digital swimming videos
Product Description
What Are Cool Digital Videos?
Cool Digital Videos are collections of small movies on Compact Disc which run on Macintosh and Windows computers. The films were professikonally produced by expert coaches using Mike O’Brien’s Trac Video system and then specially compressed to run better than any such videos in the world just for you. Films of stroke drills, ideal strokes, dryland exercises and much more are presented in a computer format that allows you to do things that are either difficult or impossible with videotape. Literally, making a stroke film into a digital film means assigning a number to every color, every movement, every sound.This allows incredible “calculations” enabling you to “loop, freeze and cut, copy, and then paste any of millions of “frames” to word processors or spreadsheets and much much more.
What’s The Use Of These Swim Video’s For Swimmers?
Good question!
Have you ever tried to find a good video of a flip turn, for example, on a six hour videotape? Not so easy is it? And then, when you find it, you probably want to see it more than once, especially if your are trying to learn from the scene. One time you might want to notice the hand position just before the turn is initiated. Then you might want to focus on the placement of the feet on the wall. Do the hands get into streamline before or after the feet touch the wall? Do you push off on your side or front? Are the hands over the ears on streamline or behind them? What happens is that you hit the “rewind” button on the VCR again and again. None of that is necessary on your computer. First, all you have to do is do a search for flip turns and presto! There they are! You see a “micon” or picture of the first frame of the video. Just click right on the picture and voila! the movie starts playing. Want to see it again? Just hit play. Want to see it a hundred times in a row? Just hit the “loop” button. It’s that easy. Want to see it frame by frame? No problem, because it’s digital. And C/D’s never wear out! Your great grand-children may be using the same digital video’s in 100 years!
What do I need to run Cool Digital Swim Video’s? If your computer has a C/D ROM drive, whether a windows machine or a Macintosh, chances are you’ve already got all you need. We supply a free movie player and a free cataloguer which even allows you to change the catalogue we give you. So you can re-arrange hundreds of movies in just the order you want. Even create folders just perfect for you! It’s all here. Any doubts? e-mail us at Penguin0@tropicalpenguin.com.
Who’s in the video’s A full range of swimmers, from experts to future experts.We found it useful from a mechanical perpsective to use age group as well as top senior swimmers. How were these video’s done?
We are proud to have a close association with our friend, expert and Olympian Mike O’Brien, who owns a company called Trac Video. Mike used his expertise and unique above and under-water equipment to help us capture the most important movements in each stroke, stroke drill and dryland exercise. His tracking system allows you to see what the swimmer is doing from the most accurate angles because the cameras move along with the swimmer!
What’s The Cost Of Cool Digital Video’s?
Amazingly, they are only $49.95 each. Start with Freestyle or Stroke Drills or Dryland Exercises, or starts and turns. Collect them one at a time or purchase in sets. (Vendors sometimes offer discounts. Please click here for a list of our vendors). Each C/D has over 100 video’s which will be useful for as long as you love the sport of swimming. Beginners and elite performers alike will gain from the experience of viewing these digitized swim video’s. Even non-swimmers will gain an instant appreciation for the intricate movements of our awesome sport.
How do I order Cool Digital Video’s?
Team Orders Are Encouraged. Why should a whole team have the C/D’s? Think about the challenge any coach has in training a team. If he has just 20 swimmers and one hour, he can give each swimmer just three minutes each. And most of the time the swimmer’s heads are in the water, where he or she can’t see or hear very well. It’s no wonder that stroke work is so essential to supplement practice time. Now, swimmers can study at home and be better prepared to learn. Any coach cn now ask a swimmer, for example to study any short film to answer such questions as, “where are your eyes looking when you are halfway through your flip turn?” The swimmers watches the prescribed ten second movie in a loop and comes to the next workout READY to learn or to demonstrate his knowldege that a great turn requires the swimer to see the front wall halfway through the flip. What an AWESOME MOTIVATOR these C/D’s are!
Which Cool Digital Video Collections Are Available? COOL DIGITAL FREESTYLE 443 video’s organized in 15 components of a healthy, fast freestyle. (i.e.:) Reduce drag, increase power, build a clean easy stroke, reach your personal goals. Whether you swim freestyle in open water, competitive age group meets and workouts, high school or YMCA, elite international competion, or you’re a masters or general fitness swimmer, you’ll love this C/D ROM. The better your understanding of the components of perfect freestyle, the better your chance to enjoy a rewarding injury-free swimming career.
COOL DIGITAL STROKE DRILLS 1 The first collection of the world’s most useful and creative and fun stroke drills. Each drill includes a verbal description to help you connect the drill with the benefit to your full stroke. Over 350 drills make this a real motivator as well as a technical “assistant coach”.
COOL DIGITAL STROKE DRILLS 2 The second collection of the world’s most creative, fun, and useful stroke drills is just more drills for each stroke. Over 350 more drills to put a smile on your face and to challenge your coordination while making swimming faster more exciting!
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES 1 Over 300 movies organized by joint and swimming movement. Learn, laugh, get fit fast! Even aspecial section on keeping shoulders healthy.
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES 2 300 more movies bring you strength, endurance and good looks! Great looks and faster times too? Gotta get it!
COOL DIGITAL BACKSTROKE Backstroke teaching progressions, exercises, error corrections, stroke drills, etc. New drills forthe second upsweep, dolphin drills and more. COOL DIGITAL BREASTSTROKE A complete Breakdown and buildup of all the motions you need, from outsweep to recovery, from body position and streamlining to rhythm and power. All the drills and skills which make swimming breaststroke fun and satisfying. A definite competitive advantage is yours as you learn and refine your strokes with Cool Digital Breaststroke.
COOL DIGITAL BUTTERFLY Butterfly teaching progressions, exercises, error corrections, stroke drills, and more. Above and “tracked “under water using special cameras. Over 40,000 color pictures you can print, movies youcan loop, etc.
BOB STEELE’s GAMES AND GIMMICKS I AND II Great coaching and training ideas and an awesome inside look at motivating and teaching by a mastercoach of NCAA and USS champions
In production and almost ready are COOL DIGITAL STARTS, TURNS, AND FINSHES Produced in association with Kerry MacKelvey of The Quick Getaway Group (link this), see, study, and then do starts, turns and finshes that will blow your competion out of the pool! COOL DIGITAL GAMES AND GIMMICKS FOR SWIMMERS WITH BOB STEELE Is swimming faster fun? These drills and games done by master and mentor and NCAA championship coach Bob Steele will put spark in your practices. Bob’s philosophy is that if it isn’t fun to watch, it isn’t fun to do. Watch his college men’s team and also an age group team go through the Games and Gimmicks and you too will have sparking, fun, and effective workouts that are anything but boring!
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES FOR ATHLETES AND MERE MORTALS Keep those shoulders balanced and healthy, improve your power, flexibility, strength and endurance in and out of the water with hundrds of exercises you can do safely and progressively. Pick and choose the exercises most effective for you to reach your goals. Once you see them, you’ll even come up with ideas of your own. Come to the Tropical Penguin Forum and let us know how you’re doing. Success stories are a part of life with Cool Dgital Exercises.
COOL DIGITAL STRETCHING FOR ATHLETES AND MERE MORTALS Flexible and healthy athletes are at a great advantage. This C/D shows you how in over 300 stretches which are meant to help you gain balance and speed. This fun, loopable format allows you to move as you watch and, of course, you can print any of 40,000 color frames. COOL DIGITAL SWIM LESSONS WITH GINNY FLAHIVE Let this expert at teaching babies to swim teach you the elements of success in all water activities in her unique, fun and kinesthetic way. This C/D is useful for even the most knowledgeable expert in competitive swimming as well as the novice swimmer, teacher, coach, or student of this great sport of swimming. Ginny teaches side breathing from the very beginning and shows love, passion and and technical expertise in each of hundreds of small searchable loopable and printable videos.
What’s The Use Of These Swim Video’s For Swimmers?
Good question!
Have you ever tried to find a good video of a flip turn, for example, on a six hour videotape? Not so easy is it? And then, when you find it, you probably want to see it more than once, especially if your are trying to learn from the scene. One time you might want to notice the hand position just before the turn is initiated. Then you might want to focus on the placement of the feet on the wall. Do the hands get into streamline before or after the feet touch the wall? Do you push off on your side or front? Are the hands over the ears on streamline or behind them? What happens is that you hit the “rewind” button on the VCR again and again. None of that is necessary on your computer. First, all you have to do is do a search for flip turns and presto! There they are! You see a “micon” or picture of the first frame of the video. Just click right on the picture and voila! the movie starts playing. Want to see it again? Just hit play. Want to see it a hundred times in a row? Just hit the “loop” button. It’s that easy. Want to see it frame by frame? No problem, because it’s digital. And C/D’s never wear out! Your great grand-children may be using the same digital video’s in 100 years!
What do I need to run Cool Digital Swim Video’s? If your computer has a C/D ROM drive, whether a windows machine or a Macintosh, chances are you’ve already got all you need. We supply a free movie player and a free cataloguer which even allows you to change the catalogue we give you. So you can re-arrange hundreds of movies in just the order you want. Even create folders just perfect for you! It’s all here. Any doubts? e-mail us at Penguin0@tropicalpenguin.com.
Who’s in the video’s A full range of swimmers, from experts to future experts.We found it useful from a mechanical perpsective to use age group as well as top senior swimmers. How were these video’s done?
We are proud to have a close association with our friend, expert and Olympian Mike O’Brien, who owns a company called Trac Video. Mike used his expertise and unique above and under-water equipment to help us capture the most important movements in each stroke, stroke drill and dryland exercise. His tracking system allows you to see what the swimmer is doing from the most accurate angles because the cameras move along with the swimmer!
What’s The Cost Of Cool Digital Video’s?
Amazingly, they are only $49.95 each. Start with Freestyle or Stroke Drills or Dryland Exercises, or starts and turns. Collect them one at a time or purchase in sets. (Vendors sometimes offer discounts. Please click here for a list of our vendors). Each C/D has over 100 video’s which will be useful for as long as you love the sport of swimming. Beginners and elite performers alike will gain from the experience of viewing these digitized swim video’s. Even non-swimmers will gain an instant appreciation for the intricate movements of our awesome sport.
How do I order Cool Digital Video’s?
Team Orders Are Encouraged. Why should a whole team have the C/D’s? Think about the challenge any coach has in training a team. If he has just 20 swimmers and one hour, he can give each swimmer just three minutes each. And most of the time the swimmer’s heads are in the water, where he or she can’t see or hear very well. It’s no wonder that stroke work is so essential to supplement practice time. Now, swimmers can study at home and be better prepared to learn. Any coach cn now ask a swimmer, for example to study any short film to answer such questions as, “where are your eyes looking when you are halfway through your flip turn?” The swimmers watches the prescribed ten second movie in a loop and comes to the next workout READY to learn or to demonstrate his knowldege that a great turn requires the swimer to see the front wall halfway through the flip. What an AWESOME MOTIVATOR these C/D’s are!
Which Cool Digital Video Collections Are Available? COOL DIGITAL FREESTYLE 443 video’s organized in 15 components of a healthy, fast freestyle. (i.e.:) Reduce drag, increase power, build a clean easy stroke, reach your personal goals. Whether you swim freestyle in open water, competitive age group meets and workouts, high school or YMCA, elite international competion, or you’re a masters or general fitness swimmer, you’ll love this C/D ROM. The better your understanding of the components of perfect freestyle, the better your chance to enjoy a rewarding injury-free swimming career.
COOL DIGITAL STROKE DRILLS 1 The first collection of the world’s most useful and creative and fun stroke drills. Each drill includes a verbal description to help you connect the drill with the benefit to your full stroke. Over 350 drills make this a real motivator as well as a technical “assistant coach”.
COOL DIGITAL STROKE DRILLS 2 The second collection of the world’s most creative, fun, and useful stroke drills is just more drills for each stroke. Over 350 more drills to put a smile on your face and to challenge your coordination while making swimming faster more exciting!
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES 1 Over 300 movies organized by joint and swimming movement. Learn, laugh, get fit fast! Even aspecial section on keeping shoulders healthy.
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES 2 300 more movies bring you strength, endurance and good looks! Great looks and faster times too? Gotta get it!
COOL DIGITAL BACKSTROKE Backstroke teaching progressions, exercises, error corrections, stroke drills, etc. New drills forthe second upsweep, dolphin drills and more. COOL DIGITAL BREASTSTROKE A complete Breakdown and buildup of all the motions you need, from outsweep to recovery, from body position and streamlining to rhythm and power. All the drills and skills which make swimming breaststroke fun and satisfying. A definite competitive advantage is yours as you learn and refine your strokes with Cool Digital Breaststroke.
COOL DIGITAL BUTTERFLY Butterfly teaching progressions, exercises, error corrections, stroke drills, and more. Above and “tracked “under water using special cameras. Over 40,000 color pictures you can print, movies youcan loop, etc.
BOB STEELE’s GAMES AND GIMMICKS I AND II Great coaching and training ideas and an awesome inside look at motivating and teaching by a mastercoach of NCAA and USS champions
In production and almost ready are COOL DIGITAL STARTS, TURNS, AND FINSHES Produced in association with Kerry MacKelvey of The Quick Getaway Group (link this), see, study, and then do starts, turns and finshes that will blow your competion out of the pool! COOL DIGITAL GAMES AND GIMMICKS FOR SWIMMERS WITH BOB STEELE Is swimming faster fun? These drills and games done by master and mentor and NCAA championship coach Bob Steele will put spark in your practices. Bob’s philosophy is that if it isn’t fun to watch, it isn’t fun to do. Watch his college men’s team and also an age group team go through the Games and Gimmicks and you too will have sparking, fun, and effective workouts that are anything but boring!
COOL DIGITAL EXERCISES FOR ATHLETES AND MERE MORTALS Keep those shoulders balanced and healthy, improve your power, flexibility, strength and endurance in and out of the water with hundrds of exercises you can do safely and progressively. Pick and choose the exercises most effective for you to reach your goals. Once you see them, you’ll even come up with ideas of your own. Come to the Tropical Penguin Forum and let us know how you’re doing. Success stories are a part of life with Cool Dgital Exercises.
COOL DIGITAL STRETCHING FOR ATHLETES AND MERE MORTALS Flexible and healthy athletes are at a great advantage. This C/D shows you how in over 300 stretches which are meant to help you gain balance and speed. This fun, loopable format allows you to move as you watch and, of course, you can print any of 40,000 color frames. COOL DIGITAL SWIM LESSONS WITH GINNY FLAHIVE Let this expert at teaching babies to swim teach you the elements of success in all water activities in her unique, fun and kinesthetic way. This C/D is useful for even the most knowledgeable expert in competitive swimming as well as the novice swimmer, teacher, coach, or student of this great sport of swimming. Ginny teaches side breathing from the very beginning and shows love, passion and and technical expertise in each of hundreds of small searchable loopable and printable videos.
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