Every athlete has been to a camp at some point in his or her respective careers. Whether that camp is a youth soccer camp and the first sports exposure ever for that athlete or a high school football camp in the sweltering summer heat, we've all been there. Camps are great—you can try a new sport, make new friends, work on your craft, and get introduced to coaches that can advance your career. However, the way most are run, they're far from perfect.
Many sports camps, regardless of the sport, struggle with real time feedback review. If an athlete participates in a drill, film won't be available until after the camp, if there's even film at all—no opportunity to critique that with a coach from the camp. Coaches can and will give immediate feedback, but most of the time, it's without film. This separation between film and immediate feedback makes it a lot harder and a lot longer of a process for athletes to develop into better players.
GMTM is changing that.
With new camp technology for recording and data tracking, immediate feedback is now possible. At each station, a player will tap a wristband to a sensor that immediately pulls up his or her previous data, readies the camera for filming, and primes the data tracking function to be ready to go. This process, something that normally would be very tedious and time-consuming, now only takes seconds to complete.
Once the player's clocked in and ready to roll, the player participates in a drill, and the data+video from that drill are tracked immediately and added to that player's GMTM profile. The coach working at that drill station can then pull up that film immediately, review it with the athlete, provide some quick bits of feedback, and make those improvements for the next time around. This helps the coach do his or her job better, and it helps the athlete improve his or her game quicker and easier.
Our goal at GMTM is to make it as easy as possible for athletes to discover new opportunities and market themselves as well as making it easy for coaches to discover these athletes. With camps and coaches using our technology and process, they will improve their athletes' level of play, experience at the camp, and be able to elevate that camp to be the best in the business.
