I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Pro Looper in the last few days.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to be sure all your questions are answered. Everything I’ve gotten so far is below. If you still have a question, post it as a comment, and I’ll get back to ya asap!

In addition to all the technology of Looper (including Club Tracker, 3D shot tracking, interactive graphs, My Goal tool, and more) you get unlimited personal golf instruction for one LOW flat rate.

During Masters weekend ONLY, the prices are:

Looper = $14/yr
Pro Looper = $14/mo OR $99/yr

Here’s how you do it:

1. Film your swing. Anywhere. Anytime. With any digital camera (including your phone’s camera). Email it to us.

2. Our PGA certified instructor reviews your swing. He uses cutting edge technology to make a video showing you exactly what is right and wrong with your swing. He assigns drills specifically to address the flaws in your swing.

3. You are notified when your video is ready, usually within 24 hours, and you watch it on your computer or phone.

4. Work on the drills, get better, and do it again! As often as you want. Unlimited personalized instruction for one low flat rate.

When you get Pro Looper, you get a LOT:

A PGA certified instructor with 25 years experience

Brad Smith is the new head pro at Swing by Swing Golf and when we launch, he is personally recording all private lessons.

Brad has been a PGA pro for 25 years! He’s taught mens & womens college golf teams. He’s a Nike camp instructor. He’s been nominated golf instructor of the year several times.

You’re getting professional advice from a seasoned golf pro who has seen it all in the golf world. You can be assured you’re getting only top notch golf instruction.

If I don’t answer your question here, please leave a comment below and I’ll follow up!

Existing Pro Loopers are already locked in

One great thing about being a Pro Looper is that no matter what we roll out in the future to make the membership better, you’re locked in at whatever rate you got in at. Pro Loopers who got in at the launch price last year are very happy right now!

So, if you are a Pro Looper already, you don’t need to do anything. We’ll send you instructions early next week on how to start getting your personal golf lessons.

Learn golf on your terms

No need to show up at a specific time or place. Film yourself using your smartphone, and email the videos to us. You can be on the range, on the course, hitting into a net, on the putting green… it doesn’t matter!

Save hundreds or thousands of dollars on golf lessons

Golf lessons traditionally cost $50-100/hr. If you took 1 lesson per week for 6 months, you’d pay a minimum of $1,200. With Swing by Swing, you’d pay the same low flat rate you signed up for. (I’ll announce the price Wednesday night.)

Simple, straight-forward advice on how to improve your golf swing

Ignore the golf magazines, and don’t waste your money on generic golf instruction DVD’s. You can finally have a high quality golf instructor give you drills specifically designed for YOU.

Available to anybody in the world

As long as you understand English (because that’s the only language we know how to speak for now) you can benefit from these professional golf lessons. This could be a particularly valuable process if you live in a part of the world without access to top notch instructors.

Ability to chat back-and-forth with your pro

When was the last time you had a conversation with the Golf Channel? Or Golf Mag? Brad is a real person, who wants you to get better at golf. He wants to know how your game is progressing. You can chat back-and-forth with Brad any time.

Smart golf instruction, not “dumb” generic advice

The video you film of yourself is analyzed by Brad Smith, our PGA pro, with a voice over, using cutting edge software. You can see exactly what is right and wrong with your golf swing, and fix it easily.

All the features of Looper are included

The Pro Looper membership comes with all Looper features standard. You’ll have incredible technology at your fingertips to help measure and improve your game. Including Club Tracker, 3D shot tracker, interactive stats and graphs, My Goal, benchmark yourself against the community, and much more.

Golf instruction just like the PGA tour guys get…

Pro Looper takes personal golf instruction a step into the future because, just like the PGA pros, your instructor has access to your Swing by Swing stats. He knows your strengths and weaknesses on the course, and he can take them into account when analyzing your swing.

Teaching you one thing at a time

When you read a Golf magazine, you walk away more confused than when you started. Chances are, you don’t need the same drill a PGA pro uses for his game… you need a drill specifically designed for YOUR swing, and YOUR game. And that’s what Pro Looper is – simple, easy to understand, and personalized golf instruction, just for you.

Real people giving real feedback and advice

Just to be clear, this is not a computer program being smart about your swing. This is a human being, operating cutting edge computer programs to analyze your swing and assign drills to help you get better.

30 day money back guarantee, cancel easily at any time

Guaranteed to take strokes off your game, and be worth way more than the money it costs, or we’ll give you a no-questions asked refund within 30 days.

We use PayPal as our payment processor. So, you can be sure that it’s easy to cancel your membership at any time, even without speaking to a Swing by Swing rep. However, if you want a refund (within 30 days) or to cancel your membership, you can also send an email to contact@swingbyswing.com or use our public support forum.

Get an external battery to extend the life of your phone

When you become a Pro Looper, we send an external battery, extending the life of your phone by up to 36 hours.

Get a phone holder to attach your phone to your bag

We send you a free phone holder, that can attach to just about anything. You can use this fun little toy to attach your phone to the top of your bag when you film your swing.

Even BlackBerry guys can benefit

If your phone can take a video, or if you have a digital camera that can take video, you can benefit from a Pro Looper subscription. The Club Tracker module is not available on the BlackBerry platform, but you can definitely take advantage of the video instruction component.

It all goes live on Thursday morning

This is a special launch over Masters weekend.

A lot of people have asked WHAT TIME should I expect the email? The answer is… whenever I roll my lazy ass out of bed and send it… It will probably be around 6am PST for Loopers, 7am for those on the notification list and 8am for everybody else.

A crazy low price

Here are the LOW introductory prices, for the launch only. When Masters is over, the price goes up.

Looper – $14/yr = Technology, tools, graphs, stats, and insight to improve your game.

Pro Looper – $14/mo OR $99/yr = Everything Looper + Unlimited Professional Instruction + External Battery + Phone Holder. Only 500 new memberships available

Got more questions?

Ask ‘em below. I’ll get back to you asap.

Travis

Please welcome Brad Smith to the Swing by Swing family!

Brad has been a PGA certified teaching instructor for 25 years. Now, he’s the head pro at Swing by Swing, leading the charge to bring you cutting edge technology in golf instruction.

Give a shout out to Brad! Say “hey”, and ask him your questions.

Like,

“I’m an 8 handicap. Can you really help me get down to a 4 handicap?”

“I’m a golf newbie… will you make fun of me if I send in a video?”

“I’m serious about golf. I am nearly a scratch golfer. Are you seriously suggesting I could improve with your video instruction?”

“I’m a female golfer, and I’m getting serious about golf. I want to get better. Do you think you can help?”

Or…

“Hey Brad! Welcome to Swing by Swing!”
Or, “Hey Brad, you must be crazy to get in bed with these jerks at Swing by Swing!”
Or, “Hey Brad, nice goatee!”

You know – it really doesn’t matter. Just sound off below!

Hi fellow Golfer,

I need your help…

We are putting the finishing touches on one of the most incredible tools we’ve ever built at Swing by Swing.

We’re pretty good programmers over here… (and darn good looking to boot) but I’m about as creative as Steve Job’s left butt cheek.

I need your help naming this new tool – and I’ll give the winner a free year of Pro Looper (which will now include unlimited Professional instruction). Just leave a comment below to enter the contest.

Right now, for lack of a better term, we call it “The Trainer”.

The jist is this:

You tell me what you want to shoot. I tell you what you need to do to shoot it.

Over the last couple of years, millions of rounds have been played with our software. Hundreds of thousands of scorecards submitted. So we know exactly the stats you need to achieve to hit a specific score.

And, when you submit YOUR stats via Swing by Swing, I know exactly where all your numbers need to move to hit your number.

I.e., if you want to shoot a 76, I’ll tell you how many Pars it takes, how many Birdies it takes, Greens in Regulation, Putts per round, etc… And, I compare those numbers against your numbers, and tell you what you’re doing good – and bad – and give you the laser focus you need – on exactly the areas you need it – to hit your number.

Click this thumbnail to see a bigger screenshot to know exactly what I’m talking about:

The winner will receive a free year of Pro Looper, including unlimited Professional instruction, and access to everything that is Looper (including this new Trainer tool). That’s a value of several thousand dollars… (but, of course, everybody probably won’t pay quite that much for Pro Looper…)

To enter the contest, just leave a comment below with your name.

If you’re not on the launch notification list yet, click here to jump on.

Do you want to break 80? Is it 90? 100?

I find that most golfers have a specific number they want to break. Only the Pros say “More.”

What’s your number? Let me know below.

Here’s the lowdown:

• You can be located anywhere.
• You can work in your pajamas if you want. I don’t care.
• You’ll have the security of a full time contract.
• You can be you. Personality is encouraged.
• You don’t need years of experience. You can be fresh out of school, ready to make a name for yourself.
• You’ll develop relationships with hundreds (or thousands) of golfers around the world.

You will need the following skills:

• Serious teaching skills – You can be new, but you gotta be good too!
• Computer savvy – you’ll be doing video reviews using V1 (or similar) software. You will download videos from the Internet, do a video review, voice over, and upload it back to the Internet for your golfer to see. Prior experience using golf swing analysis software is highly desirable.
• People skills – you kinda have to like people to do this stuff.
• Comfort on camera and the phone – in your free time, you’ll film golf swing tips to use as content on our site and in our emails. You may be required to speak with clients on the phone.
• Self-motivated – since you won’t be in my office to whip around, you need to be able to whip yourself into action.
• Reliable – not exactly a common trait for teaching pros! But, alas, you must be reliable to do this job – our customers expect a quick turn-around time for their video lessons. Your schedule is flexible – there are no specific office hours, but that can sometimes mean long days, too.
• Clear English – you don’t even need to be in the US to do this job, but you DO need to speak clear, non-accented English.
• Your own computer – not 100% a requirement, we can provide a computer for the right candidate, but since this is a contract position, you should have your own computer.
• A quiet place to work, with a good Internet connection – Since this is a “work at home” gig, you need to provide yourself a good working environment. We don’t want a lot of background noise in our voice-overs, and there won’t be an extra allowance for Internet charges or office expenses.

If you’re interested, send an email to contact@swingbyswing.com with your resume and contact details. Be sure to highlight any experience you have with golf swing analysis software.

Thanks, and looking forward to working with you!

Travis Giggy
Founder
Swing by Swing Golf

First off, sorry to all you golfers in the great white North. We ‘suthners are about to enjoy some awesome golf over the winter!

(It’s no wonder everybody in the USA retires to Florida and Arizona…)

And since we just released a new version of Swing by Swing with handicaps and Stableford scoring, I expect us ‘suthners will be playing A LOT of golf!

Yesterday we released a new version of SbS for iPhone and Android with a bunch of new features:

Free range finder new features:

• Track the distance of any individual shot. (Sorta like “Club Tracker Lite”)

If you want the real-deal Club Tracker, check out Looper here.

Scorecard new features:

• Play with Stroke Play or Stableford
• Enter Handicaps for each Player
• Quicker score entry
• Updated Scorecard view to include Totals/Net, which holes you’re stroking on, and easy identification of every player
• Scorecard preview when turning the phone into landscape mode

The Scorecard has a free 3-round trial. Even if you took advantage of a free Scorecard trial in the past, you can try it out again with the new features. To start your trial, just load the latest version of Swing by Swing on your phone and play a new round.

Download the latest version by visiting your mobile app store.

Enjoy! (And, don’t forget to let us know what you think about the latest version)

Travis Giggy
Swing by Swing Golf

PS. Are you a BB user? Click here to read why we are not upgrading the BB platform.

Over the past year, Swing by Swing has been busy upgrading the iPhone and Android operating systems. But, we’ve left the BB version pretty much untouched. To say the least, this has irked a lot of folks.

Today, I’d like to make our BlackBerry position public, and apologize to all Swing by Swing users on the BB platform.

As I’ve explained before, the BB operating system is a nightmare to program for. When they only had 4 versions of the OS, we had basically 48 different systems to account for. Now they have 6 different OS versions! And they keep changing the damn thing with each release and have no backward compatibility.

Basically, it’s like trying to code for 72 different operating environments…

We are just a small 3 person coding team over here, and we’re trying to compete with larger companies, with more funding, and more developers. We’re good, but we have to focus our development effort where it will give the most bang-for-the-buck.

The combination of a difficult coding environment and BlackBerry losing market share has dealt a killer blow to our BB ambitions. We are currently trying to roll out an updated version of SbS for BB which will include Scorecard updates and work with the latest operating systems. It will not include Club Tracker and it will not include Stableford or Handicaps.

When this version is in-the-wild, we will not be releasing an updated version again. We will remove the BB logo and download links from our website. We will make it very difficult for new BB users to find us.

We will continue to support the existing BB software, and you’ll have access to the latest course information and Scorecard and Statistics upgrades.

I understand this will not make a lot of people happy, and I’m sorry for that. I wish BB would get their stuff together and help folks like me help folks like you.

If you want to vent, this is the place to do it. I’ll be around to answer any questions.

Thanks,

Travis

Funny, funny, funny…

http://www.chucktheputter.com/golf-jokes/24-laws-of-golf/

If you are a BlackBerry user on the Rogers Wireless network, please leave a message below and tell us about your experience.

Some of our Rogers BB users are using the app just fine. And others are having issues. So, we’re hoping to start a conversation about configuration and phone types, and figure out what’s up!

When you leave a message below, you’ll help us track down the issue, and help your fellow Canadian golfers as well.

Thanks for your input -

Travis

We’d like to implement Stableford scoring into the Swing by Swing system.

It will probably be a part of the Looper membership.

Stableford itself is pretty straight-forward. There is a different score based upon how you do on the hole.

When you start trying to adjust the “fixed score” and take handicaps into account, it starts getting more complex.

Please weigh in with your thoughts: If SbS does Stableford, what functionality do you want to see?

Thanks for your input!

Travis

PS. If you want to learn more about Looper, which includes Scorecard, Club Tracker, 3D flyovers, and a ton of other cool stuff designed to reduce your handicap and help you have more fun on the course – check it out here.