Suggestion for all those who submit swings for review

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Jim Kobylinski

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Just a couple suggestions for all of you who are posting swings for us to review:

1) On down the line views do your very best to make sure everyhing is as parallel as possible. If you get the angle from the left or the right it will make your swing look a certain way that it wouldn't look in reality if we were there.

2) Make sure you try and send us a video of your "bad shot." I was helping someone at the range last night who hit the most beautiful 7 iron, followed by a really bad pushed one. To help this person the most if i only had video, it would be better to have the video of the "bad swing" so we can help with your main problems when things aren't going well.

3) Find yourself a really cheap Canon camera with a 60fps movie mode. I'd have to guess that about 90% of all Canon digital cameras have a 60fps movie mode. This is pretty suffcient to get the majority of frames we need to see, especially around impact. I'm sure you can pick up an older model on ebay for cheap and is a good investment. I mean the top of the line Canon Powershot SD800IS is about $300 now so there shouldn't be a problem finding something a little bigger and a little older for half the price.

Thanks
 
Matt 4-L

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Are there any free online programs to compress video so it can be uploaded easier on youtube or putfile? When I posted my swing awhile back I had to cut the video really short because the file was so big and it takes a very long time to load a video not compressed, plus youtube has a size limit...Also, how do you post swing seq. pictures like some of you guys do? Thanks.
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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LOL...you guys are asking questions outside my technological expertise. However i did just find out last night that when you pause a video you can get a screenshot of it by pressing "print screen" or there might even be a copy function (as in quicktime). Then you can paste that paused frame in a photo editor like paint or photoshop and drawn as many lines as you'd like lol.
 
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Bigwill

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On down the line shots, should the camera be in line with the target line, or the body line (I'm thinking the latter)?
 
Matt 4-L

Matt 4-L

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Waist height, in the middle of the toe line and target line, approx. 15 feet back. Those are V1's instructions.
 
bergsey

bergsey

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Shoot through the hands

Bigwill said:
On down the line shots, should the camera be in line with the target line, or the body line (I'm thinking the latter)?
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Camera at hand height, in line with the hands whether down the line or face on. i.e. 'shooting through the hands'
 
birdie_man

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Hey I was looking at the DTL vid of MFinney that I assume Tongz shot......

Seemed to be looking right down the target line. (which seemed to be too far to the right of the golfer)

So....

Do you want it looking thru the hands at address as was suggested above? With the target centered with the hands? Or the target to the right of the hands? (i.e. parallel)

DTL ones are tough..........want to get a handle on this.
 
tongzilla

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IMHO, ideally for down-the-line footage, you want to catch the straight ball flight, so the ball shoots in a straight direction from the camera's view. Of course, you don't know whether it's going push/pull/slice, etc. before you film it. And around hand height is best.
 
birdie_man

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Ah yes....I guess it prolly matters what ur looking for too eh. I was just thinking from a swing angles POV. I don't know that you can get it perfect tho however you do it.....I do realize.
 
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Jared Willerson

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tongzilla said:
IMHO, ideally for down-the-line footage, you want to catch the straight ball flight, so the ball shoots in a straight direction from the camera's view. Of course, you don't know whether it's going push/pull/slice, etc. before you film it. And around hand height is best.
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Leo, I really wish you would put that swing of Finney's you have down the line up in Quicktime so we could freeze frame it. That swing video really shows how pure his swing is.
 
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