How to Film and Send Your Swing

Your private coaching space runs on CoachNow, the free app where you send me your swings and I send back your video. It's set up as soon as you buy.

1. Download the free CoachNow app from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Sign in with the email address you used to buy your Assessment. If you were sent an invite, tap Sign Up and Join in the email, or enter the 6-digit code in the app. The link only works once; after that, just sign in.
3. Open your coaching space. You'll find a welcome message from me at the top.
4. Turn on notifications, so you see my video the moment it's ready.

Says "email already in use"? You already have a CoachNow account, so sign in instead. Can't find the invite? Check your spam folder.

What you'll need

• Your phone, with plenty of battery and storage
• Something to hold it steady: a phone tripod, or a phone clip on an alignment stick pushed into the ground. Not propped on your bag or the ground.
• Two alignment sticks or clubs to lay on the ground
• Your 7-iron and driver
• Somewhere to hit: a range bay, a net or the course. Daylight in front of you is best; filming into the sun turns you into a silhouette.
• Clothes that fit and stand out from the background

Set up your phone

• Film in landscape, with the phone on its side.
• Zoom fully out, then move the phone to frame the shot. Don't use zoom.
• Use slow motion if your phone has it (120 or 240 frames per second). Normal speed is fine if it doesn't.
• Record a five-second test and check it before you start.

Face-on

• Put the phone at hand height (about hip height), level, not tilted.
• Stand it 2 to 3 metres away, directly opposite your hands, facing your chest.
• Check the frame: your whole body, the ball, and the club at the top of your swing are all in shot, with your feet near the bottom.

Down the line

• Lay a stick on the ground in line with your hands at address, pointing at your target.
• Put the phone 2.5 to 3 metres behind you, on that stick's line, at hand height, pointing at the target.
• Not on the line from the ball to the target, and not behind your feet. A phone a little off line makes your swing look different from how it is.
• Check the frame: whole body, ball and club at the top all in shot.

Left-handed?

Everything is the same, just mirrored. Face-on, the phone faces your chest. Down the line, it sits behind your hands, pointing at the target.

What to film

• Four short videos: 7-iron face-on, 7-iron down the line, driver face-on, driver down the line.
• Three swings in each video, hit with your normal routine. Your usual swings, not your best three.
• After each shot, say "good" or "bad", or where it went, so I know the result.
• Launch monitor numbers? Post a screenshot too. They're welcome but not needed.

• Phone steady, in landscape, zoomed out, at hand height
• Face-on: opposite your hands, 2 to 3 metres away
• Down the line: on your hand line, 2.5 to 3 metres back
• Whole body, ball and club at the top in every shot
• Three normal swings in each of the four videos
• Light in front of you, not behind
• Form filled in