Hello, Here is a short clip of me swimming. It was shot using a Pentax Optio M10 camera. The 10M mov file was then uploaded to Youtube. The quality doesn't seem to be very good.
So, any advice on whatever you can tell about the swim and/or advice on how to upload/shoot better videos is much appreciated and thanked in advance.
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Here in sunny Naples FL the pool yesterday turned out to be a Councilman swimmer reunion. There was a 3 generation trio of women where the grandmother swam for Doc before NCAA sports, she didn't say when but she's 65, her daugher who swam for IU and her daughter who went to Councilman camps. Two guys from Chicago who swam for Doc sometime back when.
Uh... did you ask them to help you with your stroke? If you would have asked them to show you EVF, you would have gotten a better visual than we can provide. I bet at least one of them would have been proud to show off their knowledge.
EVF is something you can work out out of the water, with the benefit of being able to stop, use mirrors, look around, etc.
From a standing position, stand in superman (not full speed with fist, cruising speed with hands flat). Your hands are about shoulder width apart. Now drop one arm, so you can focus on just the other arm. Lock your wrist, there should never be any bend in the wrist (at least for this exercise). Now, the goal is to go from one arm superman to your palm facing the floor while keeping your hand as high off the floor as possible. That path with be the same path your hand takes in the water.
For me, from superman, the hand travels down in an arch to palm down position at about 6'4" from the ground (I am 6'2"). My upper arm is in line with my head, and my forearm and hand are 90 degrees to my body. If superman is 12 o'clock, my elbow moves to 1 o'clock to allow me to keep my hand as high as possible.
Once you are happy you are doing the right thing, you can do both hands at the same time. Then you can bend over and do them with stretch cords SLOWLY. The idea isn't really to build strength, but to become comfortable with the path your hand needs to take from superman to EVF catch position. Light stretch cords work the best because you are just looking for enough resistance so you have something to pull against.
Once you figure it out and transfer it in the water, you will be able to tell a difference. One thing you will notice pretty quick is that you are using some new muscles ;)
Here in sunny Naples FL the pool yesterday turned out to be a Councilman swimmer reunion. There was a 3 generation trio of women where the grandmother swam for Doc before NCAA sports, she didn't say when but she's 65, her daugher who swam for IU and her daughter who went to Councilman camps. Two guys from Chicago who swam for Doc sometime back when.
Uh... did you ask them to help you with your stroke? If you would have asked them to show you EVF, you would have gotten a better visual than we can provide. I bet at least one of them would have been proud to show off their knowledge.
EVF is something you can work out out of the water, with the benefit of being able to stop, use mirrors, look around, etc.
From a standing position, stand in superman (not full speed with fist, cruising speed with hands flat). Your hands are about shoulder width apart. Now drop one arm, so you can focus on just the other arm. Lock your wrist, there should never be any bend in the wrist (at least for this exercise). Now, the goal is to go from one arm superman to your palm facing the floor while keeping your hand as high off the floor as possible. That path with be the same path your hand takes in the water.
For me, from superman, the hand travels down in an arch to palm down position at about 6'4" from the ground (I am 6'2"). My upper arm is in line with my head, and my forearm and hand are 90 degrees to my body. If superman is 12 o'clock, my elbow moves to 1 o'clock to allow me to keep my hand as high as possible.
Once you are happy you are doing the right thing, you can do both hands at the same time. Then you can bend over and do them with stretch cords SLOWLY. The idea isn't really to build strength, but to become comfortable with the path your hand needs to take from superman to EVF catch position. Light stretch cords work the best because you are just looking for enough resistance so you have something to pull against.
Once you figure it out and transfer it in the water, you will be able to tell a difference. One thing you will notice pretty quick is that you are using some new muscles ;)
