Swing data points
Every meaningful thing SwingVantage looks at in your swing, explained in plain English — what it means, what good looks like, how we detect it, and the drills that move it.
Core concepts
Grip
Your grip is the only connection between you and the club, bat, or racket — it quietly sets your face angle, release, and consistency before you ever move.
Weight Distribution
Where your pressure sits — and when it moves — is the engine of power, the key to clean contact, and one of the most common hidden causes of inconsistency.
Swing Plane
Swing plane is the tilted circle your club, bat, or racket travels on — the simplest way to understand why your shots curve, get fat, or come "over the top."
Setup
Motion
Rotation (Hip & Shoulder Turn)
How much, and in what order, your hips and shoulders turn — the rotary engine behind effortless power.
Early Extension
When your hips thrust toward the ball and you stand up out of posture in the downswing — a top cause of inconsistent contact.
Over the Top
A steep, out-to-in downswing where the club moves out and over the ideal path — the number-one cause of the pull-slice.
Club Path
The horizontal direction the clubhead is travelling through impact — in-to-out or out-to-in — which, with the face, sets your start line and curve.
Sequencing & tempo
Contact
Contact Quality
How flush you strike it — where the ball meets the face/barrel and how clean the low point is.
Attack Angle
Whether the clubhead is moving down or up at impact — a measured number that shapes contact, launch, and spin.
Smash Factor
Ball speed divided by club speed — a measured efficiency number that tells you how much of your speed actually reached the ball.
Release & face
Casting (Early Release)
Releasing the wrist angles too early in the downswing — throwing away stored speed before impact.
Face Control
How square the face is at impact relative to your path — the biggest driver of start direction and curve.
Dynamic Loft
The actual loft you deliver at impact — which can differ a lot from the loft stamped on the club depending on shaft lean and release.
Result
Spin Rate
How much backspin you put on the ball — a measured number that controls height, carry, and how the ball stops.
Launch Angle
The vertical angle the ball leaves the face — the measured starting height that, with spin, sets your carry.
Carry Consistency
How repeatable your carry distance is shot to shot — measured as the spread around your average, not a single number.
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