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Print this entrySwimming Question of the Week - April 22, 2009
Have you ever been filmed under water for your swimming and, if so, when you saw yourself, were you surprised by anything?
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Always. |
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Only when I was doing my qualification and all I can say is they must have superimposed my head on someone else's body because I swim much better than that! LOL :) |
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I wanna do it but how I get this underwater camera? |
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amazon.com Pentax and Olympus and Sanyo make ones that are good for personal use. |
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always... not only on underwater shots. |
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Billy / James; I Would like to buy an inexpensive one but, on say, amazon one finds many negative comments about these not so expensive unnderwater camcorders |
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One of my coaches stuck his mobile phone in one of those "jiffy bags" last year and video clips of each of us during a "hard" n x 200 set. The qualify was really poor, but the effect of seeing a lot of the reasons why I swim so slowly was priceless. |
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I was filmed underwater MANY years ago, but not with an underwater camera! The coach filmed with a regular camera through the observation window in the deep end that diving coaches use. The videotape is in a box somewhere - I'll have to dig it out and let you know. |
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I just got filmed 4 weeks ago for my Free. Wow, was that an education. Too many faults to list but it was a very enlightening look. Now, I plan on getting filmed at least once per month to help track my progress and correct faults. I plan on investing in an underwater camera in the near future. When I coach, I make sure to get in the water with my swimmers at least once a week because things that look OK from the surface are quite different from when viewed from under the surface. |
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Hey Paul. We're playing a bit with this Amazon thing... but look here for some good underwater cam options: |
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I was filmed underwater many years ago (at high school swim team practice), and it was a disturbing experience! I was sure they were wrong, and that was not me. I have always felt smooth and fluid in the water. I feel I move naturally and gracefully, which is so different than how I move on land. The video proved otherwise. It looked like I was thrashing around and trying to muscle my way through the water. I have 2 hopes now: 1- that I will not be caught on film again, and 2- if I am caught, that the years will have slowed and softened my technique so that I look smoother! (But I coach, and I do film other swimmers all the time with the Olympus 1030SW.) |
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