You don’t need a tripod, a second person filming, or any expensive gear. A single iPhone is everything Track & Field AI needs to break down your technique.
Side-on view, landscape mode, full body in frame from the start of the approach through the finish. That’s it. Practice, meet, backyard, any conditions work.
Open the app, tap “analyze,” select your event (pole vault, shot put, 100m, etc.). The AI extracts up to 50 frames, with extra density around the critical moments.
You’ll see phase cards, approach, plant, takeoff, flight, landing. Each highlights the exact frame, tells you what the AI sees, why it matters, and a drill to fix it.
Most video tools take a frame every half-second and call it analysis. That’s fine for highlights, terrible for coaching. A pole vault plant lasts under 200 milliseconds. If you sample uniformly, you’ll miss the plant completely or catch it in a blurry frame where nothing is decipherable.
Track & Field AI uses event-specific extraction profiles. For pole vault, it samples at roughly 8 frames per second from the plant through the clearance, and 2 fps during the long approach. For sprint starts, it over-samples the first 15 meters. For throws, it packs frames around the release. The result: you’re always looking at a sharp, meaningful frame, not a blur.
Every phase card in your analysis follows the same three-part structure a good coach uses in real life. You don’t get a dense paragraph of jargon. You get clarity.
What I see: A plain-English observation about what’s happening in the frame. “Your plant leg is 14 degrees under vertical at takeoff.”
Why it matters: The biomechanical consequence. “This reduces the vertical impulse and shortens your rise on the pole.”
How to fix it: A specific drill or cue. “Try the short-run plant drill with a focus on driving the top hand straight up at takeoff.”
Every card also flags priority: critical, important, or minor. So you know what to actually work on tomorrow.
Every analysis comes with an AI chat assistant that knows your event and your past analyses. Ask anything, “what drill fixes a late trail leg?”, “is my approach too fast?”, “show me examples of a proper plant.” It answers like a coach, not a Wikipedia article.
