Filming a wheelchair rugby match
Four players a side, a basketball court, a ball close to a volleyball, and chairs that crash into each other. A phone placed up high shows every block. Here is where to…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a wheelchair basketball match
Same court, same hoop as basketball: what changes is the chairs, which take up space and decide almost everything. A phone placed up high shows all of them. Here is…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a baseball match
A baseball field opens out in a fan shape in front of home plate. A single well-placed phone shows the pitcher, the batter and the fielders. Here is where to put it and…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a badminton match
In badminton everything moves fast and the court is small: a single well-placed phone sees both sides. The trap is wanting to follow the shuttle with the zoom. Here is…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a beach volleyball match
A beach volleyball court is small: a single phone is enough to show everything. The framing is easy. The hard part is the light on the sand, the wind and the dust. Here…
· 6 minFilming
How to film a football match
An amateur football match is filmed outdoors, on a big pitch, often without a stand, sometimes at three degrees. Placement can be settled in one sentence. What ruins…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a water polo match
Almost nobody explains how to film a water polo match. The pool is nonetheless a good setting for a phone: the playing area is bounded and the stands give height. What…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a padel match
A padel court is closed on every side, which is good news: a single well-placed camera sees the whole match. The difficulty comes from the glass and the mesh, which…
· 6 minFilming
Filming a unihockey match
Few guides explain how to film a unihockey match, even though the sport is in halls all over Switzerland. The most useful advice comes down to three ideas: position…
· 6 minFilming
Filming an indoor handball match
Handball is played fast, in a short space, under hall lighting that is not made for cameras. Three decisions taken before the throw-off are enough to bring back a video…
· 6 minCoaching
Filming yourself at tennis to improve
Every player who sees themselves for the first time discovers a different player from the one they imagined: late preparation, planted feet, the arm doing everything…
· 6 minKit
Free video analysis software: what actually exists
You want to review your matches and training sessions on video, without getting out the club card. There is real free software, tools already installed on your phone and…
· 6 minKit
Veo camera: price, subscription, and the alternative with a phone
The Veo camera (Veo Cam) comes up in every committee discussion as soon as filming matches is mentioned. Here is what it costs according to the official pages, what the…
· 7 minKit
Kinovea on iPhone or Mac: what are the alternatives?
You have heard of Kinovea, you want to install it, and your computer is a Mac. Or you are looking for the app on iPhone. Kinovea only runs on Windows. The good news: on…
· 6 minKit
An alternative to Hudl for an amateur club
Hudl is one of the big names in sports video, mainly in the United States, and its name always comes up when an amateur club here talks about video analysis. Here is…
· 7 minCoaching
U13 basketball drills: 6 situations to film
At 11 or 12 years old, a player is sure they defended up close. On video, they were three metres away. You do not need an analysis session to show them: fifteen seconds…
· 7 minOrganising
Becoming a video analyst in an amateur club
An amateur club has no video analyst. It has a coach who has no time to review the match, and often someone at the side of the pitch who would like to lend a hand: a…
· 7 minKit
Video analysis tools for sport: which one to choose?
Eight tools come up when you look for sports video analysis software. They do not target the same people: some serve an analyst on a computer, others a club that buys a…
· 8 minKit
An alternative to Nacsport
Nacsport comes up often when a club looks for video analysis software. It is a serious tool, built for the analyst who codes every action of a match on a computer. Here…
· 7 minOrganising
Free video analysis: what TactiCam offers your team
To get video started in your team without touching the club budget, TactiCam has two free ways in: the Player account, free for life, and the 14-day coach trial…
· 5 minFilming
How to film a rugby match
Rugby has everything to complicate video: one of the longest pitches in team sports, winter matches in the rain, and a game that alternates tight rucks and runs across…
· 6 minCoaching
Preparing the next match with video of the last one
The match is over, the next one is a week away. In between there is a video, three or four training sessions and little time. Used well, the video of the last match…
· 6 minFilming
Making a video for a scout
A player who wants to change club, a parent preparing an application for a sports-study programme: video has become the first way in. And most of those that get sent…
· 6 minCoaching
How to analyse a volleyball match
A set lost 25-21 can hide solid reception and a missed serve, or the other way round. In volleyball, everything is decided in rallies of a few seconds that all look…
· 6 minOrganising
How to stream an amateur match live
Grandparents three hundred kilometres away, the injured player, the sponsor: live streaming has its reasons to exist in an amateur club. It is also the surest way to…
· 6 minFilming
How to film a hockey match
What works on a football pitch does not work in an ice rink. The glass reflects the stand, the ice dazzles the sensor, the puck is three centimetres across, and the…
· 6 minLegal
Can you put your team's videos on YouTube?
Most clubs do it, because it is free and everyone has the app. It is possible. The question is on what conditions the club stays within the rules with regard to players…
· 6 minCoaching
Can AI analyse an amateur match?
Every brochure promises statistics, heat maps and highlights generated on their own. On amateur match video filmed from the touchline, some of those promises hold and…
· 6 minFilming
Why my match video stutters or flickers
The video exists, but it is unusable: the image advances in jerks, or it flickers under the strip lights, or it goes from light to dark with every cloud. None of the…
· 5 minKit
Should your club buy an automatic camera?
It is the question a club committee asks every spring, with a quote on the table. The honest answer comes down to two cases where it is a good purchase, and one…
· 6 minFilming
How to film the whole pitch with a phone
The question comes up at the start of every season, and the short answer is disappointing: from the side of an eleven-a-side pitch, a single phone does not cover…
· 6 minOrganising
How to find the important moments in a match video
The match is filmed. You know there were four things to review. You no longer know at which minute, and the file is an hour and a half long. This is where most match…
· 6 minCoaching
Do you need statistics when you coach at amateur level
Short answer: yes, but three of them, counted by hand, on a single theme. The rest is decoration that costs a lot and changes no exercise.
· 5 minOrganising
How long to keep a club's videos
The question always comes in the second year, when storage fills up. It has two halves that people mix up: what the law requires, and what the club wants to keep.
· 6 minOrganising
Who films, and when
Almost every club that gives up on video had equipment that worked. What was missing was a person whose job it was.
· 6 minCoaching
Filming a training session, not a match
Training video is for correcting a movement while the player can still redo it.
· 5 minCoaching
How to analyse a football match
The match is filmed, the file is there, and nobody knows what to do with it. That is where most clubs stop: they have the tool but no method for reading the footage.
· 6 minFilming
How to film a basketball match
A gym combines the three things a phone hates: little light, lighting that pulses a hundred times a second, and no room to back off. None of the three can be fixed in…
· 6 minLegal
Filming minor players: what the club needs to put in place
A club that films its youth categories processes children's personal data, and that is far from a detail: it is the part federations check and parents ask about.
· 8 minLegal
Image rights authorisation template for a club
Most of the authorisations circulating in clubs are worthless: they mix training and Instagram, do not say for how long, and provide no way of going back. Here is a…
· 7 minOrganising
Sharing video with your players
A clip posted in a group chat is watched by three players, buried in two days and copied onto twenty phones. And that is not only inefficient.
· 5 minCoaching
Running a video session players listen to
Twenty minutes of video in front of a squad checking their phones: the failure is almost always the format, not the content.
· 6 minKit
What kit do you need to film your team
Between a parent's phone and an automatic camera costing several thousand, the gap is considerable. Here is what justifies it, and what does not.
· 6 minFilming
Where to put the camera to film a match
Badly placed footage cannot be rescued in editing. Three settings decide everything, and only one of them costs money.
· 5 minFilming
How to film a match on your own
Nobody is free to hold the camera, and you are coaching during the match. The answer is not to film better: it is to film differently.
· 6 min