OPTISHOT golfsimulator??
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:11
Noen som har testet denne golfsimulatoren? http://www.dancindogg.com/ Ser den koster 400 dollars og det hadde jo vært morsomt om den var ok å bruke.
Ingen ved sine fulle fem våger å ta det veddemålet rett og slett på grunn av frykten for å vinneveggiss wrote:jeg vedder 8 kjønnshår på at den der suger mer enn bunkerspillet mitt.
Kan det være at du hadde "boost" på dine slag? Slik at du fikk mange gratismeterGrønne greener wrote:Når det gjelder lengdene så kan jeg nevne at jeg var på BGS i dag og slo 7` over 230 meter!
Tviler sterkt på at simulatoren målte feil...
Highlights
Playing golf in your living room in the middle of winter would be a joy for our northern friends.
Fairly accurate with face angle and swing path.
Extremely easy setup.
Ability to use every club in your own bag and watch it come to life on the monitor.
Graphically speaking, it was a hit.
Lowlights
Definitely must have a darker room.
Found the club head speed pretty baffling at times
Accuracy was not on par with the simulators we have tested and/or our launch monitor
You can swing the same club with the same swing and produce wildly different club head speeds and distances by changing the club that the computer thinks you’re swinging. As I mentioned, in the interest of being warm, I played most of my golf in my living room while only swinging a pitching wedge. If I selected “Pitching Wedge,” my clubhead speed was around 60MPH and the ball went around 80 yards. If I selected “Driver,” my clubhead speed jumped to anywhere from 85-100MPH and the ball went 230 yards or more.
You can miss the ball entirely and still produce a good shot. The product literature says that the Optishot measures angle of attack, but I saw no evidence that it does, or if it does, it doesn’t seem to use the data. I produced equal shots with flat swings, steep swings, and swings that missed the ball. Similarly, the Optishot does not differentiate between a flick of the wrists and a rock of the shoulders.
You can make a good swing and not have it register. One part of my recent swing reconstruction has been to hinge the club up early in the backswing. I found that if I did this too early, the sensors behind the ball would not “see” my club moving backwards. Similarly, if I came into impact “too far” from the inside, it would not register.
The distances that each club travels are inexplicable. I spent a lot of time hitting each club on the range and I could not get a sense for the logic of it. I would not have a problem with the device if it told me that my pitching wedge went 80 yards and my 9I went 90 yards and so on. While that isn’t realistic, at least it makes a degree of sense. My experience was that my PW went 80-85, my 9I went 82-87, and my 8I went 87 yards except when it went 110.
If you couldn’t have guessed by this list of “issues,” I was severely disappointed with the Optishot.
Why an update?
Shortly after I posted my review of the Dancin’ Dogg Optishot Golf Simulator, I was contacted by a representative from Dancin’ Dogg. She told me that the company wasn’t upset about the review, but they were concerned about the fact that I had tried to contact them and received no reply. She also thought that there might have been an issue with the unit that I received, and she offered to send another unit out for a re-test. I was impressed with their attitude towards the process and their belief in their product, so I agreed. Shortly thereafter, another Optishot arrived. Admittedly, it has taken me quite a while to get around to testing, but I’m glad that I did. I don’t know if the changes are the result of software, hardware, or some combination, but this machine is nothing like the one I tested in January.
Updated Results
The first issue that I had with the previous unit was distance: clubs went seemingly random, often overlapping, distances. This is a non-issue with the current unit. Each club goes a particular, consistent distance. The distances aren’t perfectly accurate to real life, but they are consistent which is all you can really ask for.
The second issue I had was with direction: the ball had a strong tendency to go right unless I made a huge over the top swing. Again, this is not an issue with the new unit. I can actually tell, without looking at the screen, where the ball is going to go. If I make an over the top, hooky swing, the ball goes left. If I fail to release the club, the ball goes right. Good swings go straight.
Conclusion
My earlier review concluded that this was a fun toy for people who aren’t very serious golfers. That needs to be amended. I think that given the results of this recent testing, the Dancin’ Dogg Optishot is a good way for those of us in cold climates to keep swinging during the winter, and it’s a fun way to introduce golf to kids or non-golfing friends.