Videotape Your Swing
Using your smartphone camera or video camera, we need both down-the-line and face-on views to do a proper analysis of your swing.
Here are a few tips to get you started:
- It helps to have a tripod or something to rest the camera or smartphone on.
- Position yourself directly behind the student, this is the down-the-line shot.
- Height of camera should be hand-high when at your address position
- Begin recording and hit two shots with whatever club you want.
- Stop recording and move camcorder to the face-on position
- Record two more shots with the same club.
- Stop recording
- Review your video to make sure you can see your entire body and club swinging within the screen.
Upload Your Video
You will need the V-1 software and you have three ways to upload the video,
Using the free V-1 PC Desktop app, download and install it here.
- Take your camcorder or smartphone and save your swing video to your home computer in mpg, and avi format.
- Then you’re ready to upload it to the Stephen Packer Golf right through your computer using V1 Home software.
- The software has a simple step by step video tutorial to make this process painless.
Using the V-1 Droid smartphone app (Free) download it here.
- Install the App
- Log-in or create a new account
- Capture/Import video your swing
- Analyze Video (this needs to be done first in order to get the video into a format V1 Pro understands)
- Click MENU > Upload/Assign
- If Stephen Packer Golf isn’t in the Choose an Academy list, click (Add a New Academy) and add it. Otherwise, select Stephen Packer Golf Online Academy.
- Select an Instructor (There is only me).
- Wait for the Upload to finish.
- Once the video is analyzed by your instructor, it will be moved to the Locker/Analyzed list where you are able to view it.
Using the iPhone or iPad app (£2.99) download it here.
- Install the app
- Log-in or create a new account
- Select Stephen Packer Golf and then your instructor; if not listed, click the + button to select the academy from a list, then the instructor
- Click on “Stephen Packer Golf” with your pro listed
- Click Camera button to film a video, trim as necessary
- From the analysis window, take the following steps:
- click the V1 Logo
- click “Send Video” then
- click “Upload to Locker”
- Once upload completes, it is automatically assigned to the instructor selected in step 2.
- Video will be listed on the Locker/Uploaded tab in the app
- Once the video is analyzed by your instructor, it will be moved to the Locker/Analyzed list where you are able to view it.
That should be it! Sit back and give us 5 days to fully analyze your swing.
If you have any questions at all, please email them to steve@stephenpackergolf.com and we will be happy to help you out.
Thanks again!