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Instinct tracking ice skating or hockey?

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

Is it possible?

I created a new activity using a couple.of different GPS settings to no avail. 

Tried some of pre-installed activities no good. 

All I can get is duration and heartbeat.  No speed or distance?

Any help thank you in advance,  I really appreciate it!

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    GPS won't work indoors. And anyway, GPS is not good enough for tracking speed and distance for sports with frequent rapid changes of speed and directions. You should see some sensible results when doing speed skating, though. I'd just use the "Other" profile (or a copy of it) with GPS enabled.

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Try the Hockeytracker app and an Apple Watch - he's not supporting Garmin devices yet. I used a Garmin 935 and Venu with the foot pod on my skates and just track it as Cardio but now just use my Apple Watch and Hockeytracker!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    So that's interesting. Apple can track speed and even the shifts you take while playing hockey [through HockeyTracker app] but Garmin simply decided not to work for hockey or Futsal [indoor soccer]. That makes no sense for a $600+ watch. Even Suunto has an Ice Hockey profile. No speed, but everything else is there. 

    I created a profile using Other, had the same disappointment. No speed or distance.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Sudsy
    Sudsy said:
    I created a profile using Other, had the same disappointment. No speed or distance.

    Use Treadmill or Indoor Running activity types, and you can then calibrate the distance based on the cadence.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks. I will give it a try and see how that works!

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    How do you expect to have a watch track your speed or distance when you don't have access to GPS indoors?  Just make your own activity.  Attach a Tempe module to your skates.  Then you can track HR, ice temperature, and whatever else you want to track...just not anything that uses GPS.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Jonnyfilmboy

    Read previous comments. Also, this is no excuse when others are doing it:

    1. suunto
    2. iwatch through tons of apps
    3. Catapult
    4. And some others… look it up

    plus, they could easily use some accelerometer and/ or a gyroscope to calculate speed too.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Sudsy

    There's no way to use an accelerometer and gyroscope to calculate speed accurately.  They can of course calculate steps and estimate ground contact, but when skating, you do a lot of coasting.  And the watch has no way of knowing if you are coasting forward, backward, or standing still as those all pull the same amount of 0G lateral force.  Without the GPS, speed and distance would all be just guesswork and would be highly inaccurate. And then people would complain about that.  As an engineer, sometimes you just can't win.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Sudsy

    Here's a good article on some of the limitations involved with tracking movements on ice vs ground, indoors vs outdoors.