Wow. Check out this little device. I think it would be cool to practice with this on the range or on the course. The data can be shown on you mobile device. For $140, I want one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnKKAoQ9jU
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Wow. Check out this little device. I think it would be cool to practice with this on the range or on the course. The data can be shown on you mobile device. For $140, I want one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnKKAoQ9jU
I like it!!!! It looks accurate and is well priced. I will definitely get one once out.
If it's accurate, it should sell like hotcakes. Put me down for one Cory.
Ive worked out how to make the zelocity tracker accurate- buy one of these and turn the zelocity to OFF
LOL!!!!Good one. You can probably put other names in place of Zelocity and it would still be true.
You guys are the best!!!!
Sounds much like the PocketPro announced last year that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.... http://www.pocketpro.org/index.html
Whatever happened to that Pocket Pro? Anyone have it?
interesting... I was talking to someone about this the other day. I will test it against the flightscope x2 and see what the difference is.
Excellent!!! Let us know!!!!
It wont be any time soon. I should have access to both devices in March/ April but will do
They should have called it iSwingbyte then they could have charged a higher price and nobody would have expected it to have any real function;)
Company is in Northbrook, IL which is about an hour and 20 minutes from me. There's a golf show at the end of the month and it looks like they will have a booth there. I plan and going to the show. Somebody mentioned on GolfWRX that it might be available in April.
This is an interesting little device and would be pretty useful on the range if it works as advertised...signed up on their website so wondering if we may get a chance to order before its release?....anyway, can't wait to try this out
My client (who tested this out in the video posted) felt that it was very accurate for the price. I am anxious to get one and test it out against our other systems :) I'll post a review here as soon as we have one in and tested.
Happy Golfing,
Cory
Got an email saying it is now available for pre-order
Am I the first to pre-order? $149
shipping April
I think I might have just beat you! Can't wait - hope it works as advertised
I am working with them right now to bring an inventory into Canada and be able to sell it from Canada and the US to anywhere in the world. Same price :)
Very cool Cory. Do ypou have any new info on this product? Whatever happended with the pocket pro? Anyone?
Nothing new yet, but I have asked them for the tolerances, etc. and they said that they are still working on that.
I would hope that their testing and results are a lot mroe detailed than that. We are currently testing the Technique with hundreds of swings and still narrowing down the average tolerances. :)
Yes I appreciate it is more than 10 but a calculator can help them do it quicker
Just got notice that I will be able to sell the SwingBytes in Canada!!! :)
What about this unit? Called the iTrainer. http://www.insight-sports.com/index_...d=4&didpath=/4
Sounds like the same thing as the Swingbyte except that it actually exists!
The itrainer mini and the iconsole says available March 2012. It's available now? And how much?
I got an email from a Swingbyte rep two weeks ago and we were suppose to work out the details of me getting one for testing but he's been a no show so far. They're only 30 mins from me.
I don't know more than what's on the webpage. Both the iTrainer and iTrainerMini are listed in their online store ($400 and $200 respectively).
The iTrainer has testimonials from people who own them (including the Marshes Golf Club in Kanata for anyone who lives near there).
Didn't notice any testimonials for the mini but it is just a scaled down version of the iTrainer without the speakers/console etc so presumably works the same.
It seems to be similar design as the Swingbyte and "measures" basically the same stuff as far as I can tell. From their website (did you miss this?):
http://www.insight-sports.com/index_...d=6&didpath=/6
I did not go to the shop.
Calculates ball path, I wish they would just accept the limitations.
Accuracy is the biggest flaw of this gadget! It measures data based on the device location at the club grip level. At the head level things are totally different. The distance from the grip to the head and the shaft stiffness contribute a lot! to the data, and that simply cannot be interpolated properly by this device design principles.
Conclusion: waste of money.:(
I would think you have to take these things for what they can do for you and decide if it is worth it. If it can show an accurate swing path, back swing and follow through, then for me that alone is a great tool. Nothing else needed. You can play your simulator you have and then add this device to an ipod and just get that much more info on your swing that a camera would otherwise be need to do and then a good one at that to do it clearly. This device could be used without slowing down your computer or sim. as it needs not to be running on one.
I like the idea, as swing plane is one thing I want to see. Forget any other info.
SFR, I like the idea as well, but again, good idea should have a good implementation. Personally, I might not be interested in seeing pathway (even tho it might look nice, etc.) of my hands holding a grip if there're 2+ ft of the distance (that's where head is) where pathway is totally different, same goes for the speed and acceleration. So, imo, this is the case where visual representation of a product, which isn't accurate, overshadows the real job it should be doing. Do you personally want to see and learn from MISINTERPRETED results??? I don't.
Echo have you used one? Have you tested it against something else.
I am not prepared to write it off as a result of the unit being up at the grip. In theory it can stiil get the head data coirrect.
With enough testing we can then pass judgment.
I am closely familiar with the technology. It passes positioner and accelerometer data to the iphone via bluetooth. And those values are being passed from the points where the device actually is. The software is capable to change the coordinates (by adding roughly a couple feet too it that would take a shaft into consideration), but this interpolation has no idea about what's the actual club angle, so, you can see the data that look like what you expect to see but in reality swings are gonna vary from the trajectory significantly. Especially applies to new golfers
I imagine it measures tilt axis in 3d as well, which is how they calculate other data- same as PS3 move does.
I could be wrong.
Echo, in the video and website you can see there is a page on the app where you pick the club you are swinging, or you can add the values if its not on the data base, lie, loft, length etc.... I would think thats for the device to calculate data accurately.
This is the link, press on the "taylor your Mobile Golf Bag:
http://www.swingbyte.com/tour
Also, on the "record your swing" tab, it clearly says "9 iron" I am pretty sure this would have to do with all data calculations
What ever it says, just think about it for a moment: gyro and accelerometer - the only devices within that thing that know what's going on, and they are wherever your hands are, the rest is approximation, and any parameter that you can include would just adds up to the formula that tries to emulate the real positioning and speed. And if you account different stiffness grades and the way how it changes the form of a shaft during a swing, and how it impacts the speed of a head during downswing, then whatever is based on the calculations will have pretty significant % of approximation (as opposed to precision)