This video is of my favorite stroke, the backstroke, In these 4 videos the lanes go 1-6 from left to right from the camera's view and in this one I am in lane 1 but this is probably obvious considering how it starts with just me in it, I only put the lane line info for the other three vid's.
I did well in this race, 1st, but jammed my finger twice into the lane line so got a 1:03 in stead of my best 1:01. Your not supposed to ride so close to the lane line unless there is a person in the next lane that you can drag off of but I was not really thinkin during this race. I still got first though haha.
This next video is of the 1st bit of my medly relay (we only got the backstroke part on video but we won by the way). The Medly relay goes back, butter, breast, then freestyle. I'm in lane 4, or the third closest to the camera then in five there is the other PG relay, then in 6 the lame spanish fork relay which lost to both the A and the B PG relay (yeah!!!).
This race was the 100 Yard Breastroke which is sort of a filler because I'm not too good at it. I'm in lane 6 and a fast kid on our team for breastroke is in lane 4. I still got second but mainly just because I can get off the walls fast and have a good start, so I catch up a bit a each wall but lose ground in the middle. Plus if you look closely I was still a bit tired from the backstroke that was a little bit earlier because I held out my glide much longer than most to save energy.
This final one is the 50 yard butterfly which is not a real race in most swimming places but since butterfly is the most tiring race they figured they'd give us a break and cut the usual 100 yard butterfly in half. I came in a very close second in this race, I was in lane 3 and another PG kid was in lane 1 (he usually beats me but this race was the first individual one of the day so i still had energy and i was only a teency bit ahead). Once again it looked good at the start because my dives are decent but lost ground in the stroke. Lane two was sadly a Spanish Forkian, oh well we'll beat em' next time.
The footage may not be as good as they have in the Olympic trials (going on right now!!! watch it) but considering it was all taken by a picture camera it's finaminal, GO MOM!!
Really though, go watch the swimming trials or check out the online already done stuff at http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html and search by swimming, it's all amazing.
2 comments:
You're AWESOME Scott - seriously, you look great and I had to laugh when you talked about a filler stroke that you're not too good at... but came in second place. I'm showing the great footage to Michael tomorrow so I'll probably post another comment from him.
More commentary from Michael:
"Uncle Scott is a good swimmer - he's like a fish! I want to do that too. Running, running, and jumping. All by myself. I want to see another Uncle Scott swim. When he was little and tiny, and he couldn't swim. I want to see that..." Hah!
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