Football performance technology
Understanding football performance from the ground up.
BOUND builds performance technology for football, starting with a smart insole that records how each foot meets the ground in real training.
For clubs and academies · V1 prototype in validation
The problem
Football measures a lot around the player.
Tracking shows where players run and how fast. Heart rate shows how hard they work. What happens where the foot meets the ground is measured far less often in training: force plates and lab systems do it well, but mostly away from the pitch.
Read: What GPS still misses about football movementThe product
A smart insole for football.
Seven pressure zones and an accelerometer in each insole, designed to be worn in a player's own boots during normal sessions.
What's in it, and where it stands.
V1 prototype boards are currently undergoing bench validation
- Seven pressure zones under each foot: heel, midfoot, forefoot and toes.
- An accelerometer in each insole for movement context.
- Raw data captured and kept, so every result can be traced back.
- Recorded to a phone at the side of the pitch, then uploaded to the BOUND system.
- Every capability labelled built, in validation or planned.
- No force values shown until calibration is validated against reference equipment.
For teams
Built for performance departments.
Designed to fit a normal training week, with the decision left to staff.
Record
Players wear insoles in their own boots. A phone at the side of the pitch records each foot, all session.
Review
Per-player, per-foot summaries, compared with each player's own baseline.
Understand
Evidence for staff on how players load the ground, labelled with how far it has been validated.
Validation
Measure first. Prove it. Then show it.
We keep the raw data, compare against reference equipment before presenting any value, and separate what was measured from how it is interpreted.
Research & insights
All research- Deep Dive
ResearchWhat GPS still misses about football movement
Tracking systems are very good at telling you how far and how fast a player ran. Football is decided in the short, violent moments between those numbers, and that is where the measurement gets harder.
17 October 2026
7 min read - Discussion
ResearchHow football clubs should evaluate new performance technology
Every vendor promises insight. Before a club signs, five questions separate a useful tool from an expensive distraction, and they apply to BOUND as much as anyone.
17 October 2026
5 min read - BOUND Paper
ResearchWhy preserving raw pressure data matters in wearable sports technology
A wearable's numbers are only as trustworthy as the chain that produced them. For pressure insoles, that chain is long, imperfect and still poorly validated. Keeping the raw signal is how you keep it honest.
17 October 2026
7 min read
Pilot BOUND with your squad.
Early pilots with clubs and academies, and validation studies with research groups.