercises and field-based drills based on what the athlete actually needs, not just what you think they need." - Sam Scott, Owner & Founder of SSc Performance
2. You can assess an entire squad in just 10 minutes
Traditional biomechanical testing can take hours, often requiring athletes to attend a laboratory one-by-one with specialist equipment and technicians. Forceteck changes that completely.
Entire squads can be assessed in just minutes, with actionable outputs delivered almost immediately afterwards.
Previously, comprehensive sprint analysis across an entire squad was rarely realistic. Even when teams had access to the right equipment and expertise, time constraints often meant staff had to prioritise certain athletes over others, typically focusing on starters, returning players, or those already identified as concerns. The risk was that important performance trends or emerging issues in players “flying under the radar” could easily be missed.
For coaches, this means testing can become part of the regular training process instead of a disruptive event. It removes friction from performance monitoring and allows teams to gather high-quality data more consistently throughout the season.
3. Automate your S-MAS processing
Sprint mechanics analysis traditionally requires practitioners to manually review footage frame-by-frame, to calculate the S-MAS, a highly detailed score that indicates athletes at a greater risk of lower limb injury. This is an incredibly time-consuming and subjective process, which also involves an expert in sprint biomechanics.
Forceteck automates that workflow.
The platform delivers detailed sprint kinematic analysis, including left-right asymmetries and movement inefficiencies, within minutes rather than hours or even days. That not only saves enormous amounts of staff time but also improves consistency and objectivity in the injury risk analysis.
As clubs continue searching for marginal gains, technologies not only save time but also help minimise the cost related to players being injured or not fit enough to play.
“Since using SprintAI, we have been able to take a far more targeted and individualised approach to session design. We have also worked closely with our physiotherapy team to help manage and reduce injury risk, using insights provided by the SMAS score.” - Dan Burmiston, Lead Academy Performance Coach, Nottingham Forest F.C.
4. Get lab-quality results in real-life settings
For years, one of the biggest limitations in sports science has been the gap between laboratory testing and what actually happens on the pitch.
Forceteck bridges that gap.
Using advanced physics-informed AI and biomechanics models, the platform provides lab-grade analysis from ordinary video footage captured from a regular phone or tablet in real training and competition environments.
That means practitioners can gather meaningful movement data without removing athletes from the context that matters most: performance on the field.
"Anything that can make the data collection process less invasive and more accessible is going to be powerful. I’ve had to do virtually nothing with the data, and after a few minutes of processing, I get all of my outputs automatically. Forceteck makes the whole process really simple." - Michael Muckelt, Starts & Strength and Conditioning Coach, British Skeleton
5. Assess all players with the same protocols and quality anywhere in the world
One of Forceteck’s biggest advantages is accessibility.
Because assessments can be completed using video and mobile devices, testing is no longer restricted to the training ground.
Players on loan, away on international duty, or training remotely can still complete the exact same protocols with the same level of reliability. That consistency is hugely valuable for clubs managing athletes across multiple environments.
For ownership groups operating multiple clubs globally, it also creates standardised data collection across all locations, helping organisations build a more unified performance framework.
6. Bring science and medicine teams together
In many organisations, medical and performance departments operate with slightly different priorities.
Physios are often focused on prevention and rehabilitation, while strength and conditioning staff are primarily focused on performance enhancement.
Forceteck creates a shared language between those departments.
Because the platform is rooted in biomechanics and movement quality, it naturally creates overlap between performance and medical conversations. Practitioners can collaborate more effectively around movement deficiencies, asymmetries, and intervention strategies.
That alignment can strengthen communication across departments and improve athlete management as a whole.
7. Gain objective data on return-to-play insights
Return-to-play decision making is one of the most difficult and high-pressure areas in professional sport.
GPS systems tend to report single performance values such as top speeds, but importantly it doesn't tell you anything about how the athlete went about achieving that single performance value.
Forceteck provides much deeper insight.
By analysing limb velocity, movement quality, asymmetries, range of motion, and dozens of additional biomechanical variables, practitioners can compare post-injury performance against pre-injury baselines with far greater precision.
8. Insights into range of motion at the joints
Forceteck offers unique insights into joint-level movement that many coaches have never previously had access to outside a laboratory setting.
Understanding range of motion at the ankle, knee, hip, and centre of mass provides valuable information about both performance potential and injury risk, and that deeper analysis allows for answers to questions that were previously difficult (or in many cases impossible) to assess accurately outside of a specialist laboratory environment.
Teams can identify whether certain movement restrictions are limiting speed or force production, while also uncovering movement patterns that may increase injury susceptibility.
That balance between performance enhancement and injury prevention is becoming increasingly important in modern sport.
9. Assess players in a simple, easy-to-understand way
Data only matters if coaches can use it.
Forceteck breaks down complex biomechanical information into digestible outputs that allow teams to quickly categorise athletes into meaningful groups or “buckets.”
This makes intervention planning much simpler. Coaches can identify which athletes need specific movement interventions, performance work, or preventative strategies without becoming overwhelmed by excessive complexity.
"Forceteck really is a simple, easy-to-use product that makes my life as a coach much easier." - Jonathan Ward, Athletics Performance Coach @ Bristol Bears
10. Continuous app development and new features
Technology is only valuable if it continues to evolve, and Forceteck’s development speed is one of the reasons teams enjoy working with them.
The company is highly collaborative and practitioner-driven. Coaches and sports scientists regularly provide feedback and ideas, and the Forceteck team are known for responding quickly with updates, new features, and tailored solutions.
Rather than operating as a fixed platform, the system continues to grow alongside the needs of elite sport, meaning that getting in the door today allows you and your team to play a part in molding how this technology develops.
A Smarter Approach to Performance and Player Care
Elite sport is evolving rapidly, and the organisations that embrace smarter, more objective performance tools will continue to gain an edge.
Forceteck gives teams access to lab-grade biomechanics, real-world testing, rapid analysis, and actionable insights that improve both performance and player care. From Olympic gold medal-winning skeleton athletes to elite rugby and football clubs, the results are already being seen at the highest level.
If you’re finalising budgets for the upcoming season, now is the time to explore how Forceteck could fit into your performance strategy.