Blast Motion's Sensor Technology Combines With App for Baseball Swing Analysis

Blast Motion was named official sensor technology of the Amateur Athletic Union, said the company in a Wednesday announcement. Blast’s baseball swing metrics give coaches data to help with player assessment and development via the Blast Motion mobile app and a smartphone to capture video. The app analyzes, combines and syncs swing metrics with the video to deliver real-time analysis, said the company. The app automatically detects a player’s swing and clips the video to create a series of video highlights, it said. Major League Baseball last year named Blast Motion’s Baseball 360 its official bat sensor technology, a company spokesman emailed us.