Does anyone have experience with this watch? I would like to have a watch that calculates split times, armstrokes, etc. Preferably automatically, but I suppose you have to press the buttons yourself every second turn.
As I live in Sweden, I haven't been able to find a site that ships to Europe. Anyone know where I can buy it in Europe?
Are there possibly any better watches or aids?
Thanks.
I used to own the first version of this watch. It's fun to use, once you get the hang of it.
You can use it for all the strokes except ***. The watch has sensors that detect when the hand has left the water and when it re-enters. Since the hands never really leave the water in breaststroke, it doesn't register a change.
You tell the watch how far you're swimming. You press something like the START button on the watch and it counted down from five seconds. Usually, I would push off the wall in those five seconds so that when it reached zero my first arm recovery would be timed to that moment.
Swim normally. The watch does the rest.
At the end of the length press STOP and the watch calculates stroke count, stroke rate and distance per stroke (thus the need to tell it how far you swam).
It's a good tool. Luckily, I got the watch when I was sponsored by Speedo, because it's very expensive. Like $500. But that was about eight years ago.
I used to own the first version of this watch. It's fun to use, once you get the hang of it.
You can use it for all the strokes except ***. The watch has sensors that detect when the hand has left the water and when it re-enters. Since the hands never really leave the water in breaststroke, it doesn't register a change.
You tell the watch how far you're swimming. You press something like the START button on the watch and it counted down from five seconds. Usually, I would push off the wall in those five seconds so that when it reached zero my first arm recovery would be timed to that moment.
Swim normally. The watch does the rest.
At the end of the length press STOP and the watch calculates stroke count, stroke rate and distance per stroke (thus the need to tell it how far you swam).
It's a good tool. Luckily, I got the watch when I was sponsored by Speedo, because it's very expensive. Like $500. But that was about eight years ago.
