Our partnership with SwimSpeedUnseen

Last week, we entered into an agreement with SwimSpeedUnseen to provide them with a Qwatercam unit for dynamic, continuous underwater video analysis. We're excited to welcome them to our pilot cohort!

SwimSpeedUnseen uses underwater video footage synced with wearable sensor data to determine inefficiencies in stroke and improve swimming performance. By combining underwater video with various metrics, swimmers and coaches can see where exactly they generate the most power, and what specific areas they need to improve on.

In the past, gathering this underwater footage involved a coach or someone else on the pool deck sticking a static camera on a pole, and physically following a swimmer to gather footage and keep them in frame. Recorded footage was cumbersome to interact with, and swimmers often "swam for the camera" - i.e. masking issues in their technique because they know they're being recorded for a short period of time. It's just not a perfect or realistic representation of how we swim most of the time.

With Qwatercam, this is no longer the case. Autonomous tracking allows SwimSpeedUnseen and their customers to gather higher quality footage, and lots of it, without stopping. Experts can now focus on actually viewing underwater footage in real time rather than trying to manually keep a swimmer in frame. Bad stroke habits that would normally be covered up in 15 second clips are now exposed over the course of an entire 50 or 100, leading to faster iteration on technique changes, and more progress being made in a single session.

SwimSpeedUnseen is just one example of how Qwatercam helps teams and coaches. If you're interested in joining, fill out our form with your information on the Qwatercam home page.

Hope to see you soon!