Twelve clips,
one gym session.
Six corrections account for most of what you say across a practice. Filmed once with your own athletes, they become reference clips you can send in seconds and reuse across the whole roster.
Create a reference feed.
A reference library is one feed of correct execution and the specific faults you name in practice.
Make the feed
- Create a feed in sportsense, type Reference and sport Volleyball (group and reference feeds need a Pro account).
- Name it Organisation | Reference, using your club or program name.
Who gets access
- Invite the roster and your assistant coaches by email, direct link or QR code.
- Leave the Athlete tag empty unless that athlete has agreed to be the reference.
Record or import your clips.
Two ways into the library, record straight to the feed or import what you already have, and either way each clip lands as its own post.
Record in the app
- Open the sportsense camera at practice and film the rep, and the green arrow in the bottom right chooses the feed it sends to, so point it at the reference feed.
- Say the skill out loud as you film, and sportsense starts the tagging for you.
Import what you already have
- In the reference feed, tap the plus in the bottom right to add clips from your camera roll or your sportsense library.
- Footage from past practices counts, so a clean contact from last season is a reference clip once it is titled and tagged.
How to film a clip.
A reference clip is the one you will compare the whole roster against, so capture it as efficiently as possible.
- One contact per clip, four to twelve seconds, entry through exit.
- Whole athlete in frame, approach through landing, since the approach is usually the part you are correcting.
- Film with the subject centered, and keep them centered through the contact, on a tripod when applicable.
- Highest frame rate the phone offers, 60fps minimum, because these clips get slowed down and drawn on.
- No music, and no talking over a model clip.
Which clips to make.
The Actions list is the menu, so work down it and decide which contacts the roster needs to see.
- Write down the six corrections you give most often, in the words you say, for example platform angle on a spin receive or a toss drifting behind the hitting shoulder.
- If it maps to a value in the Actions list, it is the right size for a clip.
- Film each correction twice, a model of correct execution and an error showing one named fault, so twelve clips.
- The fault clip is otherwise competent with one thing wrong.
Title and tag every clip.
Every clip carries four tags and a title in the same format.
Title carries the rest
There is no level tag or clip role tag yet.
- Format: Skill | Phase or fault | Role L#.
- If it helps, add a level: L1 foundation, L2 developing, L3 advanced, L4 expert, and the level is the standard the clip is a reference for, not the ability of the athlete in it.
- Skill first, since the Media grid truncates around 25 characters.
- Angle goes in parentheses only when two clips are otherwise identical.
- Jump Float Serve | Toss drift | Error L2
- Front Set | Square to target | Model L2
- Forearm Pass | Platform angle | Model L1
Stamp every clip
- Tags are detected automatically as the clip uploads, so adjust them by hand and write the description in your own words.
- Actions: the one skill shown, for example Jump Float Serve.
- Terrain: your discipline, Indoor, Beach or Sitting.
- Camera angle: Front, Side or Back.
Send a reference, not a correction.
You have built a compounding resource you can pull from at any time, anywhere in the app.
Compare against it
- Open an athlete's serve beside the reference and play them together, with overlays and angles when the difference needs numbers.
- The comparison does the explaining, and the athlete sees the gap instead of reading about it.
Send it anywhere
- Attach the reference in chat, or use Add Reference in the feedback composer.
- Assistants send from the same library, so the correction holds without you there.
A library that compounds.
Every clip you add works for every athlete on the roster, this season and after it.
The compounding effect
- Every explanation you repeat to a second athlete is the next clip, filmed once and reused across the program.
- New athletes inherit the standard on day one, and assistant coaches teach from the same clips.
Coach beyond practice
- Run a correction without stopping practice for a demonstration, because the model clip already exists.
- Coach remotely between sessions, since the standard travels without you.
- That is the base of a remote offer, athletes keep progressing between gym sessions without adding hours to your week.
Keep it clean
- One skill per clip, and if a clip needs two, it is two clips.
- Request missing tag values through Want something new? instead of inventing your own wording.
Not coaching a team sport? The main guide covers filming across terrain and conditions, and tagging the surface a clip was filmed on.
Main Guide
sportsense.
Reference clips work the same in every sport sportsense supports. The tag values change, the workflow does not.