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Hey all. I've been recording my swing since 2004 and have some video tips for everyone:
1) Hit a ball when filming. Swinging at air in your back yard is not the same as hitting a ball.
2) Use a tripod. Put the camera at about waist height, between the toe line and the target line for a down-the-line view.
3) Increase the shutter speed. This will eliminate blur. If light is too low (which for me it is when I'm in the dome) this might not be possible. Some cameras have manual settings for the shutter speed, others have a "sports" mode. Go to 1/2000 of a second if you can.
4) Lay down alignment sticks. This is particularly important if you're hitting off of grass so that we can see where you're aligned. If you're hitting off of a mat, align yourself square to the mat. You can use an extra club, or you can buy plastic sticks from Home Depot or Lowes for $2 a piece.
If you're looking for a new camera, I cannot recommend more highly the Casio line of high speed cameras. Not only do they do high speed (210 frames/sec), but they do HD video, standard video, and still photos. See my 4-wood video for a sample. It's recorded with a Casio FH-20. At 210 FPS, you get 7 times the information than a standard video camera. It also does 420 fps, but the resolution is lower.
From what I understand, Samsung is coming out with their own high speed camera Spring of 2010 and the specs look pretty good!
Anyway, hope this helps!
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Great Tips LarryBud.
I was thinking about other things a Golfer could do to make their videos easier to interpret.
Things like: wearing golf gloves with marks on them, using a club with half the shaft one color, the other half a different color. Things like this ... I am going to try to come up with some practical tips.
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Another thing that I have done was to get some plastic "stickers" from the office supply store and mark the shaft right below the grip. The stickers don't actually have adhesive on them, but I wrap them around the shaft and tuck an edge under the bottom of the grip.
Use a different color for each club (I use 3 different colors, for the 5,6,7, then 8,9,W)
This enables you to tell what club you were using in the video. Although my 5 and 8 have the same color, I'm able to tell visually which club out of the two it is.
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To see if their swing keeps the clubface square we could get them to swing a few with this tool ! http://www.swingvision.com/Haha.
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 (1) Wear Two gloves (2) Mark them up like this. (3) A bad grip would be easier to see for analysis !
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