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April 27, 2019 • 14 mins

We know the PGA Tour guys use FlightScope and TrackMan every time they go practice...but what can we do to help our game? There are a ton of personal launch monitors on the market...so we dive into the FlightScope Mevo and see how it can help the average amateur get better? There's even a discount code...so you buy one for yourself!!!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, do you mind? We're up. We're playing through are
Actually it's just Froggy on this podcast. It's Froggy from
the Elvis Durrand Morning Show at Froggy Radio on Instagram
and Twitter. We're at playing Through podcast on Instagram, at
play through Golf on Twitter. So there are so many

(00:24):
different whether it's a training aid or whether it's ways
to judge how are you're hitting the club doing a
club fitting. There's so many different ways to judge how
you're hitting the ball. And one I've seen a lot
of stuff on TV. I've read a lot of stuff
articles and so you know what, I want to find
out more about the flight scope me vo. So we're

(00:44):
talking to Alex today from flight Scope. He knows all
there is to know about the flight scope Evo. Alex,
thank you so much for taking time to be on
the Playing Through podcast. I appreciate it. Yes, thank you, sir. So,
you know, there's so many different training aids, as was
just saying, in so many different ways. Now when you
go get fit for golf clubs, it's really not you

(01:04):
just hit it anymore. You can hit so many different
shafts and head combinations and just so many different things
that these I guess they're Doppler radars for lack of
you know, back just really what they are there, three
D Doppler radars. How have they changed the way that
golf is being fitted in the way it's being played, Well,
I think it's it's definitely changed the industry a lot.

(01:28):
I mean, um, I see it this way. You know,
if you have somebody breaks an arm, you know, they
obviously know they've they've got a broken arm, and they've
got to go to the doctor and they've got to
get an m R I and you know, flight scope
and our technology what we've basically designed as the m
R I for the golf swing using that Doppler technology,
so we can really see deep down inside, you know,

(01:49):
what's going on with the golf swing, what's going on
with the golf club, and at the end of the day,
what's going on with the ball flight. You see guys
like Dustin Johnson for example, hit a ball and they've
got where he's he hits and then he doesn't even
look at the screen. He can tell you how far
it's going. That's where these guys are so educated now
thank you to this technology that it's completely changed the

(02:10):
way that they're not only playing the game, but the
way they're practicing the game. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean they
have they have data, and they have metrics, and they understand, um,
you know what, every what, every shot they're doing, every
shot they hit has a purpose and they know the
outcome and if it's not the outcome they want, they
work on it and until they get the outcome that
they're looking for. But now they have something to actually

(02:32):
measure it with. Is it safe to say that every
single tour player has some form of one of these
Doppler radar systems in their bag now that they're training with,
are practicing with on the range. The percentage is pretty high.
I would say it's probably. It's probably there's still some
some guys that haven't really dove into it. Um, but

(02:56):
I would say the percentages are are pretty I mean
I'm out there every week and I see um, just
about everyone, not everyone, but it's getting there, right And
do you see guys they kind of haven't bought in
yet that are looking a little more interested or or
are looking at some of the products that are out
there to get better. Yes, I would say so, Um,
they there, you know it piques their interests. You know,

(03:18):
some some guys feel that they're more field players and
they're not very technical. But I think that that's a misunderstanding.
I don't think the technology is there um solely for
the people who are technical, the players that are technical.
I mean I work with Bryson and and you know
people consider him a very technical person um or technical player,

(03:38):
and actually he all he's doing is is for the fields.
You know, he's trying to get feels of what certain
clubs go, what the distances are. And the same thing
with Bubba. I mean, Bubba is definitely a field player,
and he's using the technology um just so he can
dial in those numbers. So the guys that aren't interested
are definitely it's piquing their interests. Yeah, it's funny people

(03:59):
that is the second you bring up I think I
heard Sean Foley say this, the second you bring up
getting technical. A lot of people want to tune out,
but yet they have no trouble going to buy a
driver that's got the basic scientists written all through it
who are doing all kinds of research to create that

(04:20):
driver and build it. There's all types of technology and
science in that but they don't want any of it
to do with their golf swing, but yet they use
it to hit every single shot. So it really doesn't
make a lot of sense to not use the data.
But my question is as a regular everyday golfer. I
know these tour guys are using it, but as a
regular everyday golfer, what does the mevo do for me

(04:43):
to help my game improve? Yeah? I think the mevo
is is a great introductory piece to the consumer market
because it allows players to First of all, you practice
with a purpose so you can become better. Um, So
you can go to the range and you can have
a range session where you have information such as your
club speed, your ball speed, your carry distance, your launch angle,

(05:07):
your spin rate, the height of the golf shot at
the time, the smash factor. And then all of this
is also correlated to a video that's taken from your phone.
So instead of just having what you know, what I
would call empty range sessions where you're just hitting balls
to a a flag, you actually have data you can
take back, you can analyze and and even if it's
not analyzing, even if you just collect data and say, hey,

(05:30):
you know what I was swinging it really good? Today
and maybe one of the days that you're not swinging good,
you can go back and see, hey, when I was
really swinging and good, this is what my numbers. These
are the numbers I was producing. And so now you
have benchmarks. And the great thing about the MEVO is
that it's it's not super technical where you're you're looking
at things that like angle of attack and club path

(05:50):
and horizontal planes, and you know, it's it's very basic,
but it's a lot of helpful information to help you
improve your game, even if it's just knowing how far
you actually hit every single club in the conditions that
you're playing in, right, because I think most people don't
know how far they hit. You know, Let's say they
pull an eight iron and they think, oh, I hit
this s eight on one fifty? Well, is that a

(06:10):
hundred and forty three a carry and seven a roll? Like?
So then can you carry it one fifty If you're
at that shot on a par three, that's got a
hundred and fifty yards worth of carry and you put
it in the water and think, oh, I didn't hit
that good. No, you may hit it the way you
normally hit it every other time, but you've thought that
you carry the ball a little further than you do,
and I think they were all a little guilty of that,

(06:32):
whether it's ego or whether it's just you know, adding
the role in knowing how far you carry each club
when you hit it good, and then how far do
you carry it when you don't hit it great, So
you know that, oh, you know what, if I don't
hit this perfect, it's not going to carry the hazard. Yeah,
you just understand your dv ands. And I think especially

(06:52):
with the driver, it happens the most because obviously we're
seeing the final result of of carry plus roll um.
But then when you're you know, when you're forced to
carry the driver a certain a certain distance, or you're
forced to carry a three with a certain distance, then
you start getting a little trouble because you're expecting the
ball to end up at a certain total distance, but

(07:12):
yet you might not. You might carry a fifteen or
twenty yards short of that. So with a driver it's
very important. I mean, even from my own personal game,
the mevos helped me a lot just understanding you know
exactly how far I hit it. Uh, not to include
the role, just to include the carry distance, but at
the end of the podcast, I'm gonna give you a
discount code and you can order one of these memos,

(07:35):
a personal portable launch monitor on your own at a
cheaper price. I just stay tuned until the end of
the podcast. I know you guys offer other products. You've
got the X three, the x I Tour, and the
x I Plus. What is different about those? What did
they do extra that this one doesn't do? Yeah, so,
so the X three is the top of of the

(07:57):
line product and those those units are the X three,
the x I Tour, and the XI Plus. They are
full tracking radars, and what that means is that they
actually tracked the golf ball until Atlants. The MIVO is
considered more of a launch monitor, where it tracks the
initial flight of the golf ball and then we run
a ballistic model, which is obviously still very accurate UM,

(08:18):
but doesn't have the full tracking capabilities as the X
three and the XI series UM. The X three UM
has some technology that we call fusion tracking, where we
basically take Doppler radar and image processing and we merge
them together so that we can accurately UM track shots
such as you're putting your chipping and even wedge shots

(08:39):
you know, down to like ten yards, so a ten
yard wedge shot, we can give your full dplane data,
club path, face, sang Linel attack, all those those numbers,
UM and has a very high captur rate so I
meaning you know, there's very little outliers, very little um,
you know, erroneous shots with with this type of technology.
Then the XI Tour and the XI Plus or UM

(09:02):
kind of the we'll call it the middle of the
road product where it's it's not as detailed as the
X three. It's it comes in a good introductory prices
for consumers or for professionals and players, um, but it's
just limited data. So the XIE Tour doesn't do any
chipping or putting. And then the XI Plus is simply
ball data, which is a lot of fitters are using

(09:23):
the x I Plus. So if you go and get fitted, uh,
you know for clubs, you want to see whatever single
club is doing, and you you want to add that
attack angle and some other information that you're not getting
from the mevo. That's the x I plus, Yes, that
would be the XI Plus, and then if you want
a little more than that, then you would go up
to the XI Tour so yeah, well, you know, honestly,

(09:45):
what what happens is we have we have players that
that will go into the XI series and eventually they
just upgrade to the X three because they, you know,
they want that other information. They become kind of more
involved with it and and they learn more about and
then upstairs there ready to upgrade, we upgrade them up
to the X three. Yeah. For guys like me who
are complete like I'm an electronics freak. I love apps,

(10:09):
I love phones, I love computers, I love any of
that kind of technology stuff. So that's why the Mevo
really it's at a great price, less than five bucks
and an introductory uh item into the portable Launch monitor,
which tells you so much more about your game. And
so you want to know, uh, what the ball is doing.
Are you really hitting it as far as you think

(10:31):
you're hitting it, Are you hitting it offline as much
as you think you're not hitting it offline? There's so
many different things you can find out, and this is
something that definitely and I know there's other um items
on the market, but I feel like the Mevo is
the most advanced at its price point that's available for
the consumers that correct. Yeah, I would, I would agree,

(10:52):
and it's as I think that obviously the technology. You know,
we've been doing this for a really long time. We've
been around for thirty years. We don't just do sporting,
we also do defense tracking, so we you know, we
we have a lot of technology into it. I mean,
it's it's had a good, you know, affordable price, but
it's not a gimmick. It's it's a real thing. It's
a real deal. And it's also you can use it

(11:13):
on sports other than golf. I see that some people
using it on baseball as well. And are there other
sports you can use it on? Yeah, currently it's just golf.
We do have some baseball applications for it, but we
are looking to develop it further. Wow, that's great. So
if you want to get one for yourself, and I'm
telling you it's a really really cool I actually used
one that a friend had a friend had purchased one,

(11:35):
and I could. It's just it's a lot of information. Listen,
be prepared for your ego to maybe take a slip.
You may not hit that eight iron as far as
you think you do, but it's real numbers and it's
gonna turn into better scores on the golf course. You
can get one at flight Scope me Vo flight Scope Mevo,

(11:57):
mm e v o dot com. In if you use
the discount code play five zero play fifty, you'll get
fifty bucks off your purchase of the Mevo. Alex thinks
for your time, I appreciate it. I know you work
with a lot of tour guys. I know you see
a lot of stuff on tour. What would you say
is the number one thing that people see different and

(12:19):
it changes their game after they use the mevo um.
I think just understanding understanding the actual deviances of each club,
you know, like we're talking about earlier, how far does
the good one go? How far does the bad one go?
And then just having a good understanding that, hey, somewhere
in the middle is where my average is gonna be.
And just having that understanding help, I think, helps players

(12:40):
better attack the golf course. It's very simple to use.
You just plug it in. The battery seems to last
for a while. Buddy of mine that was using his
said that he didn't have to charge it every single
time he used it. He would go out do a
rain session and use this phone and and the vo
collected connected Bluetooth and then he was able to use
it a couple of times. The battery lasted pretty well, Yeah,

(13:02):
it does, you know. Honestly, I don't think I've charged
mine in like two weeks, so I don't use it
every day, but I haven't charged it in a while,
so it does last for a while. Um. Definitely, you
can use it for a full day and and and
have plenty of battery life. So and can you use
it indoors as well as it's just an outdoor application. No, absolutely,
you can use it indoors. Indoors. We do require that

(13:22):
it has a metallic the golf will has a metallic dot. Um,
but that again, that's just indoors, and that's just so
that the radar can at least see one revolution of
the golf ball. And then outdoors you just you know,
set it down connected to your phone and you're ready
to go. Good deal once again, it's flight scope me
vot dot com. Use the discount code play that's p
l A Y five zero play fifty and get fifty

(13:46):
bucks off. Alex, thank you so much, appreciate you being
on the Playing Through podcast and thanks for informing us
more about how we can make our game better with
the mevo. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
So you have it. You want to get better at golf,
and you're a tech guy like most of us are
who play this game. Go online right now, flight scope mevo.
That's flight Scope m e V as in Victor oh

(14:07):
dot com. Flight scope mevo and get yourself a mevo.
Use discount code play fifty and get fifty bucks off.
Thank you so much for listening to the Playing Through podcast.
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