Recording Your Swing

[Yelellav]

I am curious if people find it useful to record there swing on their phones while at the range?  I have been doing this for a while and it has helped me see what I am doing wrong.  The one thing I don't like is going back and forth to the phone to start and stop the recording.

Do you guys find it helpful?

[Zeph]

I have recorded my swing quite a lot, but never with a phone. I only use cameras with high speed mode so I can see the entire swing frame by frame. If I didn't have a camera, I'd buy one. :-P A phone works too of course, you get lots of feedback from 60FPS too, but it's not ideal. FPS over megapixels any day. I got gorillapods and tripods, so I could buy a mount for my phone and record with, no problem, but as long as I have high speed cameras, I don't need it.

[jamo]

We've got an entire forum of recorded swings. Some with dedicated cameras, a few with phones. http://thesandtrap.com/f/4180/member-swings

[shamus]

I found it helpful until a couple weeks ago. Big gust of wind came up at the range and knocked my tripod over, destroying my camera.

[iacas]

No. Using camera phones is fine if it's all you've got, but in general, blech. No thanks. Casio high-speed cameras.

[Jarrod Putnam]

I was intending to use an app on my iPhone which allowed me to slow down the recording to a desired speed, along with sketching in the video. I ended up fixing the part of my swing that I was trying to see in the video before I got a chance to actually try it. But the application was pretty decent quality. Recording your swing can help alot (if you get a chance lol)

[yatzr]

Originally Posted by iacas

No. Using camera phones is fine if it's all you've got, but in general, blech. No thanks. Casio high-speed cameras.

Just this weekend, I tried recording my swing with my phone and then with a usb webcam.  I was trying to work on my hand position at impact, but both of those cameras were failing miserably.  I've been looking at casio zr100s on ebay.  I really wish there was a cheaper option to get to the 300+ fps range