Golf Swing Analysis Software
Online, March 24, 2011 (Newswire.com) - For years the TV channels have been using golf swing analysis software to demonstrate the golf swing of professional golfers. They show us slow motion videos of the player's swing, and draw lines on the screen to show how close their actual swing stays to their 'perfect' swing plane.
When a top professional isn't playing very well the TV 'experts' often compare videos of the player's current swing to videos from his heyday. Cruel I know, but they are often able to clearly demonstrate how a change in his swing plane is contributing to his current loss of form. Obviously, other factors such as the player's mental attitude could be contributing to the problem too, but analysis of his swing plane provides an awful lot of useful feedback.
Until very recently the only way that an amateur golfer could experience the 'luxury' of this kind of feedback was to pay for a video lesson with his local golf pro. However, if you are lucky enough to own an iPhone 3GS or 4, you can now buy an iPhone App for just a few pounds which will allow you to capture and analyse your own swing plane, and compare it to the swing plane of the top professionals.
Several of these Apps are available, the latest being the Tiger Woods My Swing, which is reviewed below by USA Today. One of the earlier, and more popular Apps is Swing Plane, a description of which is also provided below.
Tiger Woods goes mobile with his golf instruction:
Looking for help for your golf game? Tiger Woods will lend a hand.
The winner of 14 major championships and 71 PGA Tour titles launched the mobile app Tiger Woods: My Swing on Wednesday, which can help golfers of all skill levels through video analysis and instruction. Working with Shotzoom, a leader in active lifestyle mobile applications, Woods, rebuilding his swing for the fourth time since turning pro in 1996, is a virtual golf coach as he provides videos of himself swinging every club in the bag and tips on specific areas of improvement.
The app features enhanced video capture, side-by-side swing comparison with Woods, advanced golf swing analysis and exclusive updates from Woods. Available at the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch, the app is $9.99. Proceeds will benefit the Tiger Woods Foundation and its mission to provide college access for underserved youth.
"I wish I would have had this when I was making all my swing changes," Woods said Wednesday after his pro-am round in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which he has won six times. "It's what Ben Hogan said: if he would have had a video camera it would have been so much easier. Back then, you had to do most everything by trial and error. Now, because this is mobile, you can instantly see what you just did on the golf course or the range and try and correct your flaw if you need to."
In his earlier years, Woods relied on VCR tapes to check his swing - a fuzzy recording that could not be slowed down. With technological advances, Woods now has tens of thousands of his swings stored and at the ready to be checked. With this new app, any golfer has the same capability.
"The ability to compare and contrast is so important, whether it's with my swing or their own swings if they make a change," Woods said. "Everything about this app is based on how I practice. I've rebuilt my swing a number of times and use this technology to gauge my development and help with my swing transitions."
Woods worked on the app for six months and was conscious on how his instruction and thoughts came across.
"You don't want to make it sound so complicated that people can't understand or do it. That's not fun," Woods said. "What is fun is making it sound simple, give a couple of thoughts, a couple little phrases, and boom, the light bulb goes on.
"Most amateur golfers have no idea what they are doing with their golf swing. What I want them to learn is to try and get feel and real to be the same thing. What you are feeling a lot of times is not exactly what you are doing. We're trying to get that to marry up."
And Woods said the app and his foundation make a perfect pairing.
"Doing this was a way for us to gain more notoriety for what we are doing for the foundation. That was the main focus for why we did it," Woods said. "It will help us raise more money for us to have the ability to do more to get kids to college, to serve them while they are in college.
"The second connection is everybody can now use the same technology I use every day when I'm on the range or the golf course. This is what I use.
"This works."
Visit the link below to read the original article:
http://electricgolftrolleysonline.co.uk/blog/golf-swing/golf-swing-analysis-software
Swing Plane Golf Swing Analysis Software:
Swing Plane is an advanced video swing analysis program on the iPhone.
It is for avid golfers and golf professionals alike, but any sport or activity where analyzing motion and tempo is important would benefit from Swing Plane.
Swing Plane captures video using the built in video camera. You can easily analyze your swing with its playback and drawing tools, making it easy to see if your swing is on plane.
Using Swing Plane will greatly improve the effectiveness of your practice sessions and will result in lower scores.
- Sample Pro videos of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickleson and Ernie Els and others included.
- Import previously recorded videos from your photos app with the option to play and review then trim the video before import.
- Record videos with the built in camera with no restriction on the length of the recording.
- Playback the videos and add lines, rectangles and circles in three colours.
- Frame by frame advance.
- Repeat playback.
- Any analysis (lines or other shapes) you add to a video are saved and reloaded when you play the video again.
- Click and hold a shape to move it after creating it.
- Add notes to a video that are accessible direct from the video player.
- Export videos to Facebook, Twitter or Email.
Visit the link below to read the original article:
http://electricgolftrolleysonline.co.uk/blog/golf-swing/golf-swing-analysis-software