Help me to find mistakes in my freestyle technique (VIDEO)

Hi. Thank you very much, swimlong and Rain Man for your advice and detailed discussion of my freestyle video. I must accept that the flaws you mentioned are very actual, and I should improve them in order to make my swimming better. As much as I have concluded from your posts: I should work on: 1) Making the pull earlier, just before the recovery hand enters water(catchup problem). Three-quarter drill will help me to improve this element 2) Making more propulsion per stroke. To reach this I think I should work on: a) Making underwater pull more effective (with high elbow, moving hand backwards, until it exits the water, and not exiting it too early) b) using paddles to train some more propulsive pull c) resolving catchup problem mentioned in point 1. 3) Also making more quick catch/pull movement ( in the video I am swimming slowly intentionally). But I guess my catch/pull is a bit lazy. Some points that are not mentioned in your posts, but I think about them also as flaws in technique, they are: 1) I am crossing too far my hands during the water entry. I extend my right hand too far to the left, and left hand too right. 2) Legs. I think my kicking is too wide. Especially during the inhale.They create additional drag IMHO. 3) My SPL is too high: 17-18 ( I think it will reduce, as soon as I make my propulsion more effective). I live in Georgia (not USA, but republic of Georgia www.swimsmoothforum.com/.../icon_e_smile.gif ) So we don't have qualified coaches here, and I love swimming. So I have to analize my swimming for myself, and any advice from you (swimmers, coaches) is very important for me. I really got very useful information about flaws in my technique. Now I an going to eliminate that flaws, record a new video and post it here in several weeks.

Hi. Thank you very much, swimlong and Rain Man for your advice and detailed discussion of my freestyle video. I must accept that the flaws you mentioned are very actual, and I should improve them in order to make my swimming better. As much as I have concluded from your posts: I should work on: 1) Making the pull earlier, just before the recovery hand enters water(catchup problem). Three-quarter drill will help me to improve this element 2) Making more propulsion per stroke. To reach this I think I should work on: a) Making underwater pull more effective (with high elbow, moving hand backwards, until it exits the water, and not exiting it too early) b) using paddles to train some more propulsive pull c) resolving catchup problem mentioned in point 1. 3) Also making more quick catch/pull movement ( in the video I am swimming slowly intentionally). But I guess my catch/pull is a bit lazy. Some points that are not mentioned in your posts, but I think about them also as flaws in technique, they are: 1) I am crossing too far my hands during the water entry. I extend my right hand too far to the left, and left hand too right. 2) Legs. I think my kicking is too wide. Especially during the inhale.They create additional drag IMHO. 3) My SPL is too high: 17-18 ( I think it will reduce, as soon as I make my propulsion more effective). I live in Georgia (not USA, but republic of Georgia www.swimsmoothforum.com/.../icon_e_smile.gif ) So we don't have qualified coaches here, and I love swimming. So I have to analize my swimming for myself, and any advice from you (swimmers, coaches) is very important for me. I really got very useful information about flaws in my technique. Now I an going to eliminate that flaws, record a new video and post it here in several weeks.