Swimming stroke recognition

It may be my swimming style, but my stroke is consistently breaststroke but the watch identifies freestyle and backstroke frequently (about 5-10% of lengths swam).

This for pool swimming.

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+1 Garmin - Chris over 4 years ago

Your watch accelerometer is listening to all movement to detect the correct stroke being used. For it to work well, it is looking closely at every minute movement. What will sometimes work well to improve stroke recognition is to wear your watch on your other wrist when you swim.

This Support Center provides further helpful information:

- Tips to Improve Swim Distance Accuracy

0 DJGShef over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

OK, thanks. I might give this a try some time.

(Though I would assume the majority of people wear their watch on the left wrist, as do I)