The Idea of the Sideline Sports Concept
While working with coaches around the world, we discovered
a great need for comprehensive computer software designed specifically to help
coaches with Organization, Communication, and Analysis.
The key was Efficiency. The coaches we worked with needed
tools to maximize their efficiency in the above areas.
We created the tools. Here you can get an idea of what they
can do for you.
Maximize Your Efficiency
All coaches have stacks of papers, videos, and books lying
around for reference. However, as the amount of material increases, it becomes
harder to find what you need, when you need it.
“We
combine the book, video, and computer”
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Coaches spend too much time analyzing, breaking down and editing
game films. We give them their time back by saving them hours upon hours while
providing more in-depth video editing and analysis than they have ever had before.
We combine the book, the video, and the computer. You can
put all of your material on a laptop and reference it anywhere, anytime. Keep
all of your season’s games broken down into their individual components
on a single laptop.
Systematize Your Individual Instruction
What about your individual instruction? This is the
field we find most neglected in coaching. Are you spending as much time as you
would like teaching individuals?
We have found a way to multiply the time your players can
spend studying the game, by giving them the means to take responsibility for
their own individual development.
Today's players are increasingly "tech-savvy". The
school classroom is changing. Players expect to view teaching material in digital
format. It may seem a giant leap, but the most important thing is that the material
and media focus on the student rather than the teacher.
“When it comes to computers, Sideline Sports provides what you need
to utilize this technology”
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There is no need to fall behind. When it comes to computers,
Sideline Sports provides what you need to utilize this technology.
The media you produce with our tools are accessible and have
many applications. It becomes easy to look up notes and find what is needed.
It is easy and time-efficient to update and correct data.
By combining text, diagrams, animations and video clips, you
utilize many different ways of learning.
Players having access to this material are likely to view
it more often and, even more important, at their convenience - the best state
of mind for learning.
Give Instructions Impossible to Misunderstand
When a coach introduces something new to players, first
impressions are strong, and visual media leave no room for misunderstanding.
This is important.
Before verbal instruction, it is important to create a clear
picture to help your players visualize. Technique and tactical skills consist
of timing and complicated movements that words alone cannot describe.
“When a coach introduces something new to players, first impressions
are strong, and visual media leave no room for misunderstanding”
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It is becoming more common to see coaches using visual aids,
but most of these tools are very primitive and time-consuming.
Using our tools, coaches and players refer to the same material. If you have
assistants, they will be working in the same electronic environment. Everything
from your unique jargon to the particular way to execute a move is synchronized
with all of the staff. When changes are needed, they are made instantly for
everyone to see.
Who's Coaching When You Aren't There?
If a player asks you a question about something not covered
in detail during practices, you could produce a detailed, visual answer, using
the computer program. The player can then access this visual material repeatedly
at his or her convenience.
The data bank of technical material that you systematically
build up over time can also be used at coaching clinics, job interviews, coaching
staff meetings, etc.
“Define
your coaching philosophy and put it to work”
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Your material is not only going to work for you but also help
you grow, learn and become wiser. By teaching, you learn, and this is exactly
what happens when you produce instructional materials.
Convert Information into Knowledge and Knowledge into Wisdom
Systematically defining plays, drills and your observations
enables you to retrieve it easily. Organizing your knowledge will enrich and
inspire your decision-making. Your work will become more enjoyable as the impact
of your program and coaching becomes more noticeable.
Analyze Practices and Performance
There will be a record of your practices and performance.
You can then compare what you are doing in your day-to-day coaching with performance
results.
You can evaluate and measure different aspects of your master
practice plan, for example, the amount of time you are spending on offensive
drills compared with defensive drills. It is important for you to have fast,
easy access to information that supports your decisions while you advance your
game to the next level.
It’s About Time
Sideline Sports has revolutionized the key coaching
elements of Video Editing and Analysis.
This is our vision:
1. Create a system with minimum hardware requirements: just
a laptop and a camcorder.
2. Enable coaches to keep more than a season of games on
a laptop.
3. Enable coaches to determine what to analyze, and how
in-depth the analysis will be.
4. Make querying easy and comprehensive. The output should
be statistical templates and spreadsheets as well as merged video clips.
5. Enable coaches to produce feedback and teaching materials,
using media that are easily accessible to players.
“Sideline Sports has revolutionized the key coaching elements of Video
Editing and Analysis”
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Today this vision has become a reality. The coaching level
does not matter. The Sideline Sports solution is comprehensive and in-depth
enough for pro coaches. At the same time, it is affordable and simple enough
for youth coaches.
Our tools enable you to extract information that may have
otherwise remained inaccessible, and they will do it efficiently and quickly.
The Idea in a Nutshell
Our tools enable you to:
1. Get more out of the time you spend preparing your team
2. Analyze practices and performance
3. Make your teaching more effective
4. Define your coaching philosophy
5. Store your lifetime observations
6. Edit and analyze video as never before.
The products that we are talking about are:
1. Sideline Video Analyzer
2. Sideline Organizer, Network - Professional VE -
Professional - Standard - Viewer
“We are a training company, teaching coaches of athletic programs,
large and small, how to become more organized and get results”
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Coaches, not IT guys, came up with the core ideas. As coaches,
we understand your coaching needs. Our company is so much more than a software
developer. We are a training company, teaching coaches of athletic programs,
large and small, how to become more organized and get results.
Since our products are user-friendly and require minimum hardware,
they attract professional teams as the well as teams at the grass-roots level.
You owe it to yourself and to your players to gain any possible
edge in improving the quality of your game.
Wishing you the best success,
Brynjar Karl, Head of Development
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