Pose Overlays & the Posture Numbers
Plenty of apps draw a skeleton on your swing. The skeleton is the easy part. What matters is turning those positions into something you can read and track — "my spine angle changed eight degrees from address to impact" beats "the lines moved." That's what MotionEdge's overlays and Posture Check numbers are for: not a prettier skeleton, but an actionable one.
The overlays on the video
When you watch a swing in the Video Player panel, several layers can be drawn on top of the frame. Each is color-coded so you can tell them apart:
| Overlay | Color | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Pose skeleton | Multi-colored by body region | The detected joints and limbs — your body, tracked frame by frame. |
| Setup overlays | Orange | Reference lines anchored to your address position. |
| Live overlays | Cyan | Positions tracked through the motion as you scrub. |
| Angle arcs | Cyan, with degree labels | Specific joint angles drawn as arcs with their measured value. |
| Hand-path trace | Yellow | The path your hands travel through the swing. |
| Club / ball tracking | — | The shaft, clubhead, and ball when detected. |
All of these track and scale with the video as you zoom and pan, so they stay locked to your body. They're also independent of any drawings you add yourself — see Drawing Tools for those.
Turning overlays on and off
Tap the gear (Pose Settings) in the Video Player header to choose which overlays you want to see. Turn the skeleton off for a clean look at the video, turn the hand-path trace on when you're studying the path, show angle arcs when you want measured numbers right on the frame. Set it up the way you like — your choices stick.
The pose data behind all of this is computed on your device by MotionEdge's pose-estimation engine. Nothing about your video has to leave your phone for the overlays to work, and they're available offline at the range.
The Posture Check numbers
Overlays show you where things are; the Posture Check panel turns key positions into numbers you can actually track over time. Swap a panel to Posture Check and you'll see body-position measurements such as:
- Spine tilt — how your spine angle holds, or changes, through the swing.
- Shoulder rotation / tilt — how your shoulders turn and tilt across positions.
- Hand-path grade — a simple 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 read on your hand path (down-the-line). Full detail in Hand Path Grading.
These are the same kinds of measurements a launch monitor can't see — they're about your body, not the ball. The point isn't a single number; it's the trend: is your spine angle steadier than it was last month? Are you holding your posture deeper into the downswing?
For the deeper story on what these measurements mean and why spine tilt and center-of-hips movement are the two big indicators of posture, see Swing Metrics — Posture Through the Swing.
How to actually use this
- Open a swing, turn on the skeleton and angle arcs in Pose Settings.
- Scrub to address, then to impact, and watch how your spine and shoulder angles change between them.
- Swap to Posture Check to read the numbers behind what you just saw.
- Compare against an earlier swing (Comparing Swings) or ask the AI Coach what the changes mean.
That loop — see it on the overlay, read it in the numbers, track it over time — is the whole idea. It's how a position you can barely feel becomes something you can measure and improve.
A note on the skeleton
The skeleton shows you approximate joint positions for any given frame. It's expected that for some frames there may be a little drift between the drawn skeleton and what you see on the video — that's a natural artifact of how the algorithm computes the motion. Generally the skeleton by itself isn't nearly as useful as using the setup overlays and angle overlays to understand body posture and motion.
Back to the full screen tour: Video Review — Reading Your Swing.