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!!!!
I'm going to use this thread to ask another question about the pullout. I'm not a very good breaststroker although I am trying to improve. I notice that as I am recovering my arms and just before I kick I seem to slow way down, almost to a stop, then I kick and squirt away again. It's almost like the movement of my hands and arms as they go beneath my chest is causing this. My legs are still in streamline when I see this, just before I start the kick cycle. How can I eliminate this slowdown?
I'm going to use this thread to ask another question about the pullout. I'm not a very good breaststroker although I am trying to improve. I notice that as I am recovering my arms and just before I kick I seem to slow way down, almost to a stop, then I kick and squirt away again. It's almost like the movement of my hands and arms as they go beneath my chest is causing this. My legs are still in streamline when I see this, just before I start the kick cycle. How can I eliminate this slowdown?
