Every metre covered
The path of each player on the court, for the whole match or one rally at a time, with the ground covered in real metres.
Beachmates Vision Private betaOne phone behind the court.
One phone behind the court.
Your whole match, measured.
Upload the video. Get back every serve, reception, attack and block of your four players, measured in real metres, rally after rally.
Free while the beta lasts. Your videos and your analyses stay in your account.
The match, rally by rally
- 37,555
- courts on the Beachmates map
- 139
- countries covered
- 10
- sections of analysis on a match
- 8
- languages, from setup to scouting sheet
- 4
- players and one ball, followed frame by frame
- 0
- sensors, markers or wristbands
What a coach gets
Six answers on every match you upload
Read from the video itself, drawn on a court you take in at a glance, for the whole team or one player at a time.
Every serve, mapped and timed
One arrow per serve, from the server to where the ball was taken. Flight speed, serve type, aces and faults, player by player.
Every reception, and the run it forces
A dot where the ball was taken, an arrow for the run it forces on the setter. A good pass keeps that run short.
Every attack, and where it landed
From where the ball was hit to where the opponent answered, with kills, digs, balls blocked and the height of the jump.
Every block, and what it stopped
Each block joined to the attack it stopped, hitter to blocker, plus who blocked whom across the match.
Every moment worth replaying
Aces, kills, blocks, scoring runs and the longest rallies, each one a click from its clip, plus a written line for every rally.
How it works
Three steps, and none of them needs a film crew
- 1
Film it with a phone
One phone on a tripod behind the court, the whole court in frame, from the first serve to the last point. Nothing on the players, nothing on the net.
2Upload it and set it up in five minutes
Name the four players, draw the court once, say who serves first and where the sides change. That is the whole setup.
3Get the analysis back
You see an estimate while it runs and a match screen when it is done. Something looks wrong? Correct it and run it again with your corrections.
A phone and a tripod. That is the whole kit.
Set it behind the baseline, press record, and coach your match.
- Nothing on the players
- Nothing on the net
- No camera to install
- No one behind the lens
Three steps, and your next match comes back read.
Request beta accessAcross matches
One video tells you about a match. Ten tell you about a player.
Point a track at the right person once and every match that player appears in feeds the same sheet.
A player sheet that adds up
Serves, receptions, attacks, blocks and ground covered, added up across every match where you identified that player.
Your pairs, and the pairs you face
Every pair the analysis has seen, with what they win on reception, the ground they cover per match and the results you declared.
A scouting sheet on the pair you play next
Where they serve, where they attack, what each of the two does, on one page you can print and take to the court.
The trend over the last eight matches
One point per match, so you read the shape of a season and not just the last game.
The difference
The same match, on your own and with Vision
On your own
- You watch the match again to count what happened.
- You remember the last two points, the rest fades.
- You know he serves well. Not where, not how fast.
- Your notes stay inside one match.
With Beachmates Vision
- The match comes back already counted, rally by rally.
- Every rally is written down, with its clip one click away.
- Where he serves, at what speed, and what it produced.
- Every match you upload feeds the same player sheet.
The technology
How can a phone measure all that?
Machine vision. One video, four players, one ball, read frame by frame and turned into metres.
Machine vision, frame by frame
Trained on dozens of hours of beach volleyball motion capture, the models read a serve, a set or a block the way a coach does. From a single phone video, they follow the four players and the ball through every frame. No sensors, no wristbands, no markers.
Four corners, and everything is in metres
The four corners of the court give the geometry of the scene. From there the video stops being pixels: distances covered, the run forced on the setter and serve speeds all come out in real metres.
Every contact, named
Serve, reception, set, attack, block: the models recognise the action, the player and the moment, and write the whole match out rally by rally, contact by contact.
Your call, then a fresh run
Want something changed? Fix it in the annotation tool and re-run the analysis. The match is read again with your corrections in it.
Built on a database made for this
Every analysed match keeps every rally, every contact and every position in real metres, ready to be read and added up player by player and pair by pair. And Beachmates runs on a court directory of 37,555 courts in 139 countries.
Questions
Before you send us a match
What kind of video does it take?
One file per match (H.264 or HEVC, up to 2 GB), filmed from a single fixed viewpoint behind the court, in landscape, with the whole court in frame. An ordinary phone recording is enough.
Where do I put the phone?
Behind the baseline, on a tripod, high enough for the whole court to stay in frame from the first serve to the last point. One fixed viewpoint, landscape, and you never touch it again.
Does it need particular light?
Daylight or floodlights, both work. Keep the phone still and the whole court in frame: that is the whole requirement.
How long can the video be?
A full match. Once you launch it, the analysis usually takes fifteen to thirty minutes, and you see an estimate of the time left while it runs.
Do the players need to wear anything?
No. No markers, no sensors, no special bibs. Everything is read from the video.
What if it gets a player or an action wrong?
You change it. The annotation tool lets you fix the action, the player and the moment, then you run the match again with your corrections in it.
Can I analyse a match I did not film myself?
Yes, as long as you have the video file and it was filmed from one fixed viewpoint behind the court. You upload the file itself.
Is there anything to pay?
No. Beachmates Vision is free while the beta lasts.
In which languages?
Beachmates Vision is available in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Greek.
Who sees my matches?
You do. Your videos, your player book and your analyses live in your account. They are not published, they do not appear on any public page and they are never shown to another coach.
Does it work outside beach volley?
No. Beachmates Vision reads beach volley, two against two, and nothing else. That is why it can name a reception, a set and a block instead of just tracking bodies.
Bring us a match
Tell us who you coach and where. We open Vision to a small group of coaches at a time, and we answer every request.