Filming guide
Film it right the first time
Your coach can only review what the camera catches. Five minutes of setup here saves you a wasted upload, so read this before you play.
The short version
- Phone on a tripod, not in someone's hand
- Behind the glass, at the back of your own side
- Landscape orientation, never vertical
- 1080p in your camera settings, 720p at the very least
- Whole court visible in frame
- Real play beats warm-up: check the limit on the review you bought
- Tell us your shirt colour when you upload
Where to put the camera
Camera position matters more than anything else. From behind your own back glass you see both players, both walls and the full flight of the ball. From the side, you see almost none of it.
Good: behind the back glass
Tripod behind the glass, centred on your side of the court. Both players and the full width of play stay in frame.
Bad: from the side fence
Side-on angles compress the court. Your coach can't see depth, positioning, or where the ball actually landed.
Setting up
- 01
Use a tripod or wedge the phone still
Handheld footage is hard to watch and hides footwork. A cheap phone tripod behind the back glass is all you need; resting it on a bag against the fence works too.
- 02
Stand behind your own back glass
Film from behind the back glass on the side you play from. This gives your coach the same view a coach courtside would have of your side of the court.
- 03
Go landscape, fill the frame with the court
Shoot horizontally. Zoom or reposition so all four walls and both service boxes are visible. Don't crop in on just the net.
- 04
Film at 1080p, and check it before you play
Open your camera settings and look before the first point: 1080p is what you want and 720p is the floor. At 480p your racket head is a few pixels wide, so your bandeja, your víbora and your flat smash all look like the same blur: your coach can't tell them apart, and those rows of your report come back blank.
- 05
Avoid filming from the side
Side angles look natural to the eye courtside but flatten the video. Depth and positioning, which is most of what a coach reviews, disappear.
While you're playing
Film real points, not the warm-up
Ten minutes of actual rallies gives your coach far more to work with than an hour that's mostly warm-up hits and between-point pauses. Every review has a footage limit (20 minutes for the Video Review, 30 for the Complete Game Breakdown), so check what you bought and send your best play, not your longest session.
Keep the camera running
Don't stop and restart between points. A continuous clip is easier to review than a folder of fragments.
Note your shirt colour
Tell us what colour you're wearing when you upload. It's the fastest way for your coach to find you in frame from the first second.
Still not sure your footage will work?
Upload what you have. If it isn't usable, we'll tell you before your coach spends time on it, not after.