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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 - Professional - Standard - Viewer

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