
Swing Smarter Hitting Training Podcast | ⭐Hitting Performance Lab⭐
Joey Myers
October 19, 202130 min
Baseball
Improving Swing Mechanics: Chaz Henry on Video Analysis as Your Virtual Hitting Coach
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Episode Notes
Chaz Henry discusses how sport video analysis software complements hitting coaches by offering a valuable second opinion. Learn how technology enhances swing mechanics and player performance.
Here are some of the topics to be discussed:
- What video analysis software do you use?
- Who is Chaz Henry? What’s his background in?
- The fascinating history of Powerchalk and machine learning...
- Difference of amateur hitter’s up shoulders at landing versus professional hitter’s down shoulders...
- What machine learning, aka “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), means to the future of video analysis...
- “What I've done is I've kind of shown how the machine can grade you, can look at these frames and grade you [the swing] ...”
- How to objectively take a swing “red” light and turn it “green” ...
- “I don't pretend at all that I'm doing away with, or that I'm automating a real hitting coach; I see it as a second opinion...”
- Using machine learning to recognize dysfunctional movement like immobile joint and diagnose corrective exercise, so that a hitter moves better...
- Where can they go to find Powerchalk obviously, and then is there a place they can go to check out this new AI machine learning stuff?
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: https://gohpl.com/chazhtranscription
Click short link for video of interview: https://gohpl.com/chazhvideo