Force plates tell the story. The mat lets you live in it.
Switch mats are showing up next to force plates in college football weight rooms, not replacing them. The plate gives you the deep force profile. The mat gives you contact time, flight time and RSI in real time, on every rep, at group speed. Here is how Tulsa football runs both.
Force plates show us the full force story but the Plyomat lets us live in it. With real-time contact time, flight time, and RSI, we can coach, compete, and adapt on every rep. One gives us depth; the other gives us density. Together they turn testing into training.
Two instruments, two jobs
A force plate and a switch mat answer different questions. The plate is the periodic deep read. The mat is the thing the whole group stands on every day. Neither one is trying to be the other.
The full force-time curve, on a testing day. The kind of read you take on a schedule, sit down with, and program from.
- Force-time curve eccentric and concentric phases
- Rate of force development how fast force is built
- Impulse and net force the physics behind the number
- Left and right force dual plates, asymmetry
- One athlete at a time a monthly or block-by-block test
Contact time and flight time on every contact, scored and on the wall before the athlete has turned around. Enough reps, fast enough, to coach from.
- Contact time to the millisecond, every rep
- Flight time and jump height every rep
- RSI, live the score every coach already reads
- DRI on drop jumps comparable across box heights
- Two mats, a whole group rep after rep, at training speed
What the coach sees the moment the athlete lands
This is what "live in it" means in practice. Each contact on the mat lands on the screen as a scored rep, so the cue happens on the next jump, not next week. The athlete sees it too, which is where the competing starts.
The rep stream on the right of the screen is the "every rep" part: each contact lands as its own row with contact time, jump height and RSI. Every score comes from two measured times, the contact and the flight that follows it. Demo athletes shown.
Where each one sits in the week
Test on the plate
On the schedule. The full force profile per athlete, the read that sets the block: where the deficits are, who needs what, what the target is.
Train on the mat
Every session. The group cycles through, every contact is timed and scored, and the coach cues stiffness, intent and landing off a live number instead of an eye test.
Read both in the app
Every rep is saved to the athlete. Trend RSI and contact time across the block, then bring the next plate test back to the same names and see whether the training moved it.
The Portable System
Two mats, the Controller 3.0, the cables and the app. It sets up in a minute, runs a group through drop jumps, 10/5s and countermovement jumps, and travels in a bag. The software is free and stays free.
- Two 28×14" switch mats
- Controller 3.0
- Mat and device cables
- Plyomat 3.0 app, iOS and Android
- Connect the mats or run them separately
- Every metric on this page, on every rep
Ships in 2 days. Free software, free updates. Need one bigger mat instead? The 28×28" system runs the same app.
Plates and mats
Does the mat replace force plates?
How accurate is the timing?
How fast can a group move through it?
What does the app cost?
Depth from the plate. Density from the mat.
Put the Plyomat next to the force plate and turn the testing day into every day. Under $1,000, ships in two days, free software.