Disclaimer: please don’t hear the following post as a crack or any sort of negative attack on slow-motion video. We all love the technological advances that allow both analysis of movement as well as the pure cool factor.
However, with the new development of slow motion video and frame by frame video apps such as Coaches Eye, many aspiring coaches and avid followers of weightlifting have become dependent on this technology. While this technology does add plenty of good things to the weightlifting community, overusing it can take away what many of the older coaches call, “the coaches eye.” The irony of that idea as it parallels to the app Coach’s Eye is hilarious to me. For all of you coaches and lifters out there videoing and watching your lifts and others lifters, don’t immediately refer to slow motion. Watch the lift multiple times over and over again before you begin to break the lift down in slow motion. Many times what we see in slow motion doesn’t allow us the opportunity to see what’s really going on. What’s more we may miss something in slow motion that would be plainly obvious at full speed. Don’t believe me? Check out the analysis below.
why we watch lifts full speed analysis from Power And Grace Performance on Vimeo.