For the last few weeks, I've been noticing what I see when I swim. I have noticed two things about my free stroke.
1. When I do free, I see almost my entire left arm stroke. I breath to my left. I see my hand enter the water, begin the catch, pull to my waist. Then it disappears. I see it then when I roll to breathe. I only see my right hand briefly as it enters into the water. I think this might be because I don't rotate my hips enogh as I pull my right hand & arm through the stroke. Then it reappears as it passes my waist and relaxes.
I swam some laps breathing to my right and i saw exactly the opposite.
2. As I begin to flip, I look down, seee my left big toe, then my eyes move to the right foot. As my feet pass over my head I look through the space between my right big toe & the next toe. I was really amazed at how much I can see outside of the pool through this gap. As I roll I close my eyes to blink. Then I look at the left side of the pool for the push off and pull out. I realized that I do this even when I am not thinking about it or consciously looking.
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Originally posted by Seagurl51
One of my favorite things to do is tilt my head all the way back on my backstroke and watch my hands hit the water.
~Kyra
One of my favorite things to do while swimming free, is looking underneath me to see if I can see my feet kicking.
Yeah I know, weird.
Crawl , the tiles on the pool bottom, backstroke the warning flags that your getting too close to the wall..which I look out for.. I wear a bubble crepe swim cap for hair care, they are made with little air filled bubbles..for streach, a soft cushioned feel and look in a way, but the cap won't help if I backstroke into the wall!
I have seen a couple of swimmers almost get knocked out backstroking with fins..not fun even to watch.Och! all pools should have the warning flags that let swimmers know there approching the wall.
I see the blue tile lane line and my arms during crawl and breaststroke, but during freestyle I can never tell if my hands are in the right position! Damn this myopia, anyway! :)
Adam
I breathe exclusively to the left (Bad habit, I know) so I too only see my left stroke in it's entirety. I like to see a sizable wake when I breathe because it usually means that I am swimming relatively fast. Sometimes after a turn I see myself pushing off towards the bottom of the pool but by then it's too late. I really enjoy backstroke starts with lots of underwater dolphin kicking because it's fun to watch the backstroke flags dissapear and sometimes, if I am really on my game, I can see the flags on the other end of the pool approaching. When I was taken off of full stroke swimming I stuck exclusively to this kicking drill. Oh yeah, sometimes I also see lost goggles and loose change at the bottom of the pool.
I see a lot when I swim now that I think of it. I watch my arms on my free recovery come over my head and then they disappear at my forehead. When I do fly I see my arms come around at about my ears and hit in front of me. One of my favorite things to do is tilt my head all the way back on my backstroke and watch my hands hit the water. I love watching the water and how it moves when different people do different things...bubbles are fun! And I like seeing the hott lifeguard....motivates me to swim better. ;)
~Kyra
Originally posted by DAP
Perhaps it has something to do with pupil dialation. When you where dark goggles, your pupils are more dialated. With clear goggles, the pupils are more constricted. The constricted pupils make smaller apertures which give a greater depth of field for focus. Photography people are familiar with this aperture effect in cameras. This explains why my mirrored Sengar Speedo's look cool but tend to blur my vision; especially in the 12ft. section of the pool.
The Barracuda Standard goggles had lenses in two different shapes. A flat lens used on anti fog goggles and a curved lens used on Premire and the basic Standard thats no longer made, I have had reports that the curved lens Barracuda act as a lens in a sense and swimmers with mypoia could see better with them under water and not well above water where as the flats lens had the opposite effect ok out of water bad under. The color had no effect so the shape of a goggle lens could act as a lens for certain swimmers..
Originally posted by laineybug
One of my favorite things to do while swimming free, is looking underneath me to see if I can see my feet kicking.
Yeah I know, weird.
Hey I do that too! Usually I can only see the tops of my feet going up and down. It's really fun to over tuck your chin during fly and watch your body wave.
~Kyra
Originally posted by Sparky
I see the blue tile lane line and my arms during crawl and breaststroke, but during freestyle I can never tell if my hands are in the right position! Damn this myopia, anyway! :)
I for the first time in years bought a pair of clear goggles. It straightened out my myopia just like my eye doctor told me it would. No need for those expensive prescription gogles!
Last night, I tried to see as much as possible while doing the fly. I breathe every stroke. I was amazed by the number of people watching me. there wer about 10 parents with their kidsin lessons. Most of them just stopped. It was great becasue I knew that they problably couldn't do what I was doing!
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I for the first time in years bought a pair of clear goggles. It straightened out my myopia just like my eye doctor told me it would. No need for those expensive prescription gogles!
Why would clear goggles (as opposed to any other color) do this? What wizardry is this?
-LBJ
