Getting started FAQ

It covers 8 sports — golf, tennis, pickleball, padel, baseball, slow-pitch softball, fast-pitch softball and cricket. The analysis workspace is Motion Lab. You record or upload a clip, and it tracks your body on your own device and checks whether the footage is good enough to support a read. Then it shows what it found, with a confidence level and a label saying whether each number was measured, estimated or inferred.

Everything is organized 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 how it fits alongside a coach.

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 in frame, plus the club, bat, racquet or paddle when the motion uses one.
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, the main issue and your One Fix.
5. Create a free account to save the fix and unlock your 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 labeled 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. Tennis, pickleball, padel, baseball and both softball codes get pose-based directional reads that are honest about what a single camera can see. Cricket is batting only: Motion Lab grades front- and back-foot shots on starter ranges not yet checked against real batters, and the one fix comes from the weakest graded read or from how you got out.

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

Every other read is shown as measured, not graded. There is no cricket fault detector, and nothing reads line, length, pace or spin. Bowling is not analyzed at all.

The details are on the cricket FAQ page: what a batting clip shows, how it is graded, and how to film in the nets.

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 and the same motion, so a serve is checked against a serve and a putt against a putt.

Working on one thing at a time is easier to practice 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.

Not every clip produces a fix. If every read that could be scored is at the working level, the result says there is nothing to fix on this swing. A clip with no swing in it, one that stops before the swing finishes, or one that plays sideways gets no read at all — just what to change before you film again.

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 tells you what to change — angle, light, distance or frame rate, or getting the whole swing into the clip.

If the result says there is nothing to fix on this swing, there is no One Fix to commit to yet: keep doing what you are doing and film the same swing again in a week or two to check it holds.

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.