The new way to watch your kids Basketball?
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We attended a stadium on Friday night hosting VJBL games from ages 12 to 18 and one thing stood out (quite literally!)
Is your junior basketball team doing this?
We attended the Boorondara sports complex on Friday night, where 1 junior rep team is swiftly replaced by another for hours on end. Players as young as 11 arrive in Birks with backpacks and are warming up before the game.
Although the professionalism of these young players was impressive, the thing that really stood out was what the parents were doing pre game.
We noticed parents arriving carrying long black rectangular bags. We're these parents planning a heist of Boorondara stadium? We're they camping out for tickets to their kids grand final next week?
No, they were filming the game with either an XbotGO or VEO AI camera.
As these parents we're setting up the 2m AI camera, other parents would come up and ask them to attach their phone top the apparatus as to have the vision also on their device.
One AI tripod had 4 iphones hanging off it, it was barely able to turn!
For some, this footage is for memories and to share with family and friends but for most this is a training tool, this footage is sent to the coach or another parent who then has the task of editing the video to find every stat and clip to use for coaching.
After the game we saw coaches in the cafe who were already going over footage with their team or with specific players.
The value of footage and data is unquestioned but we thought how much are those 12 year olds really taking in when watching this coaches screen, exhausted at 9pm at night in the Boorondara cafe and waiting for the coach to get to the right moment "was that steal in the first or second Daisy?"
If while reading this you are thinking hmm that sounds oddly familiar then you need Superstat.
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