The always witty David Feherty recently proclaimed CBS' SwingVision a "weapon of mass instruction." A brilliant pun, it is a great summary of the slow motion technology. It has been an invaluable tool in my never-ending quest to understand this perpetually perplexing game!
Over the years, SwingVision has evolved with advances in technology. It added color to the close-up camera, upgraded the resolution to high definition (HD) and added a mobile camera to evaluate live swings. However, I think that SwingVision has taken two steps forward and one step back. For some reason they have abandoned the close-up camera from their arsenal. Once featured every time, it is now only utilized once in a blue moon. This is highly unfortunate because it was my favorite feature. There's so much that you can learn by seeing a close-up of club-to-ball impact at 12,500 frames per second!
Here's an old SwingVision of Tiger hitting iron off the tee that shows you what I mean:
C'mon CBS, please bring back the SwingVision close-up cam!
3 comments:
As always, a good topic and a good post. However, I don't think you mean "never-ending understanding." Unless you have infinite understanding you mean "never-ending QUEST for understanding." Also, I do wish you'd post more often. :-)
Thanks for the comments Doc! I fixed it. I wish I had the time to post
and proofread more often!
Feherty is a riot! His comments on the Tiger Woods Legacy DVD's are classic.
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