Burke Sims 500 Free 2009 IHSA State Champion & Record

[Jaaaackw]

you were breathing off the walls !

[grifburk]

ridiculas i had to swim against this kid in the mile and im 13. he went like 16 10 i went like 16:54 hahha he is so fast

[proraceer07]

sorry burke sims your record of the 500 free is no longer there because of danny thomson 4:21.04

[Brahminnoodle]

PUSSY FLOATY SUIT!!! also, lane 4 was riding that lan line so hard trying to drag off of him, but Burk was too far over that it was ineffective. however, if lane 6 had even attempted to ride the lane line a little closer (mainly between 250-350 yards) he could have knocked a solid second AT LEAST off of his time. it was a good race, and i recall watching on deck my freshman year and being amazed as to the lead he had over the rest of the pool but i doubt he would do it again.

[MVPacMan23]

quiet, troll.

[MVPacMan23]

because hes in college.

[krazyswimgal]

okay people. you need to realize that a swim like that takes a huge amount of work. an amount of work you would not even realize. also, no every person that performs well in high school is on roids. has it ever occured to you that people change and grow. yeah, that would be called puberty. learn your stuff before you start accusing. you need to get over it. this kid kicks ass!

[allenjames32]

Do they check for roids in high school>?? Cause that is a outragous improvement from Jr year to SR....... not accusing, but it would be nice to know with all the use in high schools today/\

[Channel58]

Full body flotation suits are now illegal. Too bad. Nice race but anyone with a hot time in a suit like this needs an asterick next to their name.

[with1m]

@Channel58

Everyone else was wearing a full body too and were 6 seconds behind. Training, dedication, hard work and sacrifice!!

[Channel58]

@with1m Lane 3 looks like he is wearing only the lower body suit.

[muscleEVmass]

@Channel58 I'm so tired of this. People say blah blah blah full body suits are cheating this and that. It's like your faulting the swimmer for keeping up with the technology of the sport. If they were really that effective, the record would have been broken by a lot more. It's really not logical to call someone out for doing something that wasn't wrong when they did it.

[Bassmasta79]

check that freshy who got sixth he might be this guys record

[Brahminnoodle]

@Bassmasta79 killeen seems to be moving backwards as opposed to forwards. he didn't even qualify for the finals his sophmore year.

[Swimalien1]

yay for me not caring who won!

i would have been pissed if neither honsa (club) nor sims (school) won.

[kubik022]

such a sweet race. good look at stanford buddy.

[linktriforcemaster1]

damn sims! your a beast! nice job.

[mU51cFAN]

wow, lots of stamina!

[IrishStud992]

amazing race!!! i seriously got sooo pumped after watching this!haha (: and the song at the beginnings called 'clocks' and the one at the end is called 'viva la vida' both by coldplay

[darksage4ever]

great swim by the way

[darksage4ever]

you were listed as one of the 2009 top ten 200 yard freestyle swimmers for USA swimming. but you were listed as a 16 year old, I thought you were going to college this year. why are you listed as a 16 year old?

[with1m]

I believe that listing was using results from last year.

[jungweizer]

Oh and whats the name of the song in the very beginning and the very end?

[TenaciousAP1]

clocks and viva la vida, both by coldplay

[jungweizer]

what college you going to swim for next year?

[with1m]

Stanford University

[jungweizer]

whoa! congratulations man! We'll all see you in the next olympics for sure. This song is so perfect for this video. Good job on making this video.

[jungweizer]

very nice video! I love the song. How can anybody be holding like under 53s in the 500 free?? just kidding... but he must have really good stroke technique.

[M3talRul3zz]

defending state champion & rival? bryant has a name you know

[dtcswim]

I used to swim against his dad!

[Khrisbrock]

I always loved state at New Trier and Evanston. They pack so many people in the stands and the energy is just unreal when you are on deck.

[Brahminnoodle]

@Khrisbrock i personally like Evanston's pool better.

[garfunckle89]

GO NORTH

[swims4zbs]

still keep coming back to this video. Can't get over that swim. One of the best I've ever seen.

[with1m]

Thats very kind of you to say so. Its always fun to see somebody do something that's never been done before. I must admit I've also watched it about 40x.

[EclipseDancer]

i know him!

[bigbean815]

I had heard through the swimming grape vine of his record...which is unbelievable! It was good to get to see it.

The reason I am emailing you is to find out how you put in the splits, and identifiers throughout the race. I have 2 boys in swimming 8 & under, I have been using imovie to do the same thing you did and have had a lot of fun with it. Yours appears to be in imovie as well, if it was I need to learn how to identify my kids out of the other 7 in the pool.

Thanks for taking the time!

[with1m]

I did make this video with iMovie. The split times and other identifiers are done in YouTube once you have uploaded the video. Use the "Annotations" feature.

[bigbean815]

Thanks! Appreciate it. again nice job!

[swims4zbs]

Amazing video though, glad someone took the time to edit out such a detailed video of this. All I've seen before this is the last 125 on facebook. This is amazing though, again, thanks