Bilateral breathing

I have been working on bilateral breathing for several months. Now I have found that my stroke has shortened and I am rotating much less. My hands tend to enter the water closer to my head than I would like. Anyone else have a similar experience? I have experienced exactly the same. My stroke gets shorter and my body hardly rotates to my left side at all. I normally breathe to my right and when I do, my body usually starts the rotation from the hips. But when I try biliateral breathing and breathe to the left, it feels like just my neck is rotating and my mouth hardly clears the water. Bilateral breathing is something I only ever do over longer distances. I can't imagine using it while sprinting because it seems to slow me down. Syd

I have been working on bilateral breathing for several months. Now I have found that my stroke has shortened and I am rotating much less. My hands tend to enter the water closer to my head than I would like. Anyone else have a similar experience? I have experienced exactly the same. My stroke gets shorter and my body hardly rotates to my left side at all. I normally breathe to my right and when I do, my body usually starts the rotation from the hips. But when I try biliateral breathing and breathe to the left, it feels like just my neck is rotating and my mouth hardly clears the water. Bilateral breathing is something I only ever do over longer distances. I can't imagine using it while sprinting because it seems to slow me down. Syd