My first IM event in 19 years

You know, I couldn't see you that well in the video. You were too far away. I missed watching your IM in person because I was in the warm down pool. I did see your 50 fly and 50 free though and your 25s. I think your fly looks great! In both fly and free, you have a nice relaxed recovery over the water. Nice undulation. You look like a natural. Could maybe flatten it out just a touch and add some SDKs. From what I could tell, you do have that old fashioned BR. But who needs evilstroke for more than a 25 anyway? :laugh2: Get out as far as you can with a whomping dolphin kick on the pullout so you minimize how many strokes you actually have to take. You could probably work the turns better. Gotta blast off each turn. Yeah, I agree. One thing that was very weak in that meet was hitting a tight streamline. I was getting good push offs with my legs but I was killing my speed with lousy streamlines. I've been trying to work on that in practice but I'm still just trying to survive an entire practice so that's not going so well :mad: but I'm trying to hit as many tight streamlines as I can off the starts and turns. I'm swimming the 50 free, 100 IM and 50 Fly at the Carol Chidester Memorial Swim Series at UMBC this Saturday so we'll see if I have improved my technique any. I hope so as I am going for our teams record in 40-44 50 Fly. Just need to knock another .6 off and I've got it :woot: 50 Free will take a small miracle to manage as that is over a second. And 100 IM will require dropping over 2 seconds so that will be a definate challenge. Paul

You know, I couldn't see you that well in the video. You were too far away. I missed watching your IM in person because I was in the warm down pool. I did see your 50 fly and 50 free though and your 25s. I think your fly looks great! In both fly and free, you have a nice relaxed recovery over the water. Nice undulation. You look like a natural. Could maybe flatten it out just a touch and add some SDKs. From what I could tell, you do have that old fashioned BR. But who needs evilstroke for more than a 25 anyway? :laugh2: Get out as far as you can with a whomping dolphin kick on the pullout so you minimize how many strokes you actually have to take. You could probably work the turns better. Gotta blast off each turn. Yeah, I agree. One thing that was very weak in that meet was hitting a tight streamline. I was getting good push offs with my legs but I was killing my speed with lousy streamlines. I've been trying to work on that in practice but I'm still just trying to survive an entire practice so that's not going so well :mad: but I'm trying to hit as many tight streamlines as I can off the starts and turns. I'm swimming the 50 free, 100 IM and 50 Fly at the Carol Chidester Memorial Swim Series at UMBC this Saturday so we'll see if I have improved my technique any. I hope so as I am going for our teams record in 40-44 50 Fly. Just need to knock another .6 off and I've got it :woot: 50 Free will take a small miracle to manage as that is over a second. And 100 IM will require dropping over 2 seconds so that will be a definate challenge. Paul