Derek Fun Reel

So I finally came up with a finished product with all the filming I've been doing. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. I learned a lot about myself and how I move doing this in a way that I could not have without the camera. It's a useful medium and allowed me to fix up a lot of my misshapen movement patterns. I would totally suggest this as a theme for training for a week or so just to see how it affects one's training.

Objective/subjective

I made a video the other day for halloween because I made a spiderman mask and figured it shouldn't go to waste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aFsYQRFhHU
Funny thing is that it helped me realize the discrepancy between what it feels like I'm doing and what is actually happening. While I can attribute a lot of the awkwardness to my lack of full vision, I've noticed discrepancies in other video footage where I'm moving a lot more slowly than I figured. I've managed to connect stuff from my philosophy studies with my unique problem and am realizing a solution. My subjective experience of how I'm moving is slightly off with how it objectively looks in the camera. This is only a problem since it has the potential to limit my technique on certain progressions. The goal is to align my subjective experience with the objective. Therefore, i'll be taking a lot more footage. I've noticed that this is an interesting way to train too since I'm forced to do my runs full speed, over and over again, most importantly with good form. This is actually how I thought I was training before but the footage shows clearly not. Overall, I'm simply saying that a camera can serve as an incredibly useful tool.