hey, i want to know about my fly. i have some vids so you can give me some tips. also please note that in the IM vid i didn't turn hard because i was jsut preserving my rank, its in the next day that i haul(didn't wanna blow myself out in prelims ya know).
www.youtube.com/watch for the 200 IM in SCM
www.youtube.com/watch for my all out 50 fly, well 95% it was still prelims after all.
any advice would be appreciated. thanks
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Without getting into technique, I would say the number one thing to work on is streamline. Arms need to be tight on top of each other, head tucked between the shoulders.
Also your breakouts (transition period between underwater and surface swimming). Your head pops up every time which just kills what speed you had left out of the turns.
Turns are very slow, you need to work on snapping your shoulders and hips around. That is at least 1/4 second per turn that you can shave off.
Nice arms. Head position is a little high, also looks like your lifting your head a little to late, try to start to lift your head as your hands start to press down during your pull.
Paul
Ive never ehard the head comment. Never thoguht about that. I'll try to get a vid of me doing fly from the side, run a video of say Michael Phelps next to it at same speed and see how early it comes up. i just thought that that observation was unique.
Also is i t just me or do you all have to cut your breaststroke pullouts nearly in half during the IM because of lack of breath. I tried pushing it to my full pullout things started going black and purple, and static, i had to surface and my entire race was screwed up after that.
Without getting into technique, I would say the number one thing to work on is streamline. Arms need to be tight on top of each other, head tucked between the shoulders.
Also your breakouts (transition period between underwater and surface swimming). Your head pops up every time which just kills what speed you had left out of the turns.
Turns are very slow, you need to work on snapping your shoulders and hips around. That is at least 1/4 second per turn that you can shave off.
Nice arms. Head position is a little high, also looks like your lifting your head a little to late, try to start to lift your head as your hands start to press down during your pull.
Paul
Ive never ehard the head comment. Never thoguht about that. I'll try to get a vid of me doing fly from the side, run a video of say Michael Phelps next to it at same speed and see how early it comes up. i just thought that that observation was unique.
Also is i t just me or do you all have to cut your breaststroke pullouts nearly in half during the IM because of lack of breath. I tried pushing it to my full pullout things started going black and purple, and static, i had to surface and my entire race was screwed up after that.
