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.
www.youtube.com/watch
Thank you qbrian, steve, rtodd, pwolf66, sharpsburger, and fritznh.
The clips of Popov and Thorpe are excellent!
Summer league and winter AAU age group untill 14 or 15 years old or so I can't remember exactly when. No high school or college swimming. My stroke dates to 1962 when I learned to swim. Hence the battle with rotation.
Quote from qbrain:
"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."
Your advise was well taken, they helped as much (time) as they could spare
then recommend I sign up with another former IUer Gary Hall Sr. at the Race Club. Doc Hall said to forget about hip and body driven free and to focus on shoulder driven rotation. It turns out that my rotation was coming from my arms pushing on the water to rotate my core -- I was doing it backwards!
You can see in the last clip (77) the difference it makes.
Unfortunately, swimcation is over and I am back in frozen Indiana. It will probably be some time before there is an opportunity to take more video.
The amount of energy wasted using arm driven rotation was considerable since it now seems much much easier to swim. Now I need to "grind it in"
(c) Ande
The staggering differences between self perception and reality are the reason feed back from you all is so very valuable. Happy New Year all!
Thank you qbrian, steve, rtodd, pwolf66, sharpsburger, and fritznh.
The clips of Popov and Thorpe are excellent!
Summer league and winter AAU age group untill 14 or 15 years old or so I can't remember exactly when. No high school or college swimming. My stroke dates to 1962 when I learned to swim. Hence the battle with rotation.
Quote from qbrain:
"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."
Your advise was well taken, they helped as much (time) as they could spare
then recommend I sign up with another former IUer Gary Hall Sr. at the Race Club. Doc Hall said to forget about hip and body driven free and to focus on shoulder driven rotation. It turns out that my rotation was coming from my arms pushing on the water to rotate my core -- I was doing it backwards!
You can see in the last clip (77) the difference it makes.
Unfortunately, swimcation is over and I am back in frozen Indiana. It will probably be some time before there is an opportunity to take more video.
The amount of energy wasted using arm driven rotation was considerable since it now seems much much easier to swim. Now I need to "grind it in"
(c) Ande
The staggering differences between self perception and reality are the reason feed back from you all is so very valuable. Happy New Year all!
