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    Pitch recognition apps?

    ProBatter is a true "simulator" -- but hard (and expensive) to set up in the basement! The gameSense app usually is interactive, where the user clicks or touches screen to guess pitch type and ball/strike. But people started using it like this college baseball team, so we made a mode for showing...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    Here are two studies. The first (2006) is experimental design, with half the hitters on a team getting Pitch Recognition training using video-occlusion method. Team was Purdue baseball. http://peterfadde.com/Research/Baseball.pdf The second is more of a case study done with the Southeast...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    The video-occlusion method is proven. Batters watch video of a pitcher from close to a batters' view. The video shows a pitcher windup and release the pitch, and about one-third of ball flight. Then the video is cut to black and the hitter needs to guess the Type of pitch (Drop, rise etc) and...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    Pro Batter and Joyner Technologies (All-Star) have Video Pitching Machine Simulators. Mostly in softball facilities. Batting cage with Projection Screen in front of a programmable pitching machine. Image of a pitcher projected onto screen, and timed with windup so ball comes through a hole in...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    Indeed, pitching machine is a highly proven PART-TASK app. Combine with newer but also highly proven video Pitch Recognition PART-TASK (emphasis, not yelling). To suggest that one is better than the other is like saying weightlifting is better than cardio. Smart money does both!
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    So much great SB on TV now! So much great pitching. Parents, players, coaches, instructors -- if you want your hitter to have her best chance you better start working on Pitch Recognition! No matter how great her swing, you need to recognize the pitch out of hand on this level pitcher in order...
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    New from gameSense

    Thanks for the welcome and the Podcast link. I love podcasts! You get time to talk about and explain things. For Podcast on Pitch Recognition in softball, check out "In the Circle" from Feb. 2018: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-in-the-circle-28419142/episode/in-the-circle-top-25-peter-28949868/
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    This video just shows the Fastpitch-IQ app (gameSense Sports) without my prof's lecture. The lecture is to show how the "video-occlusion" (video of pitches cut off) is deep science -- even though it is a Twitter-simple training app. Other products include uHit for tracking (but doesn't show a...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    "Slow the Game Down" is visual skills training started by Dr. Bill Harrison in 1970s. Used then by George Brett and other ML hitters, and still used. "Fastpitch-IQ" (gameSense Sports) is Pitch Recognition training. PR and vision both really important to hitting. Great plan is to cross-train...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    If folks are interested in the science behind video-occlusion approach, check out this coaches clinic video on: Next Level Hitting by Training Pitch Recognition:
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    This is a great way to work on Pitch Recognition. It's Implicit learning that's not conscious. Set it up so the hitters' eyes and brain and body can figure it out. First tell them what's coming, then make them guess. My gameSense app that folks asked about pairs up really well with this kind of...
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    Pitch recognition apps?

    Great to have interest in gameSense to train pitch recognition. It's a computer app (web or iPhone/iPad -- no Android) that's very simple. But the video-occlusion method has been used by sport science researchers for decades -- I just turned it into training app. Hitter watches batters view...
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    New from gameSense

    I'm a softball dad (daughter on Indiana Magic, Edge, Univ of Kentucky in early-mid 2000s) and professor at SIU. Did my PhD research on the "video occlusion" method to train pitch recognition for baseball and softball. Turned research into gameSense Sports to make video training for iPhone and web.
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