I had the opportunity to go through a day of training in
the latest Dartfish software. http://www.dartfish.com
I was blown away with the changes they have made. I was an early adopter
of Dartfish in the winter of 2001. I actually used quite extensively over the
next four years and then got away from using it. When I returned this last
spring I found that I had become out of touch with it and needed to be
retrained. This last week was my fist opportunity for training with the new
version the Team Pro 5.0. It is much more intuitive and practical. There is so
much that can be done my head is spinning. I wish I could afford to hire
someone to just do Dartfish analysis fulltime, I think it would be that
valuable. (This is not a paid endorsement, I also own Silicon Coach.) I think that one of my biggest shortcoming, as
a coach has been my inability (possibly reluctance) to use video. I have relied
too much on my coaching “eye” that is way to biased. With what we know about skill acquisition this medium is indispensible.
I am vowing to make use of the power of this software going forward. I also
have a channel on Dartfish TV that I am going to make extensive use of starting
in September www.dartfish.tv. I need the month of August to get up to speed
with all of this.
