I learned how to swim freestyle two summers ago and I love it! I'd appreciate any swimming tips and feedback. I'd like to improve my form with the aim of swimming faster triathlon distances (1.5 - 4 km). The video below is grainy and watermarked but I'm hoping there's enough there to give a general gist of my current stroke.
http://youtu.be/H4_a263ytBw
Thanks!
It (↑) might be alot of info, but believe me, it will pay off if you take the time. It will be a great deal of work, but the more you continue without correction, the more difficult it will be to fix. Even worse, it may cause permanent shoulder problems. I'm speaking from experience after injuring my good shoulder within the first few years of swimming.
One thing I notice is that you should think of yourself as a solid vessle that rotates together using the torso and hips. The butt should surface and you look straight down (as if your watching fish below you on a reef). The shoulders don't rotate at all, they just flex. When you breath, just rotate enough so you can get your air from also turning the head, but the head must stay within the same axis. There's alot of drills for this (I have been working on daily recently).
There is also some excellent cd's/downloads available at go-swim
Also, brain might have covered it above, but whenever your arm is out of the water everything about the arm should be relaxed, especially the shoulder. Just let gravity grab the arm into the water.
It (↑) might be alot of info, but believe me, it will pay off if you take the time. It will be a great deal of work, but the more you continue without correction, the more difficult it will be to fix. Even worse, it may cause permanent shoulder problems. I'm speaking from experience after injuring my good shoulder within the first few years of swimming.
One thing I notice is that you should think of yourself as a solid vessle that rotates together using the torso and hips. The butt should surface and you look straight down (as if your watching fish below you on a reef). The shoulders don't rotate at all, they just flex. When you breath, just rotate enough so you can get your air from also turning the head, but the head must stay within the same axis. There's alot of drills for this (I have been working on daily recently).
There is also some excellent cd's/downloads available at go-swim
Also, brain might have covered it above, but whenever your arm is out of the water everything about the arm should be relaxed, especially the shoulder. Just let gravity grab the arm into the water.
