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GOLF SWING MOBILE from GASP Systems Ltd is available for the iPhone, Ipad, iTouch designed by one of the leading Golf Swing Analysis Software developers in the world.

Buy the system for one of your Apple devices and get to use the APP on all your other devices for FREE.

Reviews

Finally - ★★★★★

by Adymac04 - Version 1.02 25 July 2011

Just as expected from a company like GASP. I have every other swing app on the Market and finally I now have an app that combines everything that is good in one.

Fantastic..

Best Regards
Adrian Rietveld
PGA Professional &
Taylor Made Performance Centre
Wentworth Golf Club

Golf Swing APP Download for Apple Ipad, iPhone and Itouch .

FEATURES:

CAPTURE and PLAY:

*Capture video directly from the camera on the iPad2, iPhone4, 3G, 3GS, iTouch.

*Import Videos from you device library and from Apple Camera connection kit.

*Edit/Trim Videos

*Play videos at regular speed, frame by frame, slow motion with our advanced finger scroll gesture.

COMPARISON

* 2 - Window Split Screen analyses in landscape and portrait modes.

*Mirror/Lefty Tool,Silhouette, Pro Library using up to 300FPS camera footage, Zoom and Pan.

GAME IMPROVEMENT

Swing Drills from Teaching Professionals, Send video to your coach via email or internet system. Draw Tools including, Circle, Line, Rectangle, Freehand – Resize and move easily with the select tool.

About GASP Systems Ltd

With over 15 Years’ experience in the golf and sport motion analysis business GASP System provides more solutions to National PGA bodies including but not limited to the British, Dutch, Irish, Spanish, German, Danish, Sri-Lanka PGA’s than any other company today. Tour Players and Broadcast companies also use the system extensively and with over 10,000 software systems in the market and continued development using the latest technology we are continually pushing the envelope to create a rich and simple user experience.

We appreciate any feedback to help develop our product to improve all levels of users experience and would appreciate your comments.

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Online Security

Today I received what looked like a calculator from my Bank who now uses this system for Business Customers to login into their online bank accounts.  With online Banking fraud costing business £95 million a year you can understand why banks are trying to protect themselves.  How does that affect us Golf Professionals though.   Anytime you use a username or password on a third part website or on a free WI-FI area like airports, internet café’s that do not use encrypted password systems you are venerable to what’s known in the trade as sniffing.  This is what Google were doing when they were doing their street map exercise. 
Fraudsters know this and target those areas for other info.  Many people, who use usernames and passwords tend to use the same ones over and over again, seldom change them and it’s only a matter of time before they crack your important login info. for sites such as ebay, amazon and bank accounts.

When we were deciding how we would secure our ebook systems it was pretty plain that all info would need to be held on our server and this is where the login would need to be also, rather than embedding login and review sections on our customer’s website.  Using this third party option makes the system open to hacking. That means if login sections are on your website and your server is not actually hosting the information you are open to attack especially if there is a password retrieval option.
Punishment for improper security is pretty severe if it traces back to you. In the US the FBI take a dim view if they find out an unsecure system and fines are very heavy.
There are some simple but great tips available from John on the Gadget show Episode 13 part 2.

Gadget Show video on internet security

Due for release in December 2010 is the K-vest upgrae softe 4.3.  Whatch the video below for further information.

One of the better ones I have seen.

In golf today, there’s surprisingly only one comprehensive benchmarking system for shot results at various distances - ShotLink. ShotLink measures every shot made on the PGA TOUR to within inches, allowing players to, among other things, understand their shot making skills and abilities from any distance and situation. This gives PGA TOUR players the unique opportunity to study shot statistics to determine their strengths and weaknesses relative to every other player on TOUR. For example, ShotLink statistics for the 2009 season reveal that Steve Stricker was the best player for Approach Shots from 75 to 100 yards, with an average result at 13′0″, while Phil Mickelson’s rank for the same category was 112th at 18′4″. Unfortunately, ShotLink data is available only to those players talented and fortunate enough to compete on the PGA TOUR.

Players using TrackMan Combine at the Driving Range
 
Outside of big time tournament golf and self tabulated stats applications, shot making results data for the great majority of golfers is lacking. Consider the following scenarios:

• An 18 handicap amateur in Michigan wants to compare his shot making ability from 100 yards to PGA TOUR players, as well to scratch golfers and other 18 handicap amateurs around the world.
• Your client’s high school son or daughter wants to know if they have the potential to compete in Division I, II, or III college golf.
• You’re a golf instructor and want to set improvement goals together with your clients. You need to establish current skill level and demonstrate measurable improvement. You desire a standardized evaluation metric with a shorter feedback cycle than handicap index.
• A college golf coach would like a standardized golf test, similar to SAT score, allowing a quick assessment of a player’s potential in order to determine recruiting priority. The test can also be used with active team members to identify strengths and weaknesses, as well provide focused practice routines.
• A serious player wants to evaluate their equipment and technique strategy for various scoring zones.

The TrackMan Combine has been designed to address scenarios like this and more.

Objectives of the TrackMan combine:
• Standardized Test - Objective, easy to administer and repeat
• Time Efficient - 1 hour or less
• Immediate Feedback
• Test results automatically hosted online - always accessible to both coach/teacher and player
• Cover a wide spectrum of shot types
• Benchmark skill and offer global peer rankings, comparisons
• Initiate discussions about technique, equipment, and goal setting
• Offer TrackMan customers additional ROI

Combine Test Procedure
The combine consists of 80 shots and lasts on average 45 minutes. Upon completion of the test, the administrator (coach/instructor) uploads the test result data to www.mytrackman.com/Combine/Pro.html. Immediately following, test results are available online for administrator and player to review. The player can also log in later with his/her unique log in details to review results at home or in the office.

Every player will receive detailed and summary results on the following:
• Distance from Pin at every yardage
• Drive Distance
• Offline for Drives
• Percentile Rankings for every shot category
• TrackMan Combine Score

Beyond the score, shot results accuracy, and percentile ranking data, up to 21 TrackMan data parameters are measured and reported for every shot made during a combine session. This means that instructors and coaches have the opportunity to check combine data to review club delivery tendencies, and club fitters can use the Driver launch statistics including ball speed, launch angle, spin rate, and land angle to learn if the driver being used is optimal for the player.

Who can administer and upload a TrackMan Combine?
Combine tests must be conducted outdoors and any current TrackMan customer may administer a combine test and upload the data for analysis.

So today we attended with many other golf professionals the stack and tilt seminar at the Belfry.  Presented by Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett.
So what it all about?? The swing model has certainly come in for some stick over the last couple of years from pundits and coaches in the US so everyone was intrigued to hear what Andy and Mike had to say especially as some of their pupil on Tour have shown improvement and success.
The session started with the address position where using photographic evidence of successful golf professional over the years it was pointed out that there are very few common grips, alignment, aim and postures.  So what do the tour pro’s have in common?
(1) Being able to hit the ground in exactly the same place.
(2) Ability to generate enough power to hit the ball far enough to play and control the flight.
Andy pointed out that everything else was pretty much variable, there was evidence that some combinations of certain parts of the setup and swing work well together.  But the two things above is something that all top players all have in common.
The weight distribution for a right handed player starts more to the left approx. 60% with the right at 40%.  As you move towards the top of the backswing the weight stays the same keeping the slight spine lean slightly right at around 5 – 10 degrees. (no reverse spine tilt there).  Sounds like the way I coach pitching.
The next point in the backswing the hand working in an arc in the takeaway which makes sense as the torso is rotating getting the club to point at the target line (plane) and through the right elbow area.  Sound enough there in my view.
Left leg straightening creating a larger hip turn.  That’s certainly different from what is the populist methods of creating more lower body resistance by keeping the right knee more flexed, but perhaps what is lost in stretch is gained a larger rotation and swing.
So let,s just stop there and think of some of Ben Hogan’s swings, Johnny Miller, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson.  There is evidence that these type of methods we employed by these players at their height so is coaching moving full circle back towards what was the norm in that era.
So at this stage not too controversial and certainly their ideas have been misrepresented in the media and TV.
More to come on the Stack and Tilt seminar in my next post.