So let’s talk about the new Eye FI SD card for the Casio range of cameras. There are two choices in our view. Either the Eye Fi Video Share or the Eye FI video pro but it will all depend on where you coach.
The Share version needs to use a Wi-Fi zone to transfer the data to your machine so for those or you that do not have WI FI access where you coach then this is not the SD card for you. The Pro version however is able to use Ad hoc technology so as long as your computer has WI FI then your will be able to transfer the data with ease.
The range is also impressive if you are using outdoors you can transfer data up to 90 feet away and indoors 45 feet away. Just think no cables a god send for us coaches.
The Eye Fi card is a must have solution for the Casio camera.Â
Go to our Eye fi card page on our site to purchase.
Our Brand new High speed video system GASP Video HS has now been release. The system which is built on the te GASP lab platform is compatible with all of the Casio High speed cameras and boasts many of the features of GASP lab including the ebook editor, this tool enables the coach or academy to send branded lessons to pupils own personal online manual (see an example at this link Online Manual using merv as the username and testing as the password.) Windows silverlight should also be installed which can be optained for FREE from Microsofts’ website Silverlite. You also have the ability to send video analysis to smartphones such as the Iphone and blackberry.Â
The PGA of GB & I have now started to use the GASP lab video software. Starting with the year 3 students who will recieve the GASP lab video software for FREE along with a selection of golf swings to analysis.Â
Passing through the PGA training program some 27 years ago it has given us a chance to give something back to the PGA to improve an already first class training program.
We are pleased to announce that we have launched our online ebook manual for students with rave reviews at Golf Europe 2009.Â
The system will allow students to view not only video lessons and drills but also to add text, reviews and pictures producing an online manual over time for student and coaches to refer to.
This new innovation the first of its kind in video instruction opens up a more professional and cost effective way to communicate with your student.
As coaches we all face the ever increasing competition from fellow coaches. Why should a student keep coming to you for tuition with so many other coaches to choose from. Â
The ebook online manual, not only produces you a better communication tool than any other available product it makes sure that if you have students and use the online manual system they will always have to come to you or your academy to have it updated.Â
Finding new pupils is hard enough keeping those pupils is something we must all strive for. The Ebook Online Manual will encourage them to return to you time after time.
In the past we have all tried to give pupils things to take away with them from our golf schools and golf lessons. Here we get a chance to do this more style and branding but also saving us in cost in relation to printing, mailing and time.
For those larger academies the cost of producing manuals it huge here there is no cost.
History repeated itself this week in Holland as the climax to this week’s tour event saw English man Simon Dyson repeat his winning feet three years ago by winning the KLM Dutch open, moving him up to 28th on the European Tour order of merit.
Whilst watching his interview on SKY Sports at the end of the tournament he commented that the course he felt very comfortable on as in his words “It’s a course that bombers of the ball had no real advantageâ€
Interested that he feels that he can target this event where he feels he has a better chance of winning as he admits he’s not the longest of hitters.
So I have a look at his driving stats and especially the distance off the tee which is an average of 287 years. Simon feels that he is at a disadvantage perhaps due to his driving distance by I have to say I was shocked that he feels that 287 yards is not long enough on some courses. With the tours leading distance driver Alvaro Quiros of 315 years so that’s a good 50 yards behind.
I looks like driving the ball a long way these days is vital to compete on some of the courses played on the tour. I’m not so sure that’s a good thing though.
May be Nike Golf can help Simon get a few more yards off the tee.
With the release of the new apple Iphone golfers are now able to video themselves and email the clips to their coaches for analysis in GASP lab. This can either be done via the standard internet lesson option in GASP Lab or via our all new internet 3d manual option called ebook where you are able to add pages including video’s, text, picture to totally customise the look and feel of your club or academy.
To view out example lesson ebook select this link Internet lesson Ebook. You may be asked to download Microsoft Silverlite as plugin to view the ebook demo which you should do.
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To view video from the Iphone 3Gs select Iphone video link.
Many of our customers already use the unlimited internet lesson option that comes FREE with our integrated online booking system and we have pushed the boat out even further with our new ebook concept. Where you are able to design your own online 3D manual for your students allowing both coach, administrators, pupils to view not just todays or yesterdays lessons but to view the whole history of lessons taken.
I would like to get a section on my blog going listing ways in which coaches have found ways of communication changes with success to their pupils or other things they have picked up from seminars they have attended where they have come away with some good ideas.
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I’ll get the ball rolling with something I heard at a PGA teaching conference in Denmark a couple of years ago.
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The speaker who will remain nameless on the whole was not great however he said one thing that has stuck in my mind ever since.
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He was talking about the importance of creating a stretch through all of the joints and muscle groups during the backswing and he was explaining how the shoulders should make the hips turn. Nothing new there, except he worded it such a way that I had not come across before.
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He said “The hips get recruited by the shoulders in the backswing creating a stretchâ€Â I use that exact same description when I try and explain the movement of the hips especially in the swing to my pupils.
I have to pass on some information that one our customers told me about the other day in passing.
Over a couple of years he and his staff have been developing a Junior Golf Academy in the area. This included tuition in all elements of the game, organisation of competitions, games and obtaining handicaps. Nothing new there I think all coaches and clubs have been doing this for years.
He then went onto say that he had 150 kids paying him an annual subscription if around £250 per year, which was taken by direct debit £30 per month. This included range balls, membership, tuition and with the help of the golf committee a structure for the kids to move into the main body of the club. He then added that that he had the same amount of kids on a waiting list to join.
So first lets do the maths. 150 kids paying £250 per year £37,500 of which £15,000 went to club in the way of membership and £22,500 towards wages for his coaching staff and administration.
When I heard this the next thing I did was sit down with my coaching staff and develop our own program, which is now growing well.
You do have to get the golf club on side to help run the program but its great to see te kids having so much fun and we can se some of them start to develop into to good played. You never know one or two may make a living out of it.
