Writing on form, film, and the apps that read it
Plain, specific, sourced. Technique you can check on your own footage, and honest comparisons of the tools that claim to help.
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The AI pickleball apps, compared by what they actually look at
Nine apps, dated and sourced to Apple, with the one column no other list fills: does it look at the ball, or at your body.
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SwingVision, PB Vision and Dinklix: which one looks at the player?
SwingVision scores your match, PB Vision grades your stats, Dinklix reads your body. A sourced three-way comparison of the AI pickleball apps.
July 26, 2026
How to film your pickleball serve so the video is actually usable
Every filming guide teaches match capture from behind. For a form check you want the opposite: one shot, ten seconds, from the side. Here is how.
July 26, 2026
Eight pickleball serve mistakes you can see on your own video
The eight serve faults that most often cost depth and consistency, each visible on a ten-second clip from the side, with how to spot and fix each one.
July 26, 2026
Five third-shot-drop mistakes you can spot on your own video
The drop is a lift, not a hit. Five common third-shot-drop faults you can catch on a side-on clip, with the fix and a drill for each.
July 26, 2026
Feel versus real: why your serve looks nothing like it feels
The gap between what a serve feels like and what it looks like on video is why the same mistake survives a thousand reps. Coaches name it feel versus real.
July 26, 2026
We will never give you a score out of 10. Here is why.
A number that ranks the best player alive below an amateur is not a measurement. Why Dinklix gives a named fix list instead of a rating.
July 26, 2026
Stuck at 3.5? USA Pickleball's own skill matrix says it is mechanics
By USA Pickleball’s official skill ladder, mechanics is what separates a 3.5 from a 4.0 and weight transfer separates 4.0 from 4.5. Why more court time does not move the wall.
July 26, 2026
What pose estimation is, and what it can and cannot tell you about your form
Pose estimation turns a phone clip into a moving map of your joints. What it can see, what it cannot, and why admitting the limits is the whole point.
July 26, 2026
The camera angle that shows your weight transfer
Weight transfer is almost invisible from the front and obvious from the side. Why the side-on clip is the one to film, and the faults it catches.
July 26, 2026