Folks,
Can some of you kind souls help me understand how I can improve my freestyle technique please. Horrible kicking style and lousy streamline. Root cause and any drill suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Front Crawl Aug 2012 - YouTube
There are two segments. Upto 2 min breathing on my left most-comfortable side. After 2 min or so both side breathing which I have been forcing to do - not comfortable at all. There are couple of views in each segment - about a 45-60 sec or so.
Ths/V.
If you have the patience and desire to "start from scratch" and build an efficient stroke from the ground up, I can recommend the Total Immersion technique. Just to give you an easily quantifiable stat, when I started several years ago, at the pace you are swimming in your video, I was taking about the same number of strokes per length that you take - 17 - 19 or so (I'm assuming that's a 25 yd pool). Now I can hold a pretty steady 13 SPL at that moderate pace. SPL isn't everything, but it is a pretty good measure of efficiency, which is what TI emphasizes. Check out their website: www.totalimmersion.net/home
If you don't want to go that route, I'm sure you can get many good suggestions for modifying your stroke on this site.
Good luck!
If you have the patience and desire to "start from scratch" and build an efficient stroke from the ground up, I can recommend the Total Immersion technique. Just to give you an easily quantifiable stat, when I started several years ago, at the pace you are swimming in your video, I was taking about the same number of strokes per length that you take - 17 - 19 or so (I'm assuming that's a 25 yd pool). Now I can hold a pretty steady 13 SPL at that moderate pace. SPL isn't everything, but it is a pretty good measure of efficiency, which is what TI emphasizes. Check out their website: www.totalimmersion.net/home
If you don't want to go that route, I'm sure you can get many good suggestions for modifying your stroke on this site.
Good luck!
