Never have I had a pitching aid of this magnitude before. Then again, later, as we review the video recordings together, this speed is linked to a video of a pitch or hit. When the audio setting is turned on in the app, and the volume turned up on the mobile phone, as the softball pitchers make adjustments, they get speed feedback, verbally, in real-time from the app. Now she visually understands, and understanding is at least half the battle. A 5′ 8″, 16-year-old girl that recently came to me with her fastball stuck in the mid-50s for the last few years is now throwing high-50s/low-60s because I made suggestions while comparing upper-half and lower-half timing adjustments in videos related to speed recordings from the radar. In my pitching lessons, I have already been able to help girls gain speed with this device. The possibilities for me now as a pitching coach to teach girls about mechanical adjustments and how these adjustments impact velocity are unparalleled! As a coach, parent, or instructor you are now able to not only track and record speeds within the radar device, but now allows for video recording and viewing in the app while attaching the specific video to the specific speed, with history listing! Never before have I been able to as easily track speed increases or decreases and be able to visually relate that increase or decrease directly to mechanics of the athlete, in a high resolution, slow-motion speed-scrubbing video no less. The second advantage of the Smart Coach is the one that just seemingly blows the roof off of the potential for this radar gun, which will also tremendously distance itself from the radar competition… the app.Whopping 6-48 hours with a USB power pack! Maybe 2 hours with NiMH rechargeable batteries Example: benefit comparison of battery Life with Smart Coach ‘constant-on’ mode:.As a softball coach or pitching and hitting instructor, you can spend less time and money changing batteries and more time analyzing and teaching using the device while tracking speeds in lessons. The Smart Coach with its new right angle USB attachment (sold separately) allows for the connection to have either a lipstick USB charger, which can last six hours in constant-on position, or then you can even plug the USB into a wall outlet through one of those white iPhone cubes that we’re likely all familiar with. The one advantage is you will no longer need to frequently change 2 AAA batteries or even rechargeable AAA(s), which typically would last at the most an hour if you utilized the constant-on setting.The Ball Coach with the blue button was a bit better than the red button original Pocket Radar, but like I mentioned before, there are two significant advantages to the Smart Coach Radar that even the better blue-button radar didn’t have. The Smart Coach Radar is the third in a series of Pocket Radar’s. Smart Coach Pocket Radar on tripod with iPhone using the tripod accessory sold separately. The intent of this post is to give a broad overview and to evaluate the product’s worthiness priced at $399, and base any recommendation off of my testing. There’s a lot of information and tips on different ways to use the device out there, but that is not the intent of this post. I put some time into a Smart Coach Pocket Radar review because I’ve spent a few months testing it out directly in my softball pitching and hitting lessons. It was designed for use by law enforcement to give a pocket-size device for use to check traffic speeds. The red button Pocket Radar, for your information, turns out was never designed for tracking softball pitch or bat speed. Having used the original red button Pocket Radar for years and frequently getting frustrated with trying to catch in one hand and time holding the red button down (while timing when the pitcher’s arm was in the 12 o’clock position) in the other it will come as no shock that I was ready to try something new. It hooks up to an app, which records video and ties the video to the speed of pitch or exit velocity of a softball off a bat!.You can now power it with a 5 volt USB battery pack or plug it into an A/C wall outlet with a USB cube.Two significant changes in the newest Pocket Radar, called the Smart Coach Radar are:
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