Comments on: New Stats straight from the first TrackMan session

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Trackman golf | Help and Aid Businesses — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:37:43 +0000

[...] New Stats straight from the first TrackMan session [...]

By: thedanplan

thedanplan — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:23:00 +0000

I’d love to post more videos, but those are on hiatus for a while until there is a budget for them. I wish I had more to offer, but that’s basically where it is at right now. I hope to have some new ones in the new year and think that it will be doable. Glad you liked them. Thanks!

By: dan

dan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:54:29 +0000

Charlie,

1. I definitely will and do swing more than five. I did five as a run through for K Anders Ericsson so he can get an idea of my current status and then will do a similar run through every two weeks for them to track progress.
2. It does accumulate data.
3. Not sure, I’ll look into that.
4. It does. I didn’t have it in this report, but in the big spreadsheet you get sidespin and a ton of other stats.
5. My coach is looking over this weekend and then we will chat about what the next steps are.
Thanks!!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:09:56 +0000

1) I hope you’ll do a session with 10-20 swings per club, to smooth out the data.
2) Does TrackMan accumulate data so you wouldn’t need to do item 1) ?
3) Does TrackMan have the capacity to display the median rather than the mean? If you’re making only 5 swings, as you pointed out, the outliers can exert too great an influence on the data.
4) Does TrackMan show sidespin or curve? So can you tell whether your fade or draw is consistent from club to club?
5) What does your coach say about the data?
6) To me, the most interesting thing on the entire page is the fact that the max heights of the pro’s clubs are so similar. Regardless of club, the top of the trajectory is just about 90 feet.

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:17:05 +0000

I have to agree with Blake. The videos were the most entertaining part of TDP. Please bring them back.

Toby

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:04:17 +0000

Hey Dan,

Great progress, just don´t fall into the trap of getting too technical and chasing the perfect swing. There is none. It´s about more than hitting a couple of lines on a video screen. It´s about hitting golf shots. The better you get as a player the less you should work on technique and the less you should use trackman. You need to hit golf shots. Don´t practice off mats. Hit off grass and ideally you want to have the ability to practice from tight lies, rough, uphill lies etc… Visualize holes on the range and then hit high draws, low fades and so on. That´s much more effective than repeating one motion over and over again. It´s ineffective because science has proven no two motions are ever exactly the same. You should completely stop working on technique if you can compress the ball, have enough power to play the course and have a predictable shot shape. Every swing changes you make after that will be cosmetic.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:18:37 +0000

Thanks Alan. Power-wise it’s getting a bit closer. Still have some growth to do, but it is a few hairs higher than last year which is good.

If I make it to Atlanta this Jan/Feb we shall have to tee it up.

How’s the game coming along this winter?