Slingshot is a wearable sensor pod for basketball, worn on the upper arm. It counts jumps and reports how the session split between moving and standing, on one page a trainer can send home. We're building it for the trainers the pro systems left out. We're on the second board design now, and we're in gyms while it gets built.
No software contract, no minimums. The pod is sold outright at $149. The academy signs a data processing agreement covering minors' data.
We drive to gyms across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. If you run sessions, we want to sit in on one and ask what belongs on the report. team@slingshot-sports.com
A composite we are still designing, built from what trainers say they watch for.
Sample data. These bands are the pod's own scale, not a published cut-point. Intensity figures are directional, not clinical.
Catapult Vector and STATSports serve pro and D1 programs. Catapult One reaches youth and high school, but basketball is not among its eleven supported sports. None of them were ever an option for a basketball trainer or an academy operator.
The trainers who do measure run assessments by hand every few months, and between assessments nothing reaches the parent. That gap is what we're building for.
Slingshot is built for the basketball programs Catapult was never going to serve.
One page per athlete, per session, built from what a pod on an upper arm can actually see. Here is what we're designing.
One composite number per player per session, computed against that athlete's own history and never against the athlete next to them. A composite we are still designing, built from what trainers say they watch for.
A clean weekly summary you can send home. The week's sessions, the jump counts, and a note the trainer writes himself.
Times the pod saw the pattern of leaving the floor and landing again. It counts the takeoff. It does not measure how high he got.
Times the arm went above shoulder height in a throwing or shooting pattern. The pod cannot tell a shot from a pass, so the page does not split them.
The pod sorts each second by how hard the arm was accelerating, and the report says how the session split. These bands are the pod's own scale, not a published cut-point. Intensity figures are directional, not clinical.
Export every metric, every session, every athlete to CSV in one click. Your data is yours. No lock-in, no paywall.
The next version is in design. What goes in it gets decided by the sessions we sit in on. The trainers who host us get a direct line into that decision.
See the roadmap →This site advertised a vertical jump number until August 2026. It is gone, because we did the arithmetic and it does not work from a sensor on an arm. We count jumps. We do not measure how high they were. The arithmetic is here.
If you run a training facility, academy, or program, this makes your athletes' work visible to the people paying for it.
Every athlete's weekly report goes home. Parents see the work every week, not just at the end of the season.
Every academy in SoCal promises personalized training. None of them send week-over-week data home. The question we're asking trainers: what would actually be worth putting in front of a parent every week?
No software contract. No player minimums. No sports science consultant required. The academy signs a data processing agreement covering minors' data.
We're three founders putting our own savings into this, not a venture-backed team building from the outside. We know what a trainer running fifteen kids a day actually has time for, because we've been in those gyms. No enterprise bloat.
No software contract, no minimums. The pod is sold outright at $149. The academy signs a data processing agreement covering minors' data.
One composite number per session, computed against that athlete's own history and never against the athlete next to them. How the score is calculated is still open. We are working it out by asking trainers what they watch for rather than choosing the inputs ourselves. The full reasoning is here.
The pod sorts each second by how hard the arm was accelerating, and the report says how the session split.
Catapult and STATSports sell to pro and D1 programs, on contracts and player minimums. Slingshot is for the private academy neither of them will serve. The pod is sold outright at $149. When there is a board to put in a gym, the trainers we have sat with hear first.
We're three founders building in the open. The decisions, the dead ends, and what the data actually says.
We're in gyms across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties asking trainers what belongs on the report. Leave your email and you get the first one off a real session, the week it exists. Paid private basketball academies and skills trainers with budget authority.
No software contract, no minimums. The pod is sold outright at $149. The academy signs a data processing agreement covering minors' data.
We'll reply with two questions, program type and number of athletes. No spam.
Or just email us: team@slingshot-sports.com