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Well, I finally have a video of me swimming, unfortunately for me, its a video of me losing...but...maybe you all can tell me a thing or two about my swimming.
I am in lane three in the video--with a black cap.
Sorry for the quality and distance of the video it was my mom's first time haha, you can hear her yelling at me too.
Thanks!
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Had a meet yesterday (Saturday 1/19/08) against St. Michaels college. They're a small team--we won very easily. I swam the fly in the 200 medley relay (see link above--we're in lane 3 I believe--whichever lane is winning). I split a 29. on it, which wasn't great but I was trying to hold off because I was in the 1000 right afterwards. They won't let my upload the 1000 video because its too big I guess? I'm trying it again--because while the time wasn't anything spectacular I think it shows my stroke pretty good and I did work my turns on that event and it felt much better than my 200and 500 from the week earlier. It was my first time swimming the 1000ever, and I went a 11:28.86 with no competition really. I also swam the 200free relay lead off--but I was on the B relay for whatever reason, went a 27.2...not very good but, eh.
Had another meet today. (Sunday 1/20/08) against Bentley College. They're much better than us, and pretty much killed us. I got 2nd in the 200freestyle in a 2:05 something and 2nd in the 500 in a 5:34. I also swam the 100 freestyle which I got either 3rd or 4th in, I was very upset about that swim because I did a 59.11, which is over a 2second increase from the times I should be doing. Oh well, we were dead today--no one swam very well from our team...we're beat. I might upload those videos later as well, its a crappy spectator area so my mom who was taping was pretty far away from the pool today.
That was a great 50 fly. Very smooth.
hey-thanks! I was actually surprised when I saw the video that it did look that smooth--we had had practice that morning, then warm up, then they did diving before the meet started. So when I dove in and took my first stroke I was like: "oh man, this hurts!" I had gotten very tight during that 30-40minute break for diving. I'm just glad it looked good and strong considering.
Hey! How do I split the video? I'm brand new to youtube--i got my videocamera for christmas:-)
Split it into two, youtube videos are limited to 10min. Great fly!
I don't think you can do it on youtube but probably whatever software you are using to load it from the camera to your computer can split it for you. Windows Movie Maker, which comes free with Windows can split a video for you, just pause it in the preview window where you want to split and use the button to the lower right under the video preview, the one next to the "Take a Picture" button.
For maximum simplicity, just use whatever method you currently use to save video to your computer to save the first half of the race and then again to save the second half. I hope that makes sense!
Thank you for posting the videos. The fly is a dream.:agree:
Regards,
VB
Thank you:wave:! Now I just wish he would let me swim the 100fly once in a while, since he thinks I might be swimming it at championships and have only swam it in competition once this entire season. Gotta love that.
Thank you:wave:! Now I just wish he would let me swim the 100fly once in a while, since he thinks I might be swimming it at championships and have only swam it in competition once this entire season. Gotta love that.
Ahh, don't worry about it... you've swum it enough, including in practice, to know what you're doing. I swam the 200 fly once last season before zones (and only 2 or 3 times EVER before that), and though my splits were not the kind you'd like to see (1:00.8, 1:10.4), the end time was a pretty big time drop.
Well, I actually really don't do much fly at all in practice--because he never puts me in anything but freestyle--swimming that medley relay was only the 2nd time all season I've swam butterfly at a meet. I suppose if he decides to put me in the 100fly at championships I oughta start practicing it a bit more. I just would like to swim it in a meet beforehand for the seed times. At our championship meet having a fast seed time is such a huge deal for staying out of wall lanes, and getting in a heat thats gonna push you.
but we'll see
