So recently my friend recorded me doing some easy laps in a 25 meter pool. I saw that my stroke was not really as good as I thought. Here is a link to it 28072011016 - YouTube (Sorry for the bad quality) . I compared my stroke to people like Cesar cielo , weber gale , Fred bousquet etc. and found out that those strokes are much superior to mine. Plz give me some tips on how to improve the stroke and make it as good as those guys.
@ speedo : THanx a lot for the response. my goal is to swim the 50 free as fast as possible. I currently do the 50 free LCM under 24.6 secs. I am a self taught guy and pretty new to swimming. I want to take swimming a bit more seriously but not sure if I should join a swim team because I have horrible aerobic capacity and coaches usually don't like people like me. So I go to the pool and do pretty much what I feel like doing. But I think I should change that to get faster. So thats pretty much all about me in short. Thanx again for the advice.That helps. You may want to find a team/coach and talk to them about your situation. I don't think that training on your own is a bad idea, but you may find someone who can give you constant feedback on your stroke, and have you do drills and quality work while the other people on the team are doing aerobic stuff. It may be tough to find a place like this, but if you have to train solo that's not a bad thing either. A few of the faster sprinters on this forum train solo almost exclusively for the reasons you cite, so you are not alone.
Slight revision of my answers;
1) Do as much rotary as you can with plenty of rest between efforts. Slow rotary drills are good, but you also want to do some fast swimming to get used to going at speed. But you don't have to/want to do it all the time- when warming up/down just do whatever you feel like, but when you doing the tough stuff, use the rotary.
2) I assume you use a 6 beat kick during your race, so do it perfectly when doing the tough stuff- same advice as above. Practice how you will race.
@ speedo : THanx a lot for the response. my goal is to swim the 50 free as fast as possible. I currently do the 50 free LCM under 24.6 secs. I am a self taught guy and pretty new to swimming. I want to take swimming a bit more seriously but not sure if I should join a swim team because I have horrible aerobic capacity and coaches usually don't like people like me. So I go to the pool and do pretty much what I feel like doing. But I think I should change that to get faster. So thats pretty much all about me in short. Thanx again for the advice.That helps. You may want to find a team/coach and talk to them about your situation. I don't think that training on your own is a bad idea, but you may find someone who can give you constant feedback on your stroke, and have you do drills and quality work while the other people on the team are doing aerobic stuff. It may be tough to find a place like this, but if you have to train solo that's not a bad thing either. A few of the faster sprinters on this forum train solo almost exclusively for the reasons you cite, so you are not alone.
Slight revision of my answers;
1) Do as much rotary as you can with plenty of rest between efforts. Slow rotary drills are good, but you also want to do some fast swimming to get used to going at speed. But you don't have to/want to do it all the time- when warming up/down just do whatever you feel like, but when you doing the tough stuff, use the rotary.
2) I assume you use a 6 beat kick during your race, so do it perfectly when doing the tough stuff- same advice as above. Practice how you will race.
