I was directed to this community by a customer service agent, so I'm hopeful that my request will be read by someone who works in product/app development. I have the Versa, a new purchase after many years with another brand of tracker, synched to a Samsung GS8+.
I am pleased that trackers are making some attempt to include swimming in the exercises able to be tracked, and for the most part, my Versa works well with this. I typically start/end my swim app manually, so there is no question as to when my swim workout starts/stops.
The app more-or-less accurately identifies my strokes as I swim, but developers seem unaware that swim training very often includes drills that are not one of the 4 recognized strokes. If your arm movements mimic the motions of one of the major strokes, all is fine, but if you are doing kick drills (no arm involvement), the app can't recognize what the swimmer is doing. I completely understand that and understand that in such a situation my stroke would be called "unknown" by the device.
The problem is that the device won't even recognize that as I kick I'm continuing to go back and forth across the pool. It just stops tracking my movement all together if my arms aren't doing anything. Kick drills are not tracked as "unknown"--they are just ignored altogether. My final lap/yardage stats are nowhere near accurate due to this omission.
My suggestion is that the app be updated to at least recognize in this situation that the swimmer continues to go back and forth across the pool, and to at least track the lengths/distance (via the connected GPS, which is already set up), even if the stroke is logged as "unknown."
Virtually every serious swimmer I know includes kicking drills in their training. This would be a huge, and much appreciated improvement for us.
Thank you!
