Ok you can all view my video and laugh at my expense, or leave constructive feedback. Enjoy.
Rich
www.youtube.com/watch
PS enjoy my daughter's camerawork post race analysis!
A few comments, most of which echo other posts:
1. WAAY too short on your underwater pullouts, both on the start and at the turn. Consider learning the "one-hole" entry from the blocks, which provides better streamlining off the start and gives better leg propulsion on water entry.
Be very careful on your arm recovery on the pullout - keep your hands and elbows close to your body on the recovery.
A dolphin kick is now legal on the pullout recovery, but you are a wimp if you succumb to this godforsaken Kitajima-apologist component - it's breaststroke not butterfly. :frustrated:
2. (George Park - where are you?) It appears that you are "swimming uphil", such that your legs and chest present a large drag area, whic slows you down.
3. You are starting your pull before you've finished your kick (probably to speed your turnover). While others may debate that this is acceptable (look at Mark Warneke's 50 breaststroke style, for example - he uses this technique to good advantage - he was world 50 champion at age 35 years, and I don't mean that he was the 35 - 39 age group champion - he was WORLD CHAMPION). Having said that, it seems to me that if you were to streamline your arm recovery you might be faster, even if your turnover was slightly slower. :blah:
4. TURN technique: :bow: Buy Dave Denniston's breaststroke turns and pullouts video. :bow: You can buy it from Glenn Mills (1980 US 200 breaststroke Olympian) at http://www.goswim.tv. Dave offers a six-step technique that is far and away the sleekest and fastest open turn I've ever seen. Watch the video. Commit the six steps to memory. Practice them every time you do an open turn in practice, warmup, or event.
And don't forget to thank Dave when you swim faster - you will swim faster if you learn to turn even remotely like Davo. And please, everyone, donate money to help him walk again at http://www.davedenniston.com
A few comments, most of which echo other posts:
1. WAAY too short on your underwater pullouts, both on the start and at the turn. Consider learning the "one-hole" entry from the blocks, which provides better streamlining off the start and gives better leg propulsion on water entry.
Be very careful on your arm recovery on the pullout - keep your hands and elbows close to your body on the recovery.
A dolphin kick is now legal on the pullout recovery, but you are a wimp if you succumb to this godforsaken Kitajima-apologist component - it's breaststroke not butterfly. :frustrated:
2. (George Park - where are you?) It appears that you are "swimming uphil", such that your legs and chest present a large drag area, whic slows you down.
3. You are starting your pull before you've finished your kick (probably to speed your turnover). While others may debate that this is acceptable (look at Mark Warneke's 50 breaststroke style, for example - he uses this technique to good advantage - he was world 50 champion at age 35 years, and I don't mean that he was the 35 - 39 age group champion - he was WORLD CHAMPION). Having said that, it seems to me that if you were to streamline your arm recovery you might be faster, even if your turnover was slightly slower. :blah:
4. TURN technique: :bow: Buy Dave Denniston's breaststroke turns and pullouts video. :bow: You can buy it from Glenn Mills (1980 US 200 breaststroke Olympian) at http://www.goswim.tv. Dave offers a six-step technique that is far and away the sleekest and fastest open turn I've ever seen. Watch the video. Commit the six steps to memory. Practice them every time you do an open turn in practice, warmup, or event.
And don't forget to thank Dave when you swim faster - you will swim faster if you learn to turn even remotely like Davo. And please, everyone, donate money to help him walk again at http://www.davedenniston.com
