I have a couple of videos taken last week i though I'd share with you and get your most respected feedback. I've been swimming for about 4 months now :woot:Any comments will be appreciated!
Freestyle easy
www.youtube.com/watch
Freestyle fast
www.youtube.com/watch
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Well, for only four months of swimming, my goggles are off to you!! Congrats!! I think it is so brave for people to post these videos, I never have but I don't have access to one, but I sure wish I did.
I noticed, in addition to a slight arm crossover like Kyra mentioned, that your left arm appears a little more lazy. What I mean is on the slow video and a time or two on the fast video, your elbow is almost entering the water first instead of your arm/forearm. I also noticed that when you turn to breathe, your legs are splitting apart instead of staying parallel to one another and this causes too much body movement.
The last thing I noticed, because I could see the left arm better than the right arm, is when you were almost finished with the underwater pull stroke, you were in a hurry to recover that arm to start another stroke. At the moment this happened, it looked like it was "slipping". And when I mention slipping I mean that the water you had previously caught and grabbed in the front part of the stroke, you let go of it toward the end. I would call this not quite finishing the stroke.
But for four months of swimming, I'd say you are IN!!!
donna
Well, for only four months of swimming, my goggles are off to you!! Congrats!! I think it is so brave for people to post these videos, I never have but I don't have access to one, but I sure wish I did.
I noticed, in addition to a slight arm crossover like Kyra mentioned, that your left arm appears a little more lazy. What I mean is on the slow video and a time or two on the fast video, your elbow is almost entering the water first instead of your arm/forearm. I also noticed that when you turn to breathe, your legs are splitting apart instead of staying parallel to one another and this causes too much body movement.
The last thing I noticed, because I could see the left arm better than the right arm, is when you were almost finished with the underwater pull stroke, you were in a hurry to recover that arm to start another stroke. At the moment this happened, it looked like it was "slipping". And when I mention slipping I mean that the water you had previously caught and grabbed in the front part of the stroke, you let go of it toward the end. I would call this not quite finishing the stroke.
But for four months of swimming, I'd say you are IN!!!
donna
