Recording Guide
Better video makes the first SwingSmith result easier to trust. Use a stable phone, repeatable angle, clear framing, and the real swing pattern you want to understand.
Analyze My Swing FreeLast updated: May 26, 2026
Before you upload
SwingSmith can only analyze what the video shows. A stable phone, enough room around the golfer, and a repeatable camera angle make the P10 sequence, written priority, and visual feedback more useful.
Step 1
Set the phone on a tripod, bag stand, cart mount, or stable surface. Handheld video moves too much and makes follow-up comparison harder.
Step 2
Start with down-the-line for plane and path checks, or face-on for setup, rotation, impact, and body-position checks. Use the same angle again later.
Step 3
The golfer, hands, ball, and club should stay visible from setup through finish. Cropping the club or feet removes useful checkpoints.
Step 4
Film the swing you want to understand, not only the perfect rep. A normal slice, hook, shank, thin strike, or stuck swing gives the app more useful context.
Camera angle
Best for: Swing plane, takeaway, transition, path, posture, and crowded impact checks.
Setup: Place the phone behind the golfer on the target-line side, high enough to see the hands, shoulders, hips, ball, and club through the motion.
Camera angle
Best for: Setup, pressure shift, rotation, impact position, release, and finish checkpoints.
Setup: Place the phone in front of the golfer, square to the stance, with enough distance to keep the club and body visible through the finish.
Why it helps
The first upload should be clear enough to create a useful baseline. The next upload should be recorded from the same angle so the golfer, coach, or facility can see whether the priority actually changed.
Use the clear recording inside SwingSmith so upload, result, history, and follow-up stay connected.
Turn the recording into a score, P10 checkpoints, visual feedback, and one priority.
Use a free AI golf swing analyzer path after recording a clear phone video for the first review.
Use a stable angle to review low point, spacing, and the frames before impact.
Use a cleaner recording to choose one correction priority from the actual swing.
Use the finished recording to get a score, P10 sequence, visuals, and one practice priority.
Preview the current dark SwingSmith output before uploading your own swing.
Install the app and use the recording to get a score, P10 sequence, and priority notes.
Compare golf swing analyzer apps, browser tools, coach workflows, and hardware options before choosing.
Use Ask Brody follow-up after the analysis to turn the result into the next practice focus.
Use the iOS app when your golf swing video starts as an iPhone recording.
Use the Android app when your golf swing video starts from a Google Play install.
Keep the first review focused on one priority instead of too many swing thoughts.
Use repeatable phone video to keep setup, tempo, contact, and practice priorities easy to review.
Film the same angle consistently so lead/trail side notes stay clear for a left-handed swing.
Use phone video first when you do not want to buy a launch monitor or sensor just to review the swing.
Connect the video to slice, hook, shank, plane, range, home-net, simulator, or coach workflows.
Use the private pilot when a coach or facility wants to test a small set of swings first.
Record, upload, review
Install the app, upload the swing, and use the analysis to decide what to test at the next range, home-net, simulator, or lesson session.
Down-the-line is usually best for swing plane, path, takeaway, transition, and posture. Face-on is useful for setup, rotation, impact position, release, and finish. The most important rule is to keep the angle clear and repeatable.
Record the swing pattern you want to understand. If the problem is a slice, hook, shank, thin strike, or crowded impact, capture that normal swing instead of only filming the cleanest rep.
Yes. Home-net, range, and simulator video can all work when the phone is stable, the golfer and club stay visible, and the angle is repeatable across sessions.
No. Swing analysis runs inside the iOS and Android app so uploads, results, visuals, and history stay connected.
Explore SwingSmith
Start with the core app, analyzer, coach, and support paths. Specific swing-topic pages stay linked from the articles where they are most useful.
