efernand wrote:
I suspect that it's looking for a relatively long push off, at least compared to your stroke.
I haven't seen a V800 yet and don't know how it works or what it displays. But does it have a current distance display while you are swimming? Does it increment at every turn? ie: you start it shows 0m, after you turn, it shows 25m,etc. I would try swimming a length, turning, pushing off the wall and gliding for as long as possible while watching the display and see if it updates.
I don't want to criticize your swimming without seeing it, but I have seen people turn and push off the wall with their head practically out of the water, and their arms start moving almost before their feet have left the wall, and I can see how that could mess up the computations.
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Swam again last night (I do Master Swim three times per week). 250 yard freestyle warmup, only counted 75 yard. I made sure I pushed off hard and long, not success. It seems to do okay when I did 15*50 yards. The damn watch is so unreliable it pisses me off. My stroke technique is like it should be for freestyle (we have a swim coach watching us). The problem I have is that I have no time to just test the watch, since the pool is quite full before our practice.