Court Notes Method
What wrist-stroke bursts can—and cannot—say about a padel match
A Watch can group your own detected strokes by timing. It cannot count every player's shots or measure complete rally length.
PlayDNA groups the strokes captured from your wrist into short timing windows. The 1–3 through 13+ buckets describe your own detected strokes per burst, not the number of shots the ball traveled between both teams. Your partner’s and opponents’ strokes are not present in a solo recording.
01 — What the timing shows
The gaps between captured strokes offer context for how your recorded play was spaced. Missed detections, a quiet stretch with no personal strokes, and the movements of three other players can change that picture. Do not treat the buckets as a complete point-by-point rally log.
02 — Why keep the buckets?
An average can hide whether your own strokes arrived in clusters or more evenly over a session. The distribution adds that timing context without claiming how long every rally lasted or what caused the final score.
03 — Keep effort in its own lane
When Health access is available, heart-rate zones and session demand describe your recorded response to exercise. Stroke timing and heart rate are different observations; neither alone proves fitness, fatigue, injury risk, or why a point was won.