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 Swimming Stroke Analysis

SwiMetrics objectively and immediately show and help educate athletes how they can move more efficiently and quickly through the water.  SwiMetrics is used as a competitive advantage by the Olympic medalists, Olympic and world championship swimmers, Olympic triathletes, water polo players, masters swimmers, age-group swimmers and competitive triathletes.

SwiMetrics is quick, real-time, in-the-water tests to measure, record and analyze the efficiency, velocity, force and acceleration of athletes in the water.  Imagine a portable wind tunnel or flume with instant feedback. All it takes is a few minutes and can be used at any location


As one example of its concrete benefits, Dara Torres was the talk of the swimming world in 2008.

Could a four-time Olympian, a 41-year-old mother and former world record holder make a comeback? Could she win a medal? Dara was tested at the US Olympic Training Center. She did a series of 20-meter swims to measure her swimming velocity that enabled her to discover her swimming inefficiencies.

After the most decorated and lengthy career as a national champion, Olympic medalist and NCAA champion, Dara discovered small flaws in her swimming technique that were identified, including a slight reduction in speed when she breathed to the left side versus when she breathed to the right.

As a result and as a commitment to her interests in making herself faster and gaining precise speed that she would later use at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Dara started breathing only to the right despite the fact that she had been a bilateral breather all her life. The outcome is well-known: Dara did her personal bests at the age of 41, made the Olympic team and won three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to become one the world’s most heralded athletes of 2008.

The SwiMetrics equipment includes a portable machine that is placed at the edge of a pool with proprietary software.

It measures and records the velocity (speed in meters per second) with a fishing line tied to the athlete’s waist. The athlete can be tested doing regular swimming (of any stroke), pushing off the wall doing turns, eggbeater for water polo (i.e., tests in the vertical or lateral direction), shooting the ball for water polo, sighting for open water swimming, navigating in the open water by testing the relative velocity of the left arm vs. the right arm, dribbling with a water polo ball or triathlon wetsuit comparison tests.

The test results are then superimposed on an underwater video for an easy-to-understand teaching tool.

7-time Olympic medalist Jason Lezak, who is a real student of generating power, increasing efficiency in the water and decreasing resistance in his stroke, has used the technology to his benefit. "...the [SwiMetrics] underwater video analysis with the velocity curve showed me how I could improve my stroke through the weaker points where my velocity significantly dropped."

Glenn Gruber, a U.S. Masters Swimming national champion who is a passionate workout swimmer, was tested in a variety of speeds. He commented, "The results of the SwiMetrics test offered me many corrections to my stroke. Some corrections will take more time than others to incorporate into a new pattern. But after 30 years of masters swimming competition, this is the first time any coach had seen and corrected something so fundamental and important as head position."

Olympian Chloe Sutton, the multi-time national champion in both the pool and open water, has been tested numerous times.

Each time, she focuses on something new and incrementally refines her stroke, "Being able to adjust my stroke based on scientific fact was just what I needed. It is amazing that a slight change in position could keep my velocity from lagging. With the video and the science working together it was so obvious what I needed to do - right on the monitor."

Ahelee Sue Osborn, a multi-time national masters champion and English Channel swimmer from Irvine's NOVA Masters Swimming, was tested. In her SwiMetrics video below, when the white line goes up, she is accelerating (moving through the water faster). Conversely, when the white line goes down, she is decelerating - or literally slowing down in the water - something that often cannot be caught by the human eye even with an underwater camera.

If the white line reaches zero, the athlete has literally and figuratively come to a dead stop at that moment in time - which is quite common in breaststroke, butterfly and off the wall in breaststroke turns. The key is for the athlete and coach to understand why the swimmer is either accelerating or decelerating at different times in the stroke.

The vertical green line in the middle of the graph indicates Ahelee's position in the video. Her real-time velocity data at every point in the swimming cycle is represented by a "Velocity Curve" (the continuous white line shown below her in the video).

She was tested in a variety of 20-yard race-pace swims done at various speeds (e.g., race pace for a 200-meter freestyle and open water swimming pace) to capture her strengths and weaknesses in the different styles of swimming in her repertoire.

Based on this data and knowledge, coaches and athletes can do various drills in the water and on land to help them focus on their technique as they tweek their stroke based on an objective fundamental understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

The posting below show an analysis of dolphining by an open water swimmer and stroke analysis of an adult swimmer.  The same analysis is available to athletes of all ages, abilities and backgrounds from the pool swimming, open water swimming, triathlon and water polo worlds.

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Shelley Taylor-Smith
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7-time World Marathon Champion

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first major achievement was breaking the world four-mile record in 1983.  Then, she won the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim five times, first breaking the world record in 1995 and setting the current world record in 5 hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds. She also won the Australian Championships three times, and 7 consecutive world professional marathon swimming championships. [More...]

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Alex Meyer
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2010 World 25K Champion
Alex Meyer from Harvard University faced massive disappointment when he was disqualified at the last turn at the 2009 world championships.  Coming into the last turn at the 2010 world championships in Canada, Alex made sure to avoid d�j� vu as he went stroke-for-stroke with the 2-time world champion Valerio Cleri.  In a race for the ages that came down to two men giving it their all, Alex zigzagged his way to [More...]

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Christine Jennings
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Christine Jennings who has burst upon the highest echelon of the elite open water swimming world, won the extremely competitive RCP Tiburon Mile in a close race over Olympians Melissa Gorman and Chloe Sutton.The 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships culminated in an entertaining race - 10,000 meters of shoulder-to-shoulder swimming in the women's marathon in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California. Simply put, Christine Jennings is on her way to [More...]

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Emily Brunemann and Chip Peterson
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Chip Peterson:  At the 2005 World Championships, Chip won gold in the 10K event and a silver medal behind Germany's Thomas Lurz in the 5K event. Chip was jointly awarded the inaugural Open Water Swimmer of the Year  [More...]

Emily Brunemann: at Michigan... NCAA Champion in 1,650-yard Freestyle (2008) ... two-time USA Swimming National Team member who trains daily with Chip, both training hard with dreams of Olympic glory [More...]

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Penny Palfrey
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Penny Palfrey is one of swimming�s greatest aquatic adventurers. She has done numerous unprecedented swims in cold water as well as warm water, starting down two Great White Sharks along the way.  Prepare to be enthralled by her descriptions of her incredibly dangerous swims when she faced humungous ocean swells in Hawaii and sharks in the Pacific as well as her races around Manhattan Island.  Learn about how she trains and overcomes obstacles [More...]

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Trent Grimsey
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Trent Grimsey
is currently Australia's highest ranked male open water swimmer on the FINA pro circuit. Since making the switch from pool to the open water in 2008 after just missing out on Australia's 2008 Olympic Team in the 1500 freestyle, "Trento" has shown he can mix it with the best in the world, from 5K to 25K.

In his relatively short open water career there is not much Trent hasn't achieved. [More...]

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