A video of my freestyle and backstroke
I have a waterproof Panasonic camera. I could ask someone to take video of me underwater swimming, but I'm in Vegas, and I don't have a stick mount for the camera to shoot underwater motion. For now, I can only deck mount it & see myself swimming from the end of the lane. The high deck at Desert Breeze pool was great for shooting and the start block also supported the camera. I mounted it on the start block at Aquatic Springs pool, but with the large glass wall panels, severe back lighting made anything in the pool appear very dark. I do wish I'd brought a tripod for placement at the other end of the pool where backlighting wasn't present. What did I see? On the camera's little 2" screen, I saw myself swimming. On a 24" iMac screen, I saw a very splashy hand entry while swimming freestyle. After exiting the water, my hands made a roundhouse path to the front and plunged into the water in front of my shoulder, throwing an arc of water to the oth...