Monday, April 2, 2012

Using the iPad with pole vault practice

As the school's pole vault coach with the track and field team it has often been difficult to explain the fine points of this most technically difficult of field events. I am using my iPad with team daily. although the iPad has a good quality video camera and photo app, I use the the app VideoPix because it allows be to use slow motion and frame by frame viewing of boy's vaults to analyze problems and teach correct form.

A typical vault attempt. We can slow it down and view key points frame by frame using VideoPix

I am also able to use my iPad to have some video examples of strong high school and college vaulters on hand to show our vaulters for reference. I used my iPad to create a blog page for pole vault and have put reference videos there for my vaulters to study.

 

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