Please critique my swimming. Any and all comments are welcome, on any aspect of the strokes. In these clips, I am swimming at about 80% effort. If you can suggest any drills or other ways to fix my strokes, please let me know.
Butterfly
Backstroke
Breaststroke
Freestyle
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Back:
Your arms look too slow for your kick.This is possibly due to lack of upper body strength.Your under water arm motion is not correct.The arm should enter the water then the shoulders rotate and then the elbow drops to allow you to push back and down past your body.This is where the main thrust comes from in back.Your arms are too straight and sweeping.Watch a good swimmer under water.Do 2L/2R arm drills to focus on the action once you learn it.Do freestyle with paddles to build upper body strength.Then progress to paddles in back but only once you have the stroke corrected.
Fly:Not too bad .You just lack upper body strength and core strength/flexibility.Do 25m Fly kick sets on your back.Focus on entire body motion.Not just the kick.Add zoomers when you get stronger to build more strength and flexibilty.The Free with paddles will help the upper body.
Free.Get your elbows up.Swimming is about getting on top of the water and going forward.Elbows therefore up ,shoulders rotate and push the entire arm/shoulder forward.Your catch is late and a little robotic rather than general feel for the water.Catch early and have more push/strength in the back half of the stroke.I suggest 100m sets with small FLAT paddles.Use a 2 beat kick and focus on arms.As the stroke improves then try mixing 2 and 4 beat kicks into your Free.
NB: Most people are not as good as you are on all strokes.To get even better then do 25% overall on each stroke at training.Most people don't do this.:)
Back:
Your arms look too slow for your kick.This is possibly due to lack of upper body strength.Your under water arm motion is not correct.The arm should enter the water then the shoulders rotate and then the elbow drops to allow you to push back and down past your body.This is where the main thrust comes from in back.Your arms are too straight and sweeping.Watch a good swimmer under water.Do 2L/2R arm drills to focus on the action once you learn it.Do freestyle with paddles to build upper body strength.Then progress to paddles in back but only once you have the stroke corrected.
Fly:Not too bad .You just lack upper body strength and core strength/flexibility.Do 25m Fly kick sets on your back.Focus on entire body motion.Not just the kick.Add zoomers when you get stronger to build more strength and flexibilty.The Free with paddles will help the upper body.
Free.Get your elbows up.Swimming is about getting on top of the water and going forward.Elbows therefore up ,shoulders rotate and push the entire arm/shoulder forward.Your catch is late and a little robotic rather than general feel for the water.Catch early and have more push/strength in the back half of the stroke.I suggest 100m sets with small FLAT paddles.Use a 2 beat kick and focus on arms.As the stroke improves then try mixing 2 and 4 beat kicks into your Free.
NB: Most people are not as good as you are on all strokes.To get even better then do 25% overall on each stroke at training.Most people don't do this.:)
