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.
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Thanks everyone for your comments and help.
GregJS: Will have to pass on TI. BTW, always liked Shinji's video and would love to emulate his stroke. But without a pair of friendly discerning eyes to watch over me (say like a buddy or a coach) I am afraid it would be a futile exercise for me.
Quicksilver: I have been doing (1) one-arm freestyle, and also, (2) leg kicks on the side. One thing I have found is after an exercise set of one-arm freestyle when I resume normal swimming feel like I want to do catch-up drill type swimming rather than regular swimming! I hope this is natural because of the one-arm freestyle.
Also, should I not be correcting my breathing, especially the right-side (uncomfortable side) which I seem to over rotate? Doesn't this also cause instability in my stroke? Or you feel the cross over so over the top that we need get that first? Curious.
BTW, during the one-arm freestyle I seem to have discovered the "pocket" for breathing and breathe OK on both sides! I can see the water surface from below from one eye, whereas with the other eye I see the edge of the pool. Weird! Maybe the slowness/deliberateness of the drill allows me to observe this that I never seen before! (Previously I used to watch my elbow with both eyes while breathing, and hence, much held a much higher eye sight-line). Anyway, now, during regular swim I go back to the same old bad habit of higher sight-line and over rotating.
Any tips/drills to incorporate the new-breathing in the "pocket" routine into regular strokes to prevent over rotation? Thank you for your critical eye and helpful suggestions.
Everyone: comments/tips welcome.
Will post how all this turns out
V.
Thanks everyone for your comments and help.
GregJS: Will have to pass on TI. BTW, always liked Shinji's video and would love to emulate his stroke. But without a pair of friendly discerning eyes to watch over me (say like a buddy or a coach) I am afraid it would be a futile exercise for me.
Quicksilver: I have been doing (1) one-arm freestyle, and also, (2) leg kicks on the side. One thing I have found is after an exercise set of one-arm freestyle when I resume normal swimming feel like I want to do catch-up drill type swimming rather than regular swimming! I hope this is natural because of the one-arm freestyle.
Also, should I not be correcting my breathing, especially the right-side (uncomfortable side) which I seem to over rotate? Doesn't this also cause instability in my stroke? Or you feel the cross over so over the top that we need get that first? Curious.
BTW, during the one-arm freestyle I seem to have discovered the "pocket" for breathing and breathe OK on both sides! I can see the water surface from below from one eye, whereas with the other eye I see the edge of the pool. Weird! Maybe the slowness/deliberateness of the drill allows me to observe this that I never seen before! (Previously I used to watch my elbow with both eyes while breathing, and hence, much held a much higher eye sight-line). Anyway, now, during regular swim I go back to the same old bad habit of higher sight-line and over rotating.
Any tips/drills to incorporate the new-breathing in the "pocket" routine into regular strokes to prevent over rotation? Thank you for your critical eye and helpful suggestions.
Everyone: comments/tips welcome.
Will post how all this turns out
V.