Breaststroke Pullout Q's

I'm just learning these formally (I taught myself a few years ago) and consequently suck at the pullout. I always mess up the timing and I"m almost always too deep, especially from a dive. So two questions: 1) Any tips for reading depth? Breaking out to early, or feet brushing the surface are my biggest problems. 2) In a race, is it better to risk a pullout and possible DQ, or just do a streamline off the walls? I feel like I can go almost as far on a good streamline as a pullout, and streamline don't usually have messy outcomes. Thanks!!!! 1 - if you push off deep and push off angled downward, you'll eliminate the early breakout and feet brushing surface thing. the more you practice that, the better you'll get at figuring out how deep you are, etc. 2 - you get to pull your arms all the way to your waist in a pullout. way faster than the hearts you have to make the rest of the way. I say do the pullout every lap! practice it a lot!

I'm just learning these formally (I taught myself a few years ago) and consequently suck at the pullout. I always mess up the timing and I"m almost always too deep, especially from a dive. So two questions: 1) Any tips for reading depth? Breaking out to early, or feet brushing the surface are my biggest problems. 2) In a race, is it better to risk a pullout and possible DQ, or just do a streamline off the walls? I feel like I can go almost as far on a good streamline as a pullout, and streamline don't usually have messy outcomes. Thanks!!!! 1 - if you push off deep and push off angled downward, you'll eliminate the early breakout and feet brushing surface thing. the more you practice that, the better you'll get at figuring out how deep you are, etc. 2 - you get to pull your arms all the way to your waist in a pullout. way faster than the hearts you have to make the rest of the way. I say do the pullout every lap! practice it a lot!