Do any of you keep a swim video journal? If so, has it helped you work towards or achieve your goals in swimming? I am just beginning to record my swim events in the weeks leading up to meets so that I'm not just looking at or tracking times, but also, form and technique.
I've personally found videotaping makes weak and strong points in your swimming fairly obvious, whereas numeric or coaching feedback, while effective for other reasons, is not as strong at helping you visualize or correct form/technique. For those of you with experience of recording your swims, what do you recommend in terms of camera angles, how often you record or analyze your videos, how you store or organize your videos if you have a lot of them starting to accumulate, etc.
This thread is also a good place if anyone wants to talk about using video analysis (ex. training videos on YouTube, or videos of swimmers racing or performing proper technique) to improve your swims.
A chum and i have been experimenting recording our swimming on tablets from poolside
The best thing we have found is to use iPAD slow motion filming ( many tablets dont have this function you have to download to a computer to view in slo mo ).
This reveals an incredible amount of detail, and very interesting if you also record a very good swimmer in slo mo as a comparison. We found all sorts of things to correct
Thanks for the tips!
I cannot find a way to play back a video in slow-mo on my iPad. Is there a separate app that does it? I would like to bring it to master practice next week and try it.
I cannot find a way to play back a video in slow-mo on my iPad. Is there a separate app that does it? I would like to bring it to master practice next week and try it.
Open iMovie, click “+” under Projects, select New Project “Movie”, select video clip, select Create Movie, tap on video clip image on bottom, tap on “Speed”, bring slider all the way towards the turtle, click “Done”. Under Projects, select your newly created Movie for playback, go into full screen mode with lower left icon, hit play. Voila!
So I bought a $60 little GoPro knockoff, 170 degree camera angle, comes with all manner of mounts, a remote and a waterproof case. $20 64GB MicroSD card gives like 6 hours of 1080p which is overkill but whatevs. Stuck one of the helmet mounts on a leftover bathroom tile and that assembly sits nice and level anywhere on the deck or the bottom of the pool (besides the slope of course). Going to see if I can get any of the mounts to work on a broomstick or something and then I will even have a moving underwater camera.
Now all I need is someone to man the broomstick and a coach to review the video with me!
Going to see if I can get any of the mounts to work on a broomstick or something and then I will even have a moving underwater camera.
Now all I need is someone to man the broomstick and a coach to review the video with me!
Monopods work well. www.amazon.com/.../b
I use iPad mini with a water proof case, and Coach's eye or iMovie. You can even use an iPhone with a water proof case. I have a little stand that has spider like areas that you can bend and use underwater with a weight, or it has a magnet on the bottom if you have something it will stick too.
