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I also have the freelap system. My club bought the same 4 cones, 2 start buttons and we have 6 chips. I practically have free use of it whenever I want and have been using it for around 3 months now. Everything Matias said is completely true as expected; its super easy to use and very very handy to just get immediate times straight to your phone. The same as Matias, there have been a couple issues with it; Sometimes the times quite literally just don't registered. Some sessions I will do 6x30m or something like that, and I will only actually get 3 or 4 of the times. Even if I put the phone right beside the cone. I've never tried restarting my phone so will try that in the future. I used it for a while without knowing that you need to add another .8 meters and ye my times just exploded. Went from a 4.08 30m with video time to 3.94 with the freelap so the 0.8m added onto the end is definitely necessary. Also, one of the start buttons has suddenly just stopped working. I thought at first that it was just out of batteries. I've put in 3 different new batteries and it still just won't turn on. Luckily I have 2 so it isn't a big problem but there are €150 each so this has been quite a let down. You also need to be careful to secure the chip properly, if your pants are to thin then it can come off easily. Once I was doing a 20m fly, the chip came off halfway through, hit my foot and I booted it like 30 metres down the track. Luckily they are very durable and it didn't break but just something to keep in mind. It can be pretty easy to forget about the chip as well. Its happened a couple times were I am training with other people and they forget to give the chip back and accidently go home with it. Despite all the issues it has still helped my training an absolute tonne. I now don't need to go home, review all my footage, go through each video getting the time stamps, put them into the calculator and get my time. Instead it takes 2 seconds for it to go straight through to the phone. Its also really handy because I can look back and see the exact times I was getting from sessions in the past. I can see how each one of my training sessions went with the click of a button so this is a huge plus. Thank you Matias for the honest review, much appreciated 🙏🙏
I can relate to what you are writing here. Some other things I think might help If you are not getting times is to make sure you keep distance from the cones when walking back to the start so to not "confuse" them, hehe. Also think you should leave your phone a little distance after the finish-cone for this reason. Thanks for the comment!
@@hovejoha just another tip, you’re actually meant to position your phone about 1 meter height instead of the ground for better reception. Mine has never failed to give a reading after I did this.
@@adambatty6023 Yup the app tells you this. You're supposed to position it 5-50m away and 1m in the air. I placed it only 5m meter away but was still close to the ground and never had a problem with reception
I predicted 4.53 ! Lol I'm a huge American Football fan. That's really good. If you focused on just training for a 40 I'm sure you would go even faster
@@keithbaker944 fully automatic timing. At the combine, the finish is measured by laser timing, but the start of the run is initiated manually when the timer observes the first movement of the runner. Therefore, the reaction time of the timer needs to be accounted for when normalizing manual times for comparison with fully automatic times. In track races of under 300m, .24 seconds is added to manual times for the purpose of normalization. This accounts for both delays at the start and the finish; however, in theory, the finish should be more precise, as the timer can anticipate the runner crossing the line. Therefore, we can assume that between .12 and .24 should be subtracted from Matthias’s time for the purpose of comparing him to NFL combine performances. A final caveat is that Matthias may be running on a faster track than that used at the combine, which could also affect his performance.
@@samvega290 I think your wrong about that. They dont leave any human error facttor at the combine. Otherwise the times could be off on everyone.. Million dollar decisions are based on these zimes often. They used to do it thar way but Im almost 100 percent dure there is a laser at the start and I know there is a pressure plate.
it depent on your using.......with jawku you can´t stop split times because you just have the arm wrist...........but with jawku you can stop your reaction time during the start (if you need this it´s very useful)
Thanks for the great review Mathias! I have been using freelap with my squad for about 2 years and I agree with all of your comments. The only thing I would add is that each fxchip appears to vary in its range. I have 4 chips and all 4 gave a different reading when I conducted several calibration tests with them. 2 chips were outside an acceptable margin of error (0.3 over 30m). When using those chips we had to adjust times and ensure each athlete used the same chip. Otherwise, a very useful training tool and a great way to motivate athletes.
Great video Mathias! It makes sense to be about this fast, considering you’re mainly a 200m runner. Cool to see some real sprinters giving the 40 a shot!
se eu quiser fazer um teste, e dividir com 3 pontos pra pegar as parciais de cada setor com 3 freelaps, ele me da precisão? Tipo 20m - 40m e 60m ele me mostra as duas parciais e o tempo final?
Hello from other side, why you're not posting blogs, we have been looking forward to watching ur training and progress. I hope you will keep sprinting.
I have a question. How did you set up the cones on the 40 yard testing. I know there's an 80cm buffer at the end. At the beginning did you start 1.5m back as well. Trying to get this accurate.
The Brower timing gates that you're setting up at :58, there is no way to set them up to where they don't take up as much space like the starting gate?
From watching this am I right in assuming the timer is started when your finger leaves the disc? As I understand it the 40 in the combine uses a different starting protocol, which if this is the case, would make a big difference. I think they are hand-started by someone reacting to the runner's first movement and only timed electronically at the finish. So even a fast reaction would take maybe .2 of a second, which obviously wouldn't be the case if they were using this system. So a Freelap 4.53 would be more like mid-4.3s using a human reacting to your first movement. Coleman's 4.11 obviously used the Combine protocol rather than Freelap, which would explain why his 40 time is .42 seconds faster than yours when the difference between your 60m PBs is about this, which obviously doesn't add up otherwise
This is absolutely correct. FYI the unofficial times are COMPLETELY hand timed. I interned for the NFL at 2 combines and its nothing more than a college kid off camera showing Deon And Rich a stop watch.
Hi man, love your content. Anyways, does the Bushnell Velocity Gun has accuracy similar to both the gates? Do the readings of 10m fly of gates match with the top speed reading of the radar gun? I think it has +-1 MPH error when protected on a straight line. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Man, that’s inaccurate. A 10.3 Coleman ran a 4.12. I ran a 11.3 100m and dropped a 4.5 40yard dash. You should be at 4.3 or 4.2 if you run around a 10.5. Dk metcalf! 4.3 40 yards and 100m 10.37.
yea I expected him to be faster too, andy isabella ran 4.39 in high school and had a 10.51 100m pb. But coleman was already running sub 10 when he ran that 4.12 in 2017.
It's not inaccurate. On my 100m PB I ran about 4.93s for the first 40m. Subtract my reaction and we have 4.78s. That 40m time interpolated to 40y (4.78/40*36.576) is 4.37s. That might be my potential. Also I do not know exactly how the NFL times their athletes, but I do believe the manual starting methods they use might give them a bit more favorable times.
@@hovejoha based on how they release the times laters, I'm pretty sure that at the NFL combine they use video technology to determine the start time. If you analyze the footage you see the time usually starts after a limb has crossed the starting line. If you were using the FreeLap touch pad here on that 4.53 run then your timing is going to be significantly more stringent than what is done at the combine. You could get similar results to the NFL combine, imo, by just using the two FreeLap cones. Place the first cone 0.8m ahead of the starting line and just run through it.
In the NFL combine, they are not doing electronic times -- not fully. The clock is starting when they pass the starting line plane. The NFL times seem faster than they are.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are pointing out. If you want to measure 20m acceleration, you sould have the finish cone 20.8m after where you start.
The one problem with these that I have seen is that when the batteries get low, they are very inaccurate. Some people on my highschool track team with 12+ second 100m PBs have supposedly run 4.6 for 40y
Can you use this device without using the button to start the timer? for example how do you record the 30m flys vs the 40 yard dash? or is it the same method
Great video! Thanks for explaining the position of the finish cone 80 cm after the finish line. Using the same logic, you would place the start cone 80 cm before the start line. They now have an e-starter cone with bulit-in speaker that says, "Set and Bang!" and measures your reaction time.
I don't get the logic of placing the start cone 80cm before..? Unless you mean placing the start button 80cm before, and then the finish cone ON the intended finish-line. I have the eStarter! Lovely tool, but it does not measure reaction time by it self, it does measure for example a 10m split with reaction time included.
It would be very interesting if you did a review of Jawku, it is something quite cheaper for amateur runners, although I am afraid its accuracy is not very good.
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