Critique my Fly

I hope this works. I posted a video clip to YouTube. It's funny, but once I knew I was being recorded, some of my technique went out the window. Is there a difference in technique from a sprint standpoint and swimming distance? I push my hands forward and "vacation" a little bit, but is this a technique for surviving distance? www.youtube.com/watch Thank you. It's hard to run a meaningful analysis out of the initial 25m of a Fly bout, when the stroke looks all in all quite sound. Ideally, we'd need a full 100m to see where the technique degrades with fatigue. Generally speaking, you want your hands to enter after the head, after the first kick, and more importantly you want them to exit in the same time as the 2nd kick. Depending on your rate, you have more or less time to draw a wide shape pull. So as you increase the rate (ie, drifting toward 50m specific stroke), you don't have much time to bring the hands backward, hence a straighter pulling pathway. What I really like in your stroke, and please don't loose this, is that when you don't breathe, your head remains quite high. A very common mistake, even at the highest level is to let the head drop whilst not breathing. That, for some, causes the shoulders to drop a bit, thus interfering with the swimmer's ability to fly over so to speak. If I had been there when you recorded this clip, one thing I would I digged a bit deeper is about your leg kick. You seem to go very hard on the second kick, but not so hard on the first one. As a consequence, in spite of a pace that's fairly up tempo, your hips don't seem to break the surface very much. This could indicate a bit more frontal drag resistance. The first kick is quite important. Several theoreticians have proposed that it should be the dominant one.

I hope this works. I posted a video clip to YouTube. It's funny, but once I knew I was being recorded, some of my technique went out the window. Is there a difference in technique from a sprint standpoint and swimming distance? I push my hands forward and "vacation" a little bit, but is this a technique for surviving distance? www.youtube.com/watch Thank you. It's hard to run a meaningful analysis out of the initial 25m of a Fly bout, when the stroke looks all in all quite sound. Ideally, we'd need a full 100m to see where the technique degrades with fatigue. Generally speaking, you want your hands to enter after the head, after the first kick, and more importantly you want them to exit in the same time as the 2nd kick. Depending on your rate, you have more or less time to draw a wide shape pull. So as you increase the rate (ie, drifting toward 50m specific stroke), you don't have much time to bring the hands backward, hence a straighter pulling pathway. What I really like in your stroke, and please don't loose this, is that when you don't breathe, your head remains quite high. A very common mistake, even at the highest level is to let the head drop whilst not breathing. That, for some, causes the shoulders to drop a bit, thus interfering with the swimmer's ability to fly over so to speak. If I had been there when you recorded this clip, one thing I would I digged a bit deeper is about your leg kick. You seem to go very hard on the second kick, but not so hard on the first one. As a consequence, in spite of a pace that's fairly up tempo, your hips don't seem to break the surface very much. This could indicate a bit more frontal drag resistance. The first kick is quite important. Several theoreticians have proposed that it should be the dominant one.