So, my final project idea is to upgrade a boxing glove with an integrated accelerometer so it can report, through numerical analysis of the acceleration data, displacement (maybe a 3D displacemente plot of the punch gesture), speed and force of a punch.

My first impression is that most of the performance analysis done in sports are focused on professional users using rather expensive techonologies, such as Mocap setups, video analysis and device triangulation. Anyways, at this point I need to research deeper on this (I'll start lookgin at sci-hub) , but my proposal consists on a less expensive and local device.

Some of the difficulties I expect to find are the processing power of the chosen IC, eventually this might involve wireless data transmission to off-board numerical processing (an App?), maybe most important, the accelerometer data quality and the electronics location and housing withing the glove.

I imagine the device working in two different levels; first locally, giving only a very simple analysis in a small display in the very same glove (maybe only telling the user if the current punch was stronger/faster than the previous). The second level might involve an external platform for a deeper data analysis and plot rendering.

Note that the boxing glove is just my first personal choice, this very approach might work on a lot of other sports gears, or even in rehabilitation processes.