Please critique

So I finally got some video of myself and my son up. This is the first time I'm seeing myself swim, and I'm horrified, lol. My self-critique: Elbows not high enough, not extending arms very well, arms crossing midline a little on extension, and extending hand almost pushing water a little. Please feel free to add anything, and I'd appreciate advice on drills to address my specific weaknesses (and my son's). www.youtube.com/watch www.youtube.com/watch My son's critique: Elbows drop some, he tends to pull a little too much to the outside rather than down the middle, and his left arm tends to go left on extension. Believe it or not he's much faster than the last time I posted video, he's gotten his 25m time down to 26 sec from 45 when the season started. Please add anything. www.youtube.com/watch www.youtube.com/watch Thanks guys.
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  • Well guys, I did a casual 25m in 16 strokes today, the best I've ever done I believe. And it was not one of those glide glide glide until I come to a complete stop type deals either. I did not have anyone recording me, so I'm not sure which areas exactly I improved on, but I must have been doing something better. Things I concentrated on; 1. Fully extending. I found this easier when doing # 2 below. 2. Keeping my wrist and fingers ever so slighly flexed on arm extension. I think someone mentioned this before, but by doing this the water wasn't pushing my arm into a bent position. 3. Keeping my forearm relatively pronated on extension. What I mean is that my forearm is pronated relative to my rotated body, so that it's orientation is just as it would be if I was flat/not rotated. In my mind this might be the single most important thing I did, because I really felt the catch and propulsion much better. Also it seems to control overrotation. 4. Catching a little lower in the water. In other words, my extended hand was deeper in the water than before. 5. Hand entry farther on recovery. This is the change which I'm really curious to see on film. It felt good, but someone might comment that I'm slapping water or something. 6. Forcing myself to swim downhill. One interesting thing that came to my mind while I was experimenting. Previously I had thought of swimming downhill in terms of balance. While this is true, today I thought I would try to pull myself downhill as well. I remembered the comments on my forearm not being perpendicular enough to the pool bottom and that I was creating more lift, so I worked on overcompensating by trying to descend. I'll keep working on it and try to get new film in a few days. Thanks again for the help.
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  • Well guys, I did a casual 25m in 16 strokes today, the best I've ever done I believe. And it was not one of those glide glide glide until I come to a complete stop type deals either. I did not have anyone recording me, so I'm not sure which areas exactly I improved on, but I must have been doing something better. Things I concentrated on; 1. Fully extending. I found this easier when doing # 2 below. 2. Keeping my wrist and fingers ever so slighly flexed on arm extension. I think someone mentioned this before, but by doing this the water wasn't pushing my arm into a bent position. 3. Keeping my forearm relatively pronated on extension. What I mean is that my forearm is pronated relative to my rotated body, so that it's orientation is just as it would be if I was flat/not rotated. In my mind this might be the single most important thing I did, because I really felt the catch and propulsion much better. Also it seems to control overrotation. 4. Catching a little lower in the water. In other words, my extended hand was deeper in the water than before. 5. Hand entry farther on recovery. This is the change which I'm really curious to see on film. It felt good, but someone might comment that I'm slapping water or something. 6. Forcing myself to swim downhill. One interesting thing that came to my mind while I was experimenting. Previously I had thought of swimming downhill in terms of balance. While this is true, today I thought I would try to pull myself downhill as well. I remembered the comments on my forearm not being perpendicular enough to the pool bottom and that I was creating more lift, so I worked on overcompensating by trying to descend. I'll keep working on it and try to get new film in a few days. Thanks again for the help.
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