Hack Motion Wrist Sensor - DISCOUNT CODE: MARK5

Hack Motion is a wearable training wrist measuring sensor used by professional golfers and you can buy it as a home-user to learn how your wrists move in three dimensional space that help you understand how to control your club face.

When I talk about controlling club face, I mean in terms of the way you deliver the club into the ball at impact, where things like dynamic loft, angle of attack and low point control all combine to allow you to hit straighter, longer and more consistent golf shots.

What Mark Says:

Hack Motion offers insight into some of the most important aspects of the golf swing. Here's how it works...

Before we get stuck into the meat of the review, I will say that this is the ULTIMATE tool for home and professional use as far as understanding wrist angles are working and how they can impact your golf swing.

This product is going to blow your mind!

GETTING STARTED:

Out of the box, you get two little units and two straps that connect these to your lead hand and wrist, as well as the obligatory charging cable of course. You need to make sure it's charged up using the USB-C cable which comes in the box. The charge lasts a long time and to be honest with you I don’t even know exactly how long, because I’ve used it over a number of days while testing the device and the battery has lasted.

There is a FREE app which you need to download in order to use this device too.

That’s it. It’s pretty simple to get this going!

THE APP:

The Hack Motion App is totally FREE, and once you’ve downloaded it, it takes very little effort to set it up and calibrate the unit with your phone. There is loads of information in the “Getting Started” section which makes setting up your device as easy as possible.

You wear Hack Motion on your wrist, basically attached by velcro to the bottom of your arm to another sensor on the back of your hand, both of which are connected by a wire. You can wear the device on both your trail and lead wrists, so depending on what you are working on, you can really hone in on a particular aspect of your golf swing in an effort to improve. In my video review, I will be wearing it on my lead wrist for the purposes of testing the device.

LET’S GET PRACTICING:

So the basic premise of what Hack Motion does, is that it measures in live time how your wrists are moving which is just so valuable for so many of you in terms of understanding what you are doing in your golf swings. You just make some swings and with an audible tone, the device tells you it’s captured the data for each golf swing.

The information you get from this device is absolutely amazing. It’s pro-level information which, for example, I could base my teaching off, it’s that advanced.

Out of all of the golf measurement devices that I have tested, this is one of the best I’ve come across in terms of simplicity and the value of the data it captures.

THE DATA:

You can see from the shots I’m hitting in my video review that Hack Motion measures almost every wrist angle you can think of at the various points through the golf swing.

Wrist extension, wrist flexion, ulna and radial deviation, wrist rotation and the speed at which I’ve made those movements are all measured the Hack Motion has a number of different ways in which it can present the data to you, to help you understand it as easily as possible.

There is also a compare feature that allows you to look at data from a previous time period and see how much (or how little!) progress you are making on the changes you are working on.

You can also look at data from different tour pros in comparison with yours. Being able to base what you are working on against the very best golfers in the game is an invaluable tool.

MY FAVOURITE FEATURE:

So we’ve established that Hack Motion is capable of giving you an incredible wealth of data that can help you get better at golf, but perhaps its biggest strength is the Drills section of the app.

If you don’t understand the data, Hack Motion has thought of a way of making that easy for you.

With audible queues, Hack Motion (working within data-driven ranges of tolerance) will tell you during practice swings whether or not your are using / moving your wrists correctly throughout the golf swing.

This is so clever!

You can even go from utilising this feature during practice swings do using it when hitting fill shots which allows you to really see the impact the wrists can have on the end result.

COACHING VIDEOS:

Even with the super-clever features we talked about above, the data provided by Hack motion could be quite overwhelming, but this just highlights another of their strengths…

The Hack Motion app features loads of golf coaching videos that makes the data the app provides much clearer, as well as ways in which users can use it to get better at golf.

In short, if you are a serious golfer and committed to lowering your scores, Hack Motion and its app will give you all of the answers you need to figure out and implement the way in which you can get better at golf.

I would argue that wrist angles are the route of MOST golf swing issues, so being able to measure this yourself, analyse the data AND have Hack Motion prescribe fixes for various golf swing faults, is an invaluable tool.

IT HELPS WITH PUTTING TOO:

The power of Hack Motion isn’t just restricted the long game, even though that’s where I would argue it is at its most powerful. It can also help you hole more putts…

I have used this product on my practice putting green and I learned a few things about my putting stroke that I wasn’t aware of and has helped me become better at putting.

If you have noticed certain patterns in your putting (missing more on the right or left side of the hole for example) using the data available via Hack Motion putting is an invaluable and inarguable way of getting better at putting.