With no Nationals this year, USMS said they will have virtual events. I'm not sure how this will work. VR headsets are expensive enough, how much is a VR tech suit? Do they have them at Swimoutlet?
The saga continues. My wife swam the 3 backstrokes. She is a USMS member. She opened a swim.com app. She linked swim.com with My USMS. Swim.com continues to say, basically,you must be a member of USMS to enter, join USMS to continue. Is her only choice to join USMS twice? I will say that I asked a support question of swim.com earlier and they answered promptly. I think swim.com could probably be a very useful app for an open water swimmer. I just don't see how it is an improvement for a pool swimmer over a pace clock, printed out workout, and the old Go the Distance. It really seems an unnecessary complication for this meet as all that was really need was a stopwatch and an entry form.
As a bigger issue, I know that competition pool swimmers are not most of the body of USMS, but we are the heart and generally the most involved group. I put up with FINA, even though the are incredible corrupt, because they are the only game in town, but I have always been,heretofore, proud of USMS. This covid situation is awful, having a few bright spots help make things more bearable. Having support of a like minded community helps. An active forum, like we had not that long ago, could be that.
The saga continues. My wife swam the 3 backstrokes. She is a USMS member. She opened a swim.com app. She linked swim.com with My USMS. Swim.com continues to say, basically,you must be a member of USMS to enter, join USMS to continue. Is her only choice to join USMS twice? I will say that I asked a support question of swim.com earlier and they answered promptly. I think swim.com could probably be a very useful app for an open water swimmer. I just don't see how it is an improvement for a pool swimmer over a pace clock, printed out workout, and the old Go the Distance. It really seems an unnecessary complication for this meet as all that was really need was a stopwatch and an entry form.
As a bigger issue, I know that competition pool swimmers are not most of the body of USMS, but we are the heart and generally the most involved group. I put up with FINA, even though the are incredible corrupt, because they are the only game in town, but I have always been,heretofore, proud of USMS. This covid situation is awful, having a few bright spots help make things more bearable. Having support of a like minded community helps. An active forum, like we had not that long ago, could be that.
