Martin Chuck is a renowned PGA Master Professional who founded Tour Striker Golf Academy in 2011, one of the most successful Golf Academy and Coaching Programs in North America.

Holding the titles of Golf Digest Top 50 and Golf Magazine Top-100, Martin has coached over 50,000 in-person lessons and taught 1,000+ golf academies.

When Martin Chuck began his coaching career, he quickly realized a major obstacle: athlete's struggled to retain information. He describes the struggle of playing catch up at the start of every lesson: “I'd see these people come practice and hopefully they’d remember what they were taught the previous time... but they wouldn't”.

Everything changed for Martin Chuck when he was introduced to CoachNow. “It blew my mind,” he recalls. “All the extra time at the end of the day went away.”

Now, he manages 5,280 athletes on the platform — the vast majority of whom have attended an in-person camp or lesson. The remaining 10% participate in growing online programs, expanding his reach beyond the physical range.

Today, Martin’s going to share how he sets up video capture, why it’s important, and the role that CoachNow plays in all of it.

Transcript:

Steven is in the main frame right here and he's being recorded on 120 frames per second. If it's darker out, I might move it to 60 frames per second.

Now, if you come over to the iPad, I'll get the iPad situated in a place where I've got a great down the line video.

Now I could walk in and manipulate Steven, work on his grip and we can have this discussion. He can hit a few golf balls - that’s being recorded to his main training space. If Steven takes a swing, I've got a 240 frame video being recorded right now.

From there, I've got this 240 that I've saved to the library. Now what's nice is even in the discussion, I've got my mic on. The wireless mic is connected to my camera so he's got great audio.

There's a great framing of Steven and if we are looking at this, I can turn this on, I can record right into this, and I can save this to his space.

Now here's the interesting thing..

When you look at the two cameras, they're vertically above one another. So that's the framing sense of it - they're seeing things very similarly. I've been using this since 2013, but honestly this is kind of an evolution as far as using two devices.

The iPad battery works great. I don't keep it on all day, but during the lesson I'll keep it on when I think there's a really good learning moment. I will have a battery backup right here to run to this splitter so I can keep my phone juiced all day, and then my mic lasts all day.

So this is my coaching “weapon of grass destruction” when I'm outside on the grass, using CoachNow two ways.

Inside, I use it as well in my studio; I've got my phone holder right on my desk and I'll use it because I want all their information going to one place.

Both outside and inside, I’m using a phone holder. I'll even pop a wireless mic on inside so my voice is clear. The student has no problem hearing me and they get a quality experience.

In summary, Martin’s top tips for effective video capture are: