Mobile golf swing analysis refers to technology that is used to record, study, analyze and correct a golfer's swing. Such technology exploded in the first decade of the 21st century. It can be as simple as an instructor recording your swing on the range in a video that plays it back in stop motion. It can be a complex as using equipment ranging from sensors to your mobile phone to film your swing, upload it to a teacher on a different continent, and later download the instructor's audio analysis and pictorial evidence of swing flaws to work on.
Mobility
As the Golf Swing Analysis website says, ordinary golfers who receive instruction as of 2011 expect to see a video of their swing, a visual record of swing changes and improvements, and a summary of their lessons via email. Various teaching devices use everything from the mundane, such as high-speed video cameras, to the exotic, such as biomechanical vests and ultrasound technology, to analyze your swing.
Devices
At a site such as Golf Coach Systems.com, golf instructors can buy golf swing analysis software, launch monitor software, pocket personal computer software and online video locker services, to send rapid feedback to a golfer's home or club. These and other devices provide range of information, including a sequence of still images of your swing, side-by-side comparisons of your old and new swing after lessons, and software that allows you to burn files of your swing to CD or DVD files.
Recent Innovations
PGA teaching pro George Kelnhofer might have devised the most frustrating -- if effective -- mobile aid for swing analysis, a Whack-a-Mole type of creation using a synchronized video, light-activated computer screen and automated tee. If the student swings in an erroneous fashion, the ball disappears under the mat before it can be hit. As a "Golf Digest" story notes, the teaching system, called Accelerized Golf, can be summarized as "Pavlov meets Rube Goldberg."
Tempo Versus Technique
Yale physics professor Robert Grober, a former college golfer at Vanderbilt University, created a sensor that fits inside the top of a golf club to gauge rhythm and tempo. If your tempo is smooth, the sensor rewards you with a pleasant musical tone, an audio interpretation of the swing heard through a wireless headset. An off-tempo, out-of-rhythm swing, however, produces a wailing sound. A faster swing with more clubhead speed increases the volume of the tone. The focus is on tempo, not mechanics, which is often overlooked in golf instruction.
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