We help our clients realize their most important goals. With years of experience and unmatched credentials, The Kickers Zone is uniquely equipped to make a significant and lasting impact on clients’ lives.
We know our clients’ needs are always changing, so continually seek new and improved ways to serve them.
As you can see from our website we have a passion (and prior experience) in working with a niche market: the football kicker/punter/placekicker specialist. The Internet it is becoming more important to not just have a “social profile” that can be viewed online, but for the football kicker/punter specialists to have their own Video Sideline Coach/Trainer who can quickly and accurately assist them with getting the recognition they deserve!
Video Sideline Coach/Trainer™ is a feature rich software product designed with our partner Silicon Coach (www.siliconcoach), one of the world leaders in video analysis and biomechanics. This tool is designed for the high school, college or professional football kicking coaches that allows them to capture, analyze, watch then review with the athlete (either in person or upload/download via the Internet through The Kickers Zone portal) and then provide a fee for service (either in person one-on-one training, or via upload/download through The Kickers Zone portal) of their coaching analysis, even using their own voice to provide feedback.
With every football kicking/punting scholarship being offered in today’s highly competitive market, College coaches do not have the time nor luxury to review each potential kicking specialist and many times offers are made based on Regional/National camps, recruiting websites or even by word of mouth!
The Kickers’ Zone Video Sideline Coach/TrainerTM builds upon players’ skills and highlights videos from the coaches who have actually witnessed (and graded) the football kicker/punter specialists’ skills. The best part of this program is that our experienced coaches who are providing evaluations don’t bring any hidden agenda and their desire is to provide some great feedback for which players might not receive otherwise.
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KickersTime™ – This is a fully featured hands free capture and instant replay software product that allows the kicking specialist and high level special team’s coach to watch the kicking skills being executed right on the field so as to provide almost instant visual feedback – or you can wait until you arrive home and review the analysis.
With KickersTime™, you can review steps, plant foot angles, ball striking and follow through techniques then refine these movements from one drill to the next, and all in the same kicking/training session. With KickersTime™, this now becomes an indispensable training aid for improving your kicking techniques on the field.
Recommended Computer and Camera setup for KickersTime™ and Video Sideline Coach/Trainer™
Computer/Laptop
Internet connection
Windows® 7 64 bit
CD read/write
Sound card
One Firewire (IEEE 1394) card or Firewire port for laptop
2.2MHz Core 2 Duo or greater
4 GB RAM
Graphics card
320 GB free hard disk space (for the video files)
A 19” or 22” monitor with at least 1024 vertical pixels (eg 1280 x 1024 or
1680 x 1050). Higher resolutions may make the text and buttons too small.
Camcorders
Depending on your needs there are 2 ways to capture video into your computer. One is a ‘live’ feed where whatever the camera is looking at is also shown in the software. The other is to capture files onto the camera’s hard drive and then download them to the computer at a later time.
With the increasing scarcity of MiniDV camcorders around the world, the ‘live feed over Firewire’ option is becoming less available so we have had to alter the way users can get live video feeds into our software. Unfortunately the USB cables that come with the camcorders only allow you to download files, they do not provide a live video feed.
Our new USB method uses the live AV output from the camcorder and a Hauppauge AV to USB converter. This dramatically increases the number of cameras you can plug into your computer and get a ‘live’ feed from.
Option 1 (where available)
Entry level mini DV camera with IEEE 1394 out
Or
Option 2
HD Handy Cam and USB to DV Converter
Ensure the Handy Cam has an analogue video stream which will then be converted to DV via the USB to DV converter. We recommend the Panasonic SDR-H85 SD/HDD Video Camera (or similar model) http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Standard-Definition-Camcorders/model.SDR-H85K_11002_7000000000000005702 and a Haupauge USB Live 2 http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_usblive2.html
If you don’t have one yet you can buy the Hauppauge USB2‐Live from: www.dell.com (search for ‘USB‐Live2’)
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