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As was mentioned before, work your turns. You should be coming up at or past the solid section of the lane markers and instead you are cmoing up about half a body length behind. But you did a great job of consistent turns, you came up in the same place every time. Now just work on pushing off just a little harder and holding a tighter streamline off the wall. Compare your breakouts with the girl in lane 4 and you will see what I mean, she was breaking out about 2-3 feet farther out than you and that was really the difference on each lap. A good race over all, you held a solid pace thruout. Paul

I just uploaded my 500 swim too. www.youtube.com/watch If you watch it, don't get too excited when you see that I am out front by a little bit for the first few lengths...it doesn't last. :doh: In my defense...I didn't slow down...she sped up. It's the same girl from the 200freestyle. I am in the same lane as before-lane 3.

Morgan, with your 500, no worries - that situation happens to me all the time. We call it getting "EB'd." A teammate, we call him Ellis, spends most of a 500 1-2-3 bodylengths behind me, then starts coming on strong ~350-400 and ends up passing me on the last 50. After this happened several times, I become Ellis' *Bizzatch*, and thereon, we refer to the situation as being EB'd ;). I won't :dedhorse: about your turns, but it is a great (motivational) example of how important turns are in these events. Meters, esp. long course, you have that girl! Question for you - left arm... does that arm tend to cross over toward your center axis when you breathe? Its hard to tell from the distance, but when you breathe to the right, it looks like your body started to twist a bit toward your right side - which would be caused by a hand out of position underwater. If that is happening, correcting that could be a great source of time!

You had a cheerleader taking the film. You held in well. I still like to see the kick in the water in longer events. Did I notice when the hands exited you did not exit cleanly? Was the finish short on most strokes? Slapping the water with the hand on the entry? Did I see wind milling? Your head slightly high? Do you need more streamline coming off the turns?

Good race! You out swam your competition, and that's impressive. Many have said to work on your turns, but specificly how should you do that? I recommend first to keep doing what you're doing well. Swimming strong, not giving up, these are good qualities. It was also good to hear the chearing in the stands from the video, the emotion was there, for sure. So the turns... This takes more practice... A good turn isn't too tight to the wall, ultimately covering a farther distance. You want to be flipped and in a nearly-full extension in the other direction before your feet touch the wall. So the actual turn happens a little sooner and the forward motion keeps your body moving to the wall. One trick to do this is initiating the turn a little deeper with your head and torso, this gives you more leverage to flip your legs over, and allows your body to cover more distance. The other part is to land on the wall with your legs a little more extended, think about a basketball shot, you don't bend your knees all the way before jumping, does that make sense? At maximum a 90 degree bend, but a little more extended is okay, that way you cut the distance of the pool. Happy swimming,

We have another 2 meets this weekend..so I will hopefully have a chance to showcase some of these hints I have been trying to incorporate into my practicing. Unfortunatly, I am in a situation where our practices are a lot of swim swim swim and not a lot of guidance or review of what we are doing right or wrong or how we could improve or push ourselves farther. I have been working primarily on my turns this week and trying to breathe a little lower to the water--but I am not sure I know exactly what I am doing in terms of head position in general. Thanks again!

It would be better if we had some better clips of your swimming say a side view, and head on view so we can really watch your stroke. Both those clips are too far away. When I downloaded to analyse your stroke it was pretty well blurred. We have another 2 meets this weekend..so I will hopefully have a chance to showcase some of these hints I have been trying to incorporate into my practicing. Unfortunatly, I am in a situation where our practices are a lot of swim swim swim and not a lot of guidance or review of what we are doing right or wrong or how we could improve or push ourselves farther. I have been working primarily on my turns this week and trying to breathe a little lower to the water--but I am not sure I know exactly what I am doing in terms of head position in general. Thanks again!

You might want to consider working on your power off the wall, in addition to technique things everyone else has mentioned. One thing I have been trying to do lately is to concentrate on pushing really hard off the wall on every turn, regardless of the pace. This can make those junk yardage workouts worthwhile. Swim into the wall, turn, push for all your are worth and then SDK and streamline out. Spending a small amount time in the gym working the quads, running stairs or hills would also help give you more power off the wall. Good luck this weekend!

on ur start, your hand go over your head and kind of arc into the water. They are supposed to be going from under to give you upwards momentum. You actually swim faster than the other chick, but you were getting raped on the turns. She came out half a body length in front off of every turn.

Thank you for posting the videos. The fly is a dream.:agree: Regards, VB