Over the last several years, baseball and softball programs have used video tools, integrating game reports and video, to develop individual player’s skills, scout opponent tendencies and evaluate player’s performances in games. Dartfish has a full set of video tools providing individual player practice review, as well as our game analysis tools that integrate player stat tools with video, for opponent scouting and evaluating your players’ performance in competition. One area in which toolsets have been lacking is in the area of team practice with player practice reviews but, just recently, Dartfish introduced a product that will take the use of video and practice performance feedback to new levels. The product is called Dartfish Note. What makes this toolset powerful is the way coaches can quickly review a player’s performance in practice and determine the areas that player needs to work on to improve. Coaches can review any player’s practice…
British Schools, supported by government IT inititaives, were quick to adopt video technologies and used Dartfish software from its early days to educate and give feedback. These early adopters have now recognized the potential and convenience of tablets with equal enthusiasm so that those who once fired up…
Despite its roots in sport, Dartfish has long been used by diverse activities for which video can contribute to understanding and assessment. Here’s one such example. Held each spring at Kennesaw State University’s Cole College of Business in Georgia, USA, the National Collegiate Sales Competition continues to draw…
Contributed by Chris Loxston, English Institute of Sport Performance Analyst. In September 2007 the British Table Tennis Association moved to Sheffield and enlisted the services of the English Institute of Sport to help support the programme through to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Chris Loxston is one of…
Kevin Smith, Principal Teacher of P.E., shares his experience working with Dartfish in this interview. Kevin, how and when did you first discover Dartfish? I first discovered Dartfish at a P.E. conference in Stirling, where Iain Stanger introduced it in a seminar and has been very supportive ever…
Dr. Jeff Bauer instructs in the Department of Kinesiology at SUNY. He teaches undergraduate biomechanics, is the Co-Director of the Biomechanics Laboratory and the Associate Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education. Under Dr. Bauer’s direction, Dartfish is used in classroom lecture, student laboratories, for research,…
Preeti Raghavan MD, the director of the Motor Recovery Laboratory, and Edward Li, an assistant researcher in the Motor Recovery Lab in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, use Dartfish to objectively monitor patients’ progress over time and…
This study by Ciuffarella Andrea, Masedu Francesco, Russo Luca and De Angelis Marco from the Human Movement and Sport Science Faculty, University of L’Aquila – Italy, used Dartfish Tagging to produce a statistical breakdown of the effectiveness of serve type in volleyball. The use of Tagging enables greater…