What is video analysis?
Video review is an awesome tool to learn about your skating and to get very
precise feedback on exactly what to change. It will show you what you're doing
well, and it will give you the tools and power to change your own skating where
it needs improving.
You'll be filmed on the skills we're working on, together with the drills to
build that skill. This enables you to see what's right, and what's wrong and
thus needs working on.
Is it any good for my skating?
Now that you're taking lessons, you've no doubt already seen the value of
having an instructor to push your ability, and to get you to learn new skills.
Video review goes a step further, and is an essential coaching tool used to huge
effect in many sports. Skating happens so fast in real time that
frame-by-frame video review of critical moments lets us quickly pinpoint and
demonstrate problems that might never be found without it.
No matter how skilled the instructor, there's always two problems that are
hard to completely compensate for:
- Nearly everybody has a mismatch between their own internal image of
themselves, their body position, and how they skate, and what they are
actually doing.
- Secondly skating feels very different to the way it looks, and often the
way it feels is interpreted to be wrong the first time it's done.
Video review really helps overcome both of these problems and leads to faster
progress in learning and perfecting skills.
Watching yourself on video can be painful (well, not literally!) and
humbling, but it's a sure way of seeing exactly how you skate. Every skater, no
matter how good, has technical errors in his/her skating. For myself, I don't
believe it's possible to improve as a skater until I'm humble enough to accept
my own failings, and video review certainly showed me mistakes I didn't know
about before. Once you know and accept what's wrong with your skating, it's much
easier to work on correcting them.
What's included?
- This is an add-on you can buy with a private lesson, giving you video
footage of your skating.
- We will rewind and review the video during the lesson for the most
direct feedback.
- You'll be able to compare demonstrated skills directly with the way you
do them.
- It includes a DVD with footage of your skating, and also footage of
demonstrated skills.
- You'll also receive written feedback on your skating in considerable
detail.
- The feedback usually includes what you're doing well, what needs
improving, and some suggested drills and practices to help you correct your
skills.
Book a lesson now:
Fill out this form to contact Mike van Erp. Please
note these are for inline skating (rollerblading) and quad skating lessons (old
school roller skating) only.
Why does it cost so much?
The one disadvantage of video review is that it takes a lot of time to do
properly and requires expensive equipment. From previous experience, capturing,
minor editing, and burning the DVD, together with providing the written feedback
take longer than an actual lesson. As a result I believe you're getting my time
far more cheaply than during a normal skating lesson, and getting significantly
more to take away and practice with.
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