Just one week after its announcement at the American Baseball Coaches Association Convention FlightScope has received quite a buzz around its signature 3D radar and tracking systems specifically for baseball and softball.
Known for the company’s sticky fingers in the golf community alongside partners and supporters like TaylorMade, Nike, PING, Callaway, True Golf, Swing Catalyst, and U.S. Golf TV, FlightScope has converted its sensor models and software to become baseball and softball adaptable.
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It is no surprise that there are already apps centered on athlete performance and feedback on the mound, by the plate and in the field like Coach’es Eye – Instant Video Analysis Replay and Baseball Coach Plus, but there are a few key components of FlightScope Strike that will leave these apps on the bench.
The FlightScope Strike app is the first multi-frequency 3D tracking radar for both baseball and softball. While the program can do the basic speed and angle analysis functions, FlightScope Strike is also capable of measuring the distance to the ball at any point in time. With an additional piece of hardware that connects wirelessly to iPhones and iPads, the device will immediately provide feedback relative to ball trajectory, pop-time, and spin RPM.
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Providing an analysis, vital to the success of players and coaches, users are able to gather pitching, hitting, and defensive data based off of features like dynamic zone mapping, strike zone adjust-ability, and camera calibration. In addition to these features, FlightScope is United States Specialty Sports Association’s (USSSA) official and exclusive swing and ball flight technology, and partner of RightView Pro, the only software that weds automated reports, video streaming and data through Strike.
“These partnerships with USSSA and RightView Pro will ensure quick and easy adoption of our technology into the game of baseball,” says FlightScope’s founder and CEO Henri Johnson. With more data, more feedback and more critical analysis from software programs, we can expect to see more overlapping information systems going from one sports market to the next. With a demand for the most personalized information as humanly and technologically possible, the will to win and desire to get there will become that much more amplified in training facilities with products like FlightScope Strike.