Hi fellas,
I used to swim quite a lot when I was a kid, but that stopped 10 years ago. Now, I've hit the pool once again and I feel that after 100m, I'm already exhausted. I'm good at everything else: I play lots of basketball, some tennis, I hit the gym regularly, etc, so stamina should not be an issue. Perhaps it takes a while for my body to get used to swimming, I don't know. In the meantime, I thought maybe it's a technique issue, so I've uploaded two videos:
Front crawl: P9090025 - YouTube
Butterfly: P9090026 - YouTube
The one I really care about right now is the front crawl. I'm trying to get my bronze medallion and bronze cross, and the requirement is 600m in 18 minutes. I can do that at an abysmal 16 minutes. I need to get it down to at least 10 minutes.
I'll appreciate every constructive criticism.
Thanks
Parents
Former Member
This may been said, maybe in different context, but you need to keep your head more neutral. Do not have your face forward, rather you should be looking at the bottom when not breathing. This will help reduce tension in the back, and raise your hips and kick alignment.
This may also have been said, but the amplitude of your kick seems large. Have you tried to increase the kick frequency, and reduce the amplitude?
Like I said in the previous post, the water is very murky and there's no line at the bottom, so I fear if I don't look forward, I'll run into the side or front walls.
As for the kicks, I can make it splash less, it's no problem. It's just that I've been swimming (or rather *not* swimming) so long without a coach that I've forgotten a lot of the details. So thanks :)
This may been said, maybe in different context, but you need to keep your head more neutral. Do not have your face forward, rather you should be looking at the bottom when not breathing. This will help reduce tension in the back, and raise your hips and kick alignment.
This may also have been said, but the amplitude of your kick seems large. Have you tried to increase the kick frequency, and reduce the amplitude?
Like I said in the previous post, the water is very murky and there's no line at the bottom, so I fear if I don't look forward, I'll run into the side or front walls.
As for the kicks, I can make it splash less, it's no problem. It's just that I've been swimming (or rather *not* swimming) so long without a coach that I've forgotten a lot of the details. So thanks :)
