Getting started FAQ

It covers 7 sports — golf, tennis, pickleball, padel, baseball, slow-pitch softball and fast-pitch softball. The analysis workspace is Motion Lab: you record or upload a clip, it tracks your body on your own device, checks whether the footage is good enough to support a read, and shows what it found with a confidence level and a label saying whether each number was measured, estimated or inferred.

Everything is organised around one loop — one fix, one plan, one retest — so you always know the single next thing to do instead of reading a list of twenty faults.

You do not need a coach, a launch monitor or any special equipment. A phone that can record video is enough to start; golfers who own a launch monitor can import its numbers too.

It is not a replacement for a qualified coach, and it does not give medical advice. See does SwingVantage replace a coach? for where it fits.

1. Choose your sport and motion — for example golf and "Driver Swing", or tennis and "Serve".
2. Record or upload a clip with your whole body and the club, bat, racquet or paddle in frame.
3. Read the quality check: it tells you how much the footage can support and what to change if it cannot.
4. Review the summary, the visual proof and the main issue.
5. Create a free account to see your One Fix, practice plan and retest.

If you would rather not film yet, the Start flow can give a quick estimate from a few questions, or you can look at a sample report first.

No sensors or launch monitor are required. If you own a golf launch monitor, you can import its data for measured ball and club numbers.

Filming at 60 frames per second (often labelled slow-motion) helps for fast swings, and good even light helps with everything. See how to film your swing.

Each live sport has its own motions to choose from in Motion Lab, its own filming guidance and its own drill library. Golf has the deepest analysis — a golf-specific engine. The other sports get pose-based directional reads that are honest about what a single camera can see.

Slow-pitch and fast-pitch softball are separate sports in SwingVantage, not one sport with a setting. See how they differ.

It will only be listed as a live sport once its analysis is ready to stand behind. Until then SwingVantage does not produce cricket results, so nothing it shows you should be read as a cricket assessment.

Your sessions stay grouped by sport, so a tennis serve is never compared with a golf swing: a retest is compared with an earlier session of the same sport. Film the same motion as the original too — compare a serve with a serve.

Working on one thing at a time is easier to practise and easier to verify. When you retest the same motion under the same conditions, you can see whether that specific change happened — something a long list of faults never lets you check.

Once a retest shows the fix has improved, you lock in the next priority and the loop repeats.

If the quality check said the clip was limited, the most useful next step is often a better recording rather than practice: the result will tell you exactly what to change — angle, light, distance or frame rate.

Once you commit to the fix, Today carries your practice and your retest, so you do not have to remember what to work on.

The other ways in are a swing video in Motion Lab, an import of launch-monitor or session data, or entering numbers you already know. Video and imported data give a better-supported result than answers alone.

You can also preview a sample report to see what a full analysis looks like before you put anything in.

Motion Lab does its video analysis inside the browser tab, which is why a reasonably recent device and browser matter. See which devices and browsers work.