Video - Have you seen you swim?

Lindsay, my ancient computer is having trouble with the videos, but it looks like you breathe on the first stroke off the wall. My training partner hammered me about that in practice, and I have been working on it for a long time until it becomes second nature to breathe second stroke. The second 50 in a 200 should be easy speed, so you should be able to hold your head down at that point. The last 200 I did I think I was able to breathe second stroke out until the very last turn. I dropped over 5 seconds off my PB in that race, and quite a bit of that was from better turns. "It's free and easy speed, 'cause other than the start, you're never going faster than the push off the wall" my partner says, and he's sorta half right -- it's not exactly easy, but it is more or less free. Better to take an extra breath going into the wall than ruin that fast, streamlined glide with a big sideways gulp of admittedly precious air. Great post, thanks for letting folks comment on your video.

Lindsay, my ancient computer is having trouble with the videos, but it looks like you breathe on the first stroke off the wall. My training partner hammered me about that in practice, and I have been working on it for a long time until it becomes second nature to breathe second stroke. The second 50 in a 200 should be easy speed, so you should be able to hold your head down at that point. The last 200 I did I think I was able to breathe second stroke out until the very last turn. I dropped over 5 seconds off my PB in that race, and quite a bit of that was from better turns. "It's free and easy speed, 'cause other than the start, you're never going faster than the push off the wall" my partner says, and he's sorta half right -- it's not exactly easy, but it is more or less free. Better to take an extra breath going into the wall than ruin that fast, streamlined glide with a big sideways gulp of admittedly precious air. Great post, thanks for letting folks comment on your video.