Can this REALLY Make You a Better Golfer, or is it too GOOD to be TRUE?!

This incredible new golf swing trainer has the potential to make you a much better golfer, but it also has us wondering: is it too GOOD to be TRUE?!

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⏰ Timecodes ⏰
0:00 – Intro
0:57 – What is the BAL.ON Smart Kit?
2:41 – Unboxing the BAL.ON Smart Kit
5:59 – Setting up and Feature Overview of the BAL.ON Insoles
11:00 – Live Demonstration Using the BAL.ON Smart Kit
14:37 – Breaking Down the BAL.ON Swing Data
19:35 – Using BAL.ON to Improve Your Golf Game
22:26 – BAL.ON Smart Kit Price Breakdown
23:50 – Who Should Use the BAL.ON Smart Kit?

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all right you guys know we love uncovering new tech training AIDS and we’re even more impressed when they actually do what they say they’ll do and for a little context we first discovered this when we were at the PGA show earlier this year and of course we had to pick one up because if it does what they say it’ll do it could possibly unlock a whole other level of golf swing training for your everyday golfer and I got to say since getting this a couple of days ago we’ve been messing around with it quite a bit and there’s a lot about this that I like however there is at least one thing that possibly makes it a little too good to be true but hey who knows maybe by the time you’re watching this video the company’s already sorted that out and it’s no longer concern but right now it is a a major concern of mine so let’s first talk about what it is why you should care and whether or not it’s for you let’s let’s dig into this one all right so effectively what this smart kit does is it measures things like balance Ground Forces pressure that you put into the ground through your feet during a golf swing and and why this really matters is as I get further down this journey of learning the golf game and honing my swing and working on getting better I’m finding I’m using that type of information more when I go and work with coaches but unfortunately the trouble that holds a lot of us back is the cost associated with that uh right now some of the top tier pre premium uh Force measuring devices that are out there like the swing Catalyst cost north of $20,000 so not only is it inaccessible for everyday golfers like us it’s actually rare you come across a coach who has that technology I will say though when you do see it in action uh it is a amazing data point to really help you understand your swing better so of course if there’s a way that you can take that technology and make it more accessible for everyday golfers through cost and ease of use then it’s a huge win for all of us and on top of that more and more of us are finding new ways to really work on our game at home you know in fact I recently did a video where I built an entire Simulator for under $5,000 right in my garage which is something we couldn’t conceive of just a couple of years ago that was technology that was Out Of Reach for most people and now it’s becoming more accessible and if you can do things like adding this in to your practice session then there’s a good chance you’re going to get better much quicker all right so first let’s do this let’s unbox this so I can show you what comes in the kit then I’ll do a little demonstration and show you how it works and more importantly how I’ve been using it and then we can dig into like I said who this is for because I think there’s a couple things that’s going to make this too good to be true for some people while the other time it might be like a really great addition to what you’re already doing so opening this up first and foremost one thing you’re going to notice is that the brand is continental and yeah you’re right that is the tire company it’s kind of surprising to see them getting into the golf space but big company lot of resources and you can see where they’ve put some of their Tech actually right into these insoles so opening it up here comes with a really kind of nice case to keep everything together and then when you open this you’ll see inside that you’ve got two insoles you’ve got some Chargers here some clips to hold them onto your shoes and then you also have the actual brains of the device uh which sits on its own little charger charges via USB and then when you’re ready these pop off and these are going to pop right onto the insoles one thing that I think is really important with this this is something that really was a huge tick in the Pro column for me is just how slim these truly are um they are no thicker than I was trying to think of a point of reference and it’s basically the exact thickness of a scorecard so a thick piece of paper think uh which why this is important is I I have actually tried some smart insoles in the past and one thing that you know Al not although not hugely obtrusive one thing that I wasn’t a huge fan of is that because of the thickness of some of those previous ones that I’ve tested you had to take out the insoles that were in your shoes well with these it’s a different story they’re so slim you can actually lay them right over whatever insoles you have in your shoes so if you’ve got some really comfortable golf shoes and you don’t want to mess with that you’ve got that but also for anyone out there who’s using custom orthotics good news is these will go right on top of them so that is a huge benefit and I will tell you once they’re in your shoes you do not feel them they are razor thin and the other thing that’s important to point out with regards to them being so razor thin and comfortable is the fact that outside of your practice sessions you can actually even wear these out on the golf course uh which is really cool if you’ve ever wanted to gain that Insight if you feel like some aspects of your swing are changing when you actually get out there and play golf versus your practice session well is a great way to kind of uncover that because as we all know Under Pressure Sometimes some of those swing faults kind of come out so you can wear these out on the golf course I’ve been predominantly wearing them for practice but at some point I do want to get these out on the course and and give it a try there as well but the good news is like I said once they’re in your golf shoes you really can kind of set it and forget it and there’s really no interference when it comes to swinging or walking all right so overall all pretty simple so far we got the insoles in now let’s kind of dive into the app show you a little bit about how it works and it’s all pretty easy it uses Bluetooth to connect to the insole so when I fire this up you can kind of see here there’s an indication to pair them one at a time I’ll just press pair it’s going to find that and then I’ll pair the other side going to pair that one as well you got my left and right and you can immediately see this heat graph so if I start to move towards my toes you see the the red indication that’s where the pressure is towards the heels it’s instantaneous and I’ll talk more in a second about multiple ways to use that even in stuff that’s less than full swing in fact I think the the sneaky good way to use this is with putting and chipping especially working on that setup but I know the thing everybody wants to see is full swing so kind of diving a little bit further into that it’s simple as just kind of hitting continue we can see our Trace line and I will say this there are some things in this that are part of the free version and there are parts that are part of the paid version I’ll cover all that in a second when I talk about the overall price but one thing I will say that I’ve got to give credit to is there’s actually a lot in the free version you’re actually able to do quite a bit and I did mess around with the free for a couple of days I didn’t find it too limiting uh but then just kind of wanted to show you guys and see everything I did sign up for the paid subscription so again we’ll talk about all that in a second but importantly as I show you this one thing to keep in mind is that there’s a lot of data which is great but sometimes that can be a little bit overwhelming if the system is going to be in my opinion actually useful it’s got to find a way to show us that in a method that we can actually understand it as everyday golfers and not coaches and use it to get better so there’s a couple ways they do that that I’m going to show you including using some score numbers that we can just work on improving that number rather than knowing the fine details of what some of those Force graphs really mean but the other really smart thing that they’ve got built into this is as we see with a lot of things now an AI coach component so what it’ll do is it’ll Identify some of the areas where you’re outside of what they would consider a range kind of best practices from pro golfers and it will immediately give you drills that you can do to improve there but even more importantly it gives you kind of a step by step that you can follow in the drill while using these heat maps and these Trace lines to see if you’re doing the drill correctly I think that’s most important we can all see a drill but if we’re not doing it right we’re not getting any better so there’s a lot of that in there so let’s let’s hit one now and show you exactly what feedback we get all right so we’re going to fire up a new session here and show you a live demonstration but before I do that important to also show you what I do like about this app is that it does save all your previous sessions and you can go into any of those you can rewatch the swings uh you’re also able to make notes on the sessions and you can kind of see and track your progress over time cuz what’s important there obviously is making sure that we’re getting better so being able to go back and kind of look at some of the sessions that I’ve done before is important and one thing personally that I’ve struggled with for quite a while is really shifting my weight to my lead side on the down swing so this is something that allows me to work on that and measure that it’s not something that’s always easily picked up by a camera and you know a lot of coaches have a really trained eye but again I’m trying to work on some of this stuff at home I’m not always in front of a coach so if that works for it then this is a a absolutely perfect application but again importantly you do see all of your previous sessions on there uh I’ve also been working quite a bit on driver I absolutely love my new GT that I put in the bag we got fit for that towards the uh end of last summer and I’ve seen dramatic improvements in I’m hitting more Fairways I’m getting more yardage out of it the spin is more consistent but at some point Point there’s only so much that the club can do and if I want to take that even to the next level I’ve got to make sure that I’m using the ground properly so not only is it kind of honing my swing and and getting rid of some of those inconsistencies that you can really see appear when you look at it through this lens but it’s also if you really start want to start hitting the ball further you got to use the ground you hear people say that all the time but what does that mean well you’re going to see exactly what that means here so let’s let’s take a swing and show you live what that’s like all right so what I’m going to do here is I’m going to first click new session uh we’re going to select our club first you can hit any club in your bag let’s not hit driver right out the gate first swing of the day let’s maybe hit a couple eight irons first but the other thing I really like about this is you can select the number of swings you want it to record I think the sweet spot is 3 to 5 that’s what I’ve been using what I do like about this is that it uses the camera on your iPhone you can set it up you’ll see in a second how we set it up to record that video which syncs up with the data that we’re getting from the insoles but you don’t need to interfere with it you can just kind of take your swings you can work on those feels that you’re working on and it actually part of the AI component is that it uses AI to chop those videos and it actually will assign the different positions the important positions in your swing like address um top of the back back swing impact follow through all those will be done and just preut for you and then what I really like is it creates like I mentioned before a really nice catalog of all your swings and all those positions you don’t need to do anything so you just tell it how many swings you’re going to be taking uh they’ve got a spot in there to tell it what size sole you’re using that’s important I didn’t mention that earlier these do come in I think four different sizes that effectively cover uh pretty much from the smallest shoe size all the way down to the biggest you can imagine and the good news is is that each one C covers a pretty good range so if you are using this with maybe other people in the household if they’ve got a similar shoe size it’s very interchangeable um so we’re going to put it in there and then I’m going to let it know that I’ve got the pressure soles on top of my original insoles and that’s where you can see again where you can basically put this underneath on top or even if you’ve got Orthopedic insoles you can tell the system that and it does all the adjustments that it needs to do without having to interfere with us so we’re going to put it on top of the originals and we’re going to hit start session all right so you can see real quick that I’ve got my iPhone on a simple little tripod there and the app is using the forward-facing camera to record my swing and it’s going to sync that up with the data that we’re getting from the insoles what I like is that it’s got like a little bit of a like a golfer Shadow there that just kind of helps you align your yourself make sure you’re in the right spot doesn’t have to be perfect uh but as long as you’re in that general area remember it’s going to use AI to kind of crop that video and get everything aligned uh the other thing that you get too is you’ve got some vibration feedback that’s built actually into the device itself so it’ll give me a little vibration that just basically tells me that I’m ready to record and it’ll also give me vibrations that after each swing telling me that it’s got a successful capture so with that said let’s uh go ahead and take our swings here so I get quick visual feedback that the swing swing’s been recorded I also got vibration in the shoes to let us know that it captured it and then we’re going to set up like I said no need to start and stop we just set up and keep going just got another vibration there saying it’s ready for the next Swing Swing number two like I said we set it for three swings just to get a few more data points one more here all right there’s our three swings let’s take a look at what data we got okay so the other thing I like everything is fairly instantaneous we’re just going to click review my results and like I said earlier you’ll see here you’ve got a couple things one is that you’ve got a score out of a 100 so even though I’m going to show you some of this data can look a little overwhelming if you’re not used to seeing it if you’re not a coach here it’s simplified down even if we just go on that score SC out of 100 and just work on constantly improving that and getting closer to 100 we’re already doing ourselves a service I’ll show you also in a second at the top you can see there you’ve got the AI coach analysis So based on what I did wrong it’s going to suggest a drill I’ll show you that in a second we can also down at the bottom we can add notes to the session if we want and we can see each swing according to this the second swing was my best on that score out of 100 I’m going to click that and then you have here a I’m going to play this back slower so we can see it you have here a synced up automatically and automatically cut representation of both my swing visually through the camera as well as below all of the data that came from the insole so if I press play I can watch it in real time I can watch that weight shift and I can even watch that Trace line as it moves through the other thing I like to do is I can then manually SC rub through here for me a big thing I’ve been working on is my impact position you can see there I’m not quite getting enough of my weight to my front side I’m constantly working on that but I can look at that showing you some of the other stuff that we have here you also have this balance graph which is fantastic if you’re looking at that balance in a little bit different representation again hang tight if that seems like it’s a little bit confusing I’ll show you where that gets simpler in a second but showing you everything you also have a total pressure graph and for anybody out there who might be thinking about working on you know hitting the ball further using the ground applying more forces this is really awesome because you can see not only from left and right but also total how much pressure you’re applying into the ground because as you guys know you put more force in the ground you get more Force back and that’s how we hit the ball further so we got total pressure we’ve got balance we’ve got a heat map a lot here but it keeps going this is is one of my favorite screens we’ve got a number of different broken down individual scores which if you’re not used to seeing this is going to help guide you in the right direction so we’ve got setup back swing and impact we also have rhythm transition timing Max vertical and Max timing now there’s a couple ways to look at this one is simplified where we’ve got scores and we’ve got generalities like too fast too slow on time all that type of stuff but if you really want to geek out you can select here to show the raw data and here’s where we can see our exact Rhythm you know here generally a 3:1 ratio is what people consider to be the more acceptable Rhythm now it varies golfer to golfer but you can see that I could see exactly my transition timing down to the milliseconds it’s all there and I can look at my setup back swing and impact and exactly where my balance was at each one of those points even more so I can click into each one and see what I had and what they’re saying is kind of that range like I said there’s no one exact number that’s perfect for everyone but the goal is based on a range and if you’re far outside of that the AI coach is going to suggest certain drills so you can see here if I switch back to the scores my lowest score was what I kind of knew impact so if we click on impact we can see that the where I’m trying to achieve is about 70% of my weight on my lead foot so we’re not quite there yet but we can work on it so let’s go back real quick and just look at that drill go back you click watch the drill and here it’s actually it’s suggesting a setup drill for me so clicking into that not only do you have the actual drill being walk through on the screen but and that shows you what kind of how to get in the right positions but at any time at the top you can click the heat map you get a full screen and it kind of pauses the drill and allows you to now feel what that feels like so I’m watching the drill I want to see what it feels like I go into the heat map I can feel okay so right about here my balance is about 5545 this is where it’s saying they want me it setup so I can go in and I can rehearse that and work through that setup drill once I’ve done a couple reps I go in I hit a couple more balls and I see if that’s translated and if my scores are improved all right so obviously there’s a lot here you can kind of see why I’ve been so addicted to it the last couple of days because that immediate feedback that you’re getting is something that makes you want to just kind of keep practicing and working because you get to see immediately whether what you’re working on is getting any better for me as I said it’s been getting my weight shift to the lead side and I’m just liking being able to see that score improving and it validates whether or not the drills I’m doing are actually working but speaking of that another really cool thing that’s built in is you have this Academy so if your coach uses this system there’s actually a way that you can through the app send your data directly to your coach and that includes the videos of your swing that are taken in the app as well as the data coming from the insoles and it’s a great way for a kind of accountability and to show and for your coach to provide feedback if you’re doing the right thing so great for working on it by yourself but also great for working with coaches the other thing that you’ve gotten here is this whole entire drills Library so not only the drills that are being suggested to you based on your individual swing faults but you’ve got a whole bunch of specific drills if you something you want to work on that’s outside of what the coach is suggesting you get to see it all right there so there’s quite a bit but the other thing I I mentioned this earlier I kind of teased it a bit I think it’s very tempting to go in and do those full swings and kind of see that force and pressure you’re applying in a full swing environment but I think where it’s actually sneaky good and I think a great use case for this is working on that short game so the way that I’ve been experimenting with this is first of course in putting uh one thing I love to do is just bring up that heat map and bring It Up full screen look at it and look at my balance live in real time through my cutting stroke just making sure that I’m not doing any type of excessive movement or swaying that might cause some inconsistencies in my putting and just staying as stable as possible it it’s so minute sometimes it’s hard to feel it but being able to see it it really exposes maybe even the smallest little inconsistencies and the same thing with chipping uh really working on the big thing for me has been working on getting that weight over to the lead side and keeping it there I find if I shift too much towards my back foot I end up with those dreaded chunk shots around the green so making much better and more consistent contact really comes from being able to have a visual and and see that so obviously there’s a lot here there’s a lot of reasons why this seems really really great but again got to answer that question of is it too good to be true and who’s this for and a lot of that boils down to the price so let’s talk about that real quick all right so price here’s where like a I said earlier it’s very relative and it depends on your use case and comparing it to some of the Alternatives that are out there because the reality is it’s not cheap this thing comes in at $599 and on top of that within the app uh to unlock certain things like certain Trace lines and additional drills you’re talking about an additional $599 per month like I said I was very impressed with the number of free things in the app so if you don’t want to commit to the extra subscription on top of paying nearly $600 well I think that’s definitely viable you can do that but here’s the thing this is why I say it’s so relative in reality what you’re getting in real time this this pressure and force technology and readings and the accuracy and the how quickly you saw that it happens and the real time and multiple applications in order to do that otherwise you would have to invest a lot more money as I mentioned earlier something like the swing Catalyst which is a fantastic piece of tech costs upwards of $20,000 and on top of that there are huge subscription fees associated with it so in a relative world this is only a fraction of that price but it’s still not objectively cheap so who is it for well if I had to say and looking at you know the wide range of golfers out there I would say that anyone one who’s really working on grinding on their game getting to that next level I’m talking about people who are playing in tournaments maybe looking to play college golf are playing D1 golf things like that then you’re someone who’s going to be wanting that information no doubt and it’s a heck of a lot less expensive than purchasing something like a swing Catalyst similarly for coaches out there you know um if you’re something that you want to use with your students uh even if you were and and the nice thing about these is the sizes cover a pretty wide range of shoe in each size so uh even with one set of insoles you could probably cover a lot of your students but even if you bought two two sizes to cover a wider range you’re still way way less expensive than investing in a something much more built into the floor like you’ve seen traditionally so I think for coaches it’s it’s kind of of something that could be very attractive I think for your your real you know Grinders out there who want to get better with their swing I think you too but for the general public my personal opinion is if I could see this thing fall into a price range even around $299 I think that would be the Wheelhouse I think at that point I put my full stamp of approval on it and I think it’s definitely one of the best training AIDS out there and people could run out and get it I think it’s a great value at that price at this price you know pushing $600 plus a subscription the unfortunate reality is this is where I say could it be too good to be true I think it’s going to push some people out of the market for it but hey like I said it’s a case by case it depends on your own personal budget it depends on your own personal game and what you’re working on like I said for me working on that weight shift to my lead side there’s just really not a lot of things out there that accurately measure it it’s not often so subtle it’s not picked up on camera super easily so for me I’m kind of loving it and I’m really kind of working it into my everyday use here uh but again it is a decision to be made so let me know your thoughts let me know what you think about the overall use the the price everything anyway I appreciate you guys watching this one was a lot of fun make sure you subscribe we’ll see you in the next video