The Technology I Use to Help You Get Better Fast
Amazing High-Speed Ultra Slow Motion Videos!
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No longer is high-speed footage a privilege for the wealthy few. My iPhone 6 allows me to easily shoot ultra slow motion movies at speeds that have until now been available only on professional level cameras. Imagine capturing swing moments that cannot be seen by the naked eye, making the invisible visible. I can adjust for a swing setting of 240 frames per second (fps) -- ordinary digital cameras create video at 30 and 60 fps.We can look at your golf swing in the same detail as that shown in the video to the left!
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SwingView Pro 14 Video Analysis Software
   
  
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In 1954, Scientists from RAND Corporation made a model of what a home computer might look like in the year 2004. Amazingly they were right on! Right down to the steering wheel and the 14 square feet! My first home computer in 1988 was a 10 pound Zenith “portable” DOS computer with all of 20 MB of hard drive storage -- 0.004% of what my 500 GB all-in-one PC currently has. With all kidding aside, I’d like to thank companies like Rand who have developed the easy-to-use technology that even golf pros can understand.
SwingView Pro TM can display the golf swing in real-time video, slow motion, frame by frame, comparison or overlay to easily identify areas of improvement for the student. Any swing is can be captured using at the push of a button. The last captured swing is displayed and ready for playback. This feature is called Swing Trace, my current favorite, to show you the shape of your golf swing. From a Side View you can easily trace the path of the club head and see the "loop" or gap between the Backswing (Red) and Downswing (Green). The best players in the world typically have the least looping. You can have the Swing Sequence, just like you see in the golf magazines. This is the 9 frame version; there is also a 20 frame version. A powerful tool, we can add lines, annotations, and comments for each frame. Each frame can also have a voice-over so you can listen to what is described. In 20 frames I can put you side-by-side to a Tour pro. All easily viewed via email in an Adobe PDF format. In the Screen Recording mode we can make a "movie" of nearly anything -- your swing as we annotate and voice-over, one or two views at any speed, a comparison of you and a Tour pro, you doing a drill, whatever we can imagine that will convey the message. You receive this via email, download it to a file and save it to review whenever you want, as often as you want. SkyProEmpower your game with real-time swing data. We hook this very small, light device to your club's shaft and almost instantly capture valuable swing data and 3-D imagery of the shape of your swing. SkyPro can be used on any club -- at the range or on the course -- and that includes short game shots and putting! SkyPro measures the movement of the golf club, not the body and not the ball. With my help we'll change the body movement to change how the club moves. The shape of your swing and the path your club head travels tells a lot about why your game is inconsistent. The real-time swing data that can be captured includes:
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Golf MTRx Body Motion Capture
Golf MTRx (Metrics) is the first and only mobile technology that measures the movement of a golfer’s pelvis through a swing and provides real-time feedback and immediate solutions to develop a more efficient and powerful swing. Learn the metrics of your best swing so you can repeat it every time. Focused on the power-generating core of your body, Golf MTRx will help you hit it longer and straighter. 
BodiTrak Foot Pressure Mat Using the Boditrak mat with video software adds an important dimension to golf instruction, and offers the student a “peek behind the curtain.” The Boditrak mat, which consists of more than 400 high-resolution pressure sensors, provides detailed foot pressure data, accurate pressure distribution, real time center of pressure (CoP) and CoP patterns. These are all elements that cannot be determined by the best trained eye or even expensive high-speed cameras. The balance plate data is perfectly synchronized with high-speed video images. The Boditrak mat helps us answer two very important questions in the golf swing:
BodiTrak allows an instructor to provide cutting-edge technology to students, giving immediate performance results, enhancing skill retention and explaining the kinematics of the golf swing in a new way. Boditrak can help correct set-up flaws, as well as inefficiencies and inconsistencies with the pivot and transition. Great ball strikers have certain checkpoints that they try to achieve during their golf swing in terms of weight distribution. Using the Boditrak we work to optimize your weight movement so that you can improve the power and consistency of your golf swing. YouTube Golf Drills and Videos
I have a special channel on YouTube devoted to golf drills designed to help you understand how to practice or how to make that new move in your swing. |
Why do I use video analysis?
To make sure that I don’t mis-analyze! Most PGA Professionals use some type of visualization when they are teaching golf, most common of which is the use of video. This helps the golfer to see his or her swing, allows the Golf Professional to put the video into slow motion to highlight elements of the swing and gives the golfer a “take home” visual element after the lesson.
I can watch your swing and the flight of the ball, and have a very good idea if anything is “wrong” with your swing. Of course the most important aspect is the flight of the ball. But if your ball flight is not correct or not consistent, I want to be able to slowly step through your swing on video to make sure of the proper diagnosis. I think that without the video the diagnosis is an educated guess. The better the instructor, the more accurate the educated guess. But with the video, I can ensure an accurate diagnosis.
I can also leverage the video to communicate with you exactly what your swing looks like. I may say you're coming over the top but you may not feel it, and may not be convinced in your own mind that you have this swing flaw. But if I can show you the video, it’s like a light goes on. Click, “Oh, I see!” From this point I (and you) have no doubt what needs to be adjusted in the swing to bring proper ball flight with more consistency.
Video is not the only way to teach the golf swing. There are some players who are “feel” players. They go by feel and make adjustments by feel. They just don’t care what the video looks like, they care how their swing feels. And I will help them make adjustments by feel. There are other players who make adjustments visually and mechanically. To them the video shows exactly where their swing is now, and what needs to be done to make any corrections. This is an important distinction to make, as it determines how I will communicate swing change to them. But in either case, I can leverage the video to document to you any swing flaws. And then after instruction, I can show you your improvement compared to your original swing.
Using video helps students remove the guesswork from their progress. A frame-by-frame analysis offers both instructor and student a way to specifically evaluate play, and can help the student reach an understanding of what is needed to improve their game.
Nine out of every ten golfers struggle to break 90 and ... nine out of ten golfers choose to teach themselves.
To make sure that I don’t mis-analyze! Most PGA Professionals use some type of visualization when they are teaching golf, most common of which is the use of video. This helps the golfer to see his or her swing, allows the Golf Professional to put the video into slow motion to highlight elements of the swing and gives the golfer a “take home” visual element after the lesson.
I can watch your swing and the flight of the ball, and have a very good idea if anything is “wrong” with your swing. Of course the most important aspect is the flight of the ball. But if your ball flight is not correct or not consistent, I want to be able to slowly step through your swing on video to make sure of the proper diagnosis. I think that without the video the diagnosis is an educated guess. The better the instructor, the more accurate the educated guess. But with the video, I can ensure an accurate diagnosis.
I can also leverage the video to communicate with you exactly what your swing looks like. I may say you're coming over the top but you may not feel it, and may not be convinced in your own mind that you have this swing flaw. But if I can show you the video, it’s like a light goes on. Click, “Oh, I see!” From this point I (and you) have no doubt what needs to be adjusted in the swing to bring proper ball flight with more consistency.
Video is not the only way to teach the golf swing. There are some players who are “feel” players. They go by feel and make adjustments by feel. They just don’t care what the video looks like, they care how their swing feels. And I will help them make adjustments by feel. There are other players who make adjustments visually and mechanically. To them the video shows exactly where their swing is now, and what needs to be done to make any corrections. This is an important distinction to make, as it determines how I will communicate swing change to them. But in either case, I can leverage the video to document to you any swing flaws. And then after instruction, I can show you your improvement compared to your original swing.
Using video helps students remove the guesswork from their progress. A frame-by-frame analysis offers both instructor and student a way to specifically evaluate play, and can help the student reach an understanding of what is needed to improve their game.
Nine out of every ten golfers struggle to break 90 and ... nine out of ten golfers choose to teach themselves.
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