Team Victoria training camp

Today state training involved sparring with the LaJust electronic body protection. This method of scoring is prominent in international competitions so for Australian athletes we need to start using this as much as possible to keep in touch with our international competitors.
From next year our national competition will use one of the electronic scoring systems, preferably Daedo or either LaJust / Addidas. I also hear that a turning head kick will register 4 points!
After two World Championships and the British selections I've had an opportunity to use the Daedo and LaJust and found Daedo to be easier to score on. Whether this is because with the LaJust, the electronic footpads require a technically perfect kick (where you must turn your foot so it contacts horizontally onto the chest guard) or perhaps the pressure required for Daedo is not as high, I'm not sure. There could be other factors also which determine why one system seems to score easier than the others. I think whats important at this stage is to realize the WTF haven't wholly committed to one particular manufacturer, so as a competitor you need to be familiar with the intricacies of each.
I found most of the athletes today did not have the electronic foot protectors (or socks) which work in unison with the EBP.
This means the scoring system was predetermined to only operate on pressure. For the competitors today its hard to gauge how they performed when not wearing the socks. For example after the post training session discussion it was made clear that punches were easily scoring in the clinche and one competitor had accidentally knocked his own body protection to register a score for his opponent.
Ideally this system requires both body guard and socks to prevent this.
Watching today I was able to observe one thing in particular with the EBP that is associated with how the device works. Because it works on the force applied to the guard ie the pressure, I noticed a number of players attacking and making a "pop" on the guard which would have been scored by the judges though was not scored via the electronics. I was told by Henk Meijer regarding the Daedo EBP that if you are the attacker and your opponent is sliding out (away) when you connect, you are unlikely to produce the force required to score. And this was definitely the case today.
Likewise the player who was focusing on sliding out and countering tended to score much easier as their opponent was increasing the force of their kick by moving into it.