Critique my stroke (video posted)

I don't know if I'm right about this, or whether it's a useful comment, but it seems like your pull and your roll are a little out of phase. Usually when watching an elite swimmer everything seems to smoothly integrate together with a smooth flow. When I watch your roll and pull I see two things going on at the same time instead of one integrated motion. This is probably related to Jonathan's comments about the core, but I don't know if it is because you lack core strength or if you just haven't integrated your stroke together. Or perhaps I'm being thrown off by the fact that you swim with a timing that is a little further toward the catchup end of the spectrum than I'm used to seeing. The thing that really gets me is that usually when I see people with stroke components that don't appear to be integrated they have a really poor dps/spl, but unless that's a short pool you seem to have a pretty good spl count. Dropped elbows also usually cause high spl. I guess we need a better analyst than I to explain this! :dunno: Best to think of my comments as me learning analysis rather than something you should take too seriously.

I don't know if I'm right about this, or whether it's a useful comment, but it seems like your pull and your roll are a little out of phase. Usually when watching an elite swimmer everything seems to smoothly integrate together with a smooth flow. When I watch your roll and pull I see two things going on at the same time instead of one integrated motion. This is probably related to Jonathan's comments about the core, but I don't know if it is because you lack core strength or if you just haven't integrated your stroke together. Or perhaps I'm being thrown off by the fact that you swim with a timing that is a little further toward the catchup end of the spectrum than I'm used to seeing. The thing that really gets me is that usually when I see people with stroke components that don't appear to be integrated they have a really poor dps/spl, but unless that's a short pool you seem to have a pretty good spl count. Dropped elbows also usually cause high spl. I guess we need a better analyst than I to explain this! :dunno: Best to think of my comments as me learning analysis rather than something you should take too seriously.