2014 PGA Merchandise Show Update

[Richie3Jack]

I'll probably write about my experiences either tomorrow or Friday. Tuesday I got up at 8am and went to Demo Day. Because of the rain and getting stuck waiting for the shuttles back to the OCCC, I couldn't go back home and then make it to the Open Forum 2 at West Orange CC. So I got something to eat and headed over to the Open Forum 2 at 5pm. That lasted to 11pm. And by then I had a couple of instructors looking for stats analysis for their players which I wanted to make sure I got done, so....I didn't get to bed until 4am. Wednesday I didn't get up until noon and headed over to the show. Then talked to some instructors about a Tour player and working together. Got done and then headed up over to Tweet Up 3.0 and didn't leave until 11:30pm.

Tomorrow I go back to my real work and deal with the hoopla and hysteria that happens in the corporate world when you take 2 days off in the middle of the week.

But I have had a ton of fun. Demo Day was solid. I really, really, really enjoyed the Open Forum 2. Nick Chertock, Chris Como and whomever else set this up should be super proud of what they put together. There were no fireworks which is an accomplishment in itself. But, I learned a lot and even myself and Fredrik Tuxen came into agreement about the hitting up with the driver.

The show I enjoyed. It wasn't as great as the 2011 show when so much new stuff was coming out, but this year there was more new stuff and I believe that forum member, fullback, has something really special in the Noitum MySwing motion capture analysis. He was surprised when I told him how impressed I was with this. No exaggeration, I think this stuff is really SPECIAL. And very affordable ($100 to $150).

Anyway, I'll get to it when I can. I'm tired and need some sleep.

P.S. - Lloyd Higley with the line of the year 'I'm not even a Lloyd Higley guy!'





3JACK

[dhc1]

Rich,

I'd love to hear more about Noitum MySwing motion capture analysis when you get the time.

Thanks.

[fullback]

I just got back to Japan a few days ago from the show, so I'm a little late in responding here. Thanks for the kind words, Richie. I think this is really good stuff, too.

I wish I had more time to talk with Richie, but I was pretty busy at the booth all day, every day. Our booth was kind of stuck off in a corner, but we still had quite a bit of traffic. Some of the big names in human kinetics stopped by to talk with us, including Phil Cheetham and Dr. Sasho MacKenzie.

We were the first company in the world to make wireless, high-speed full body motion capture. We do all the development (hardware, firmware and software) in house. It's used in movies, animation, video games, etc.

Video-based systems using reflectors attached to the body and club require a lot of setup and can't be used outdoors. And they cost 6 figures . . .

Our system is scalable and portable. It can be used anywhere and setup time is in minutes, not hours of attaching reflectors.

The smallest scale has two sensors - one for the club and one for the body. You can attach it to your back, pelvis or lead wrist and the body data is synchronized with club motion. You isolate one body part at a time with the club motion and it's displayed on a smart device app.

Let's say you use the shoulder/back sensor. You don't need two video cameras to capture face on and DTL views. You can see immediately through the 3D app if you've maintained primary tilt, increased secondary tilt and can check when your backswing and shoulder turn stop at the same time. Of course, you see shoulder deflection in degrees throughout the swing and rotation speed at any point.

And it's all synchronized with your club swing data. We can give a reasonable estimate of swing speed, path, face-to-path, dynamic loft, lie, angle of attack, etc. It's not a launch monitor and not perfect, but it's pretty darn good.

So, it's something the consumer and the golf pro can easily afford.

Link>>

Worldwide distribution should start in a few months and more information will be out soon...

[teeace]

Feb 2, 2014 8:20:56 GMT -5 fullback said:

We were the first company in the world to make wireless, high-speed full body motion capture. We do all the development (hardware, firmware and software) in house. It's used in movies, animation, video games, etc.

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We were doing that already at 2006

Anyway you seem to have great product and I'm happy to see analyzing devices going to that direction.

Also very interested to see some of your analyzes compared to other devices and us.

[dhc1]

Feb 2, 2014 8:20:56 GMT -5 fullback said:

I just got back to Japan a few days ago from the show, so I'm a little late in responding here. Thanks for the kind words, Richie. I think this is really good stuff, too.

I wish I had more time to talk with Richie, but I was pretty busy at the booth all day, every day. Our booth was kind of stuck off in a corner, but we still had quite a bit of traffic. Some of the big names in human kinetics stopped by to talk with us, including Phil Cheetham and Dr. Sasho MacKenzie.

We were the first company in the world to make wireless, high-speed full body motion capture. We do all the development (hardware, firmware and software) in house. It's used in movies, animation, video games, etc.

Video-based systems using reflectors attached to the body and club require a lot of setup and can't be used outdoors. And they cost 6 figures . . .

Our system is scalable and portable. It can be used anywhere and setup time is in minutes, not hours of attaching reflectors.

The smallest scale has two sensors - one for the club and one for the body. You can attach it to your back, pelvis or lead wrist and the body data is synchronized with club motion. You isolate one body part at a time with the club motion and it's displayed on a smart device app.

Let's say you use the shoulder/back sensor. You don't need two video cameras to capture face on and DTL views. You can see immediately through the 3D app if you've maintained primary tilt, increased secondary tilt and can check when your backswing and shoulder turn stop at the same time. Of course, you see shoulder deflection in degrees throughout the swing and rotation speed at any point.

And it's all synchronized with your club swing data. We can give a reasonable estimate of swing speed, path, face-to-path, dynamic loft, lie, angle of attack, etc. It's not a launch monitor and not perfect, but it's pretty darn good.

So, it's something the consumer and the golf pro can easily afford.

Link>>

Worldwide distribution should start in a few months and more information will be out soon...

Fullback,

congrats and good luck. Seems like a very cost effective teaching/learning tool.

Best of luck.