In the past, I've seen underwater cameras, the kind that coaches often use, or that would be handy for a coach.
For the life of me, I must not be doing my 'googling' right, I'm coming up empty handed.
Hints anyone?
Links? Camera/housing names? Other keyword hints?
Any specific recommendations, something you tried and like?
Thank You :)
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"So how do I setup this stuff to record?", you might ask. To give you some bearings, I practice each morning at a smallish YMCA. At 6 am, we frequently have as many as 3 swimmers in 6 lanes. If you just barge in and setup your camera equipment you are likely to get somebody upset.
So, first off, you need an accomplice. My accomplice is the lifeguard, thankfully. She allows me to setup the camera, on the wall of lane 6. I set the camera at the middle of the pool pointing straight out about 3 feet underwater. This will have lane 5 in a pretty good frame. The awkward thing here is that you will likely be the one swimming in lane 5 but you will have your equipment in lane 6. So this is where the bribery starts.
Although the camera is unobtrusive, you get a lot of questions. "Is that thing going to electricute me?" "Does it measure the chlorine levels, cause my lungs are killing me?" "Does it make my butt look big?" To avoid some of these awkward questions, I usually offer to record the strokes of each person in lane 6. That is usually enough to buy their silence.
Then I set the camera recording and I just swim a normal workout, mindful, of course, about how much recording time my camera has (1 hour).
When I am done with workout, perhaps 30 minutes after the tape is full, I collect my setup and leave. Usually with 6 email addresses and a promise to send their video clips.
"So how do I setup this stuff to record?", you might ask. To give you some bearings, I practice each morning at a smallish YMCA. At 6 am, we frequently have as many as 3 swimmers in 6 lanes. If you just barge in and setup your camera equipment you are likely to get somebody upset.
So, first off, you need an accomplice. My accomplice is the lifeguard, thankfully. She allows me to setup the camera, on the wall of lane 6. I set the camera at the middle of the pool pointing straight out about 3 feet underwater. This will have lane 5 in a pretty good frame. The awkward thing here is that you will likely be the one swimming in lane 5 but you will have your equipment in lane 6. So this is where the bribery starts.
Although the camera is unobtrusive, you get a lot of questions. "Is that thing going to electricute me?" "Does it measure the chlorine levels, cause my lungs are killing me?" "Does it make my butt look big?" To avoid some of these awkward questions, I usually offer to record the strokes of each person in lane 6. That is usually enough to buy their silence.
Then I set the camera recording and I just swim a normal workout, mindful, of course, about how much recording time my camera has (1 hour).
When I am done with workout, perhaps 30 minutes after the tape is full, I collect my setup and leave. Usually with 6 email addresses and a promise to send their video clips.
