Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Swim Meet

Swim meet day preparations
  • Take Angela to school by 7:20 (check)
  • Go home and Drive Brian to school early. (check)
  • Leave at 7:50 to get to the new Atos Pan Am swim Center in Markham before 9am (check)
  • Take short cuts as it is close to my work location (check)
  • Just about there and there is an accident. Detour and get there before meet starts. (not on list but check)
  • Ask lady what side of Pool the races will be on to get good seats. (check)

  • Sit one row up to get good view of lane 9. The lane we were told Angela would be in (check).
  • Take some test pictures of lane 9 to make sure you can get good shot of diving and swimming (check)

  • Discuss which devices to use (Small camera for video as it has 20x zoom and can get lane 9. Big camera for action shots (check). 
    • Confirm don't video whole race as battery will not last (check)
    • Put big camera in multi shot mode to take good shots of dive (check)
  • Test out videoing (check)
  • Test shot of first heat (check)

Heat 2. Angela's Heat
  • Swimmers at the podium
    • What lane 0?, I thought they would be lane 9. 
    • No time to change plans now, stick with original preparations


  • First person dive. 
    • Good shot


  • First person swimming. 
    • o.k. shot and know what to do for when Angela swims.

  • I don't know if your camera is taking video Silvana? 
    • I'm not sure why it is stopping all the time?
  • Angela guiding her junior team mates
    • Lots of time she anchors so I am ready
  • Angela getting prepped to anchor 


  • Angela on the diving block and ready to go

  • This is it I am ready for the dive
  • Yes get your phone on and take video with that. Now that it is lane 0 you should be fine
  • Ready set dive 
    • Some old guys hand in the way no worries I have multi shot on


    • Some old guys hand in the way again


  • First good shot of Angela










  • Angela turning
    • Flip turn. That's great!


  • There she goes. Touches the Omega time wall

    • Take picture of score board
      • Angela Fragos .. what happened to the "n" ......arghhhh