Swim Watch - Butterfly vs. Freestyle

RE: Swim Watch - Butterfly vs. Freestyle

Former Member — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:00:23 GMT

I have a Garmin Swim watch. For me, it correctly detects the difference between fly and free. One of the speculative answers that I thought of is the difference in the kick, and the depth difference and/or propulsive force timing in the water it produces. I was very puzzled by the original question and found a reference to your question on a Garmin forum. One of the answers to the Garmin forum question was it is a known problem and an update would help with the problem. forums.garmin.com/showthread.php

RE: Swim Watch - Butterfly vs. Freestyle

Judester — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:15:32 GMT

This is in the "speculate" category, but I have to think it's programmed to detect the unique arm movement pattern associated with each stroke; but I myself am curious what the real answer is. It's definitely an arm movement that is unique to butterfly. All of my fly strokes are detected as free and all of my free strokes are correctly detected as free so whatever it is, it has to be something I'm not doing that the watch looks for in fly that distinguishes it from free.

RE: Swim Watch - Butterfly vs. Freestyle

orca1946 — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:06:29 GMT

Thanx for the update info.

RE: Swim Watch - Butterfly vs. Freestyle

GregJS — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:24:16 GMT

This is in the "speculate" category, but I have to think it's programmed to detect the unique arm movement pattern associated with each stroke; but I myself am curious what the real answer is.