SpikeScience vs Catapult

Choose Catapult if

• You manage a team and need training load monitoring
• You want GPS-based distance and speed tracking
• You need wearable sensor data for multiple athletes
• You have a team budget for sports science hardware

Choose SpikeScience if

• You want AI biomechanics analysis of your volleyball technique
• You need a personalized training program from your video
• You want injury risk screening from phone video
• You want to train on your own without a team
• You want position-specific analysis (setter, libero, hitter)
• You want a recruiting profile with verified movement metrics
• You do not want to buy or wear GPS hardware

AI Biomechanics Analysis

Catapult measures external load — how far and fast you ran, how many sprints, total distance. SpikeScience measures movement quality — your joint angles, kinematic sequence, arm swing mechanics, knee valgus at landing. Catapult tells you how much you trained. SpikeScience tells you what is mechanically wrong with your technique and how to fix it. The two answer fundamentally different questions about athletic performance.

Personalized Training Programs

Catapult provides load data that a coach interprets to adjust training. SpikeScience generates the training program for you. After your biomechanics analysis, SpikeScience creates a position-specific program targeting your identified weaknesses — if your analysis shows poor hip-shoulder separation, your program includes the specific hip mobility and rotational power exercises to fix it. Catapult does not generate training programs or exercise prescriptions.

Injury Risk Screening

Catapult tracks acute-to-chronic workload ratios to flag overtraining risk. SpikeScience screens your video for the four high-risk landing patterns that predict ACL injuries — knee valgus, stiff-knee landing, lateral trunk lean, and asymmetric contact. Catapult flags when you have trained too much. SpikeScience identifies the specific movement patterns that put your knees at risk before an injury happens, and prescribes neuromuscular training to correct them.

No Hardware Required

Catapult requires GPS wearable devices worn by every athlete during every session — a significant hardware investment typically only available to professional and collegiate programs. SpikeScience works with any smartphone. Record a 10-second clip of your approach, serve, or pass and get a full biomechanics report. No sensors, no wearables, no team budget required.