My training partner and I stuck my water proof camera on a mini tripod and video taped 200 IM's head-on; that was the start of our stroke analysis adventures which has more or less directed what drills we focus on, and to a certain degree how we train.
But, I'm curious how many other folks to this, and if they've seen real results in the form of faster swims or less injury.
I do this with my swimmers but as the other folks said, not as much as I should. I don't pan, but hold the camera level and track with the swimmer so we get multiple strokes all int eh same frame from the same angle.
It works in different ways for different people. For your typical adult onset swimmer, it is at most half the battle. The person sees the issue but that is actually the easy part, fixing it is where the skill of the coach comes in.
Better swimmers on the other hand, all you need to do is show them and they can usually fix it once they actually see what is going on. Not always of course, but that is generally what I see.
Unfortunately lots of triathletes and other adult onset swimmers are impressed with the video and someone pointing out what is wrong. So they pay out one or two hundred bucks to see what they are doing wrong but they don't get any correction or the correction they get is woefully inadequate and they are right where they started but with less money in their pocket.
I do this with my swimmers but as the other folks said, not as much as I should. I don't pan, but hold the camera level and track with the swimmer so we get multiple strokes all int eh same frame from the same angle.
It works in different ways for different people. For your typical adult onset swimmer, it is at most half the battle. The person sees the issue but that is actually the easy part, fixing it is where the skill of the coach comes in.
Better swimmers on the other hand, all you need to do is show them and they can usually fix it once they actually see what is going on. Not always of course, but that is generally what I see.
Unfortunately lots of triathletes and other adult onset swimmers are impressed with the video and someone pointing out what is wrong. So they pay out one or two hundred bucks to see what they are doing wrong but they don't get any correction or the correction they get is woefully inadequate and they are right where they started but with less money in their pocket.
