Kinovea – Free Bar Path Tracking App

Here is a useful tool: Kinovea, “a free and open source solution for video analysis.”

Check out the features. Especially how to track objects or body joints.

Comes in very handy if you want to analyse the bar path in your Olympic lifts.

To trace a bar path, import your video and right click in the video preview, where you want the path to be traced and choose trace path.

Update: Similar Apps are Platform Helper Android App, Bar Sense fro Android, Iron Path for iOS.

Here is how it looks in action on Matthias Steiner’s 258kg Clean & Jerk