I took some video of a friend including this clip of his breaststroke. Unfortunately I don't swim it much myself and haven't studied it much or sought out good videos with model strokes. Could one of you breaststroke experts comment on his stroke?
www.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch (same video slow motion)
Also, do you know of any good youtube videos that show good breaststroke relatively close up? Most of the race videos are taken from too great a distance to see a lot of detail.
Thanks!
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I am looking forwarding to reading Ande's comments, but for now...
He is dropping his elbows. The insweep of the pull should be a bicep curl with the elbows not coming back past the shoulders. My college coach used to have us swim *** pull with an innertube under our arms so we couldn't drop our elbows back.
Also, his elbows are breaking the surface of the water during what should be his insweep - he is dragging a lot of air under the surface from his elbows.
His kick is a hair late. The arm extension should take place at the same time the kick is finishing.
Two links I like:
http://www.breaststroke.info/www.swimming.jp/.../kitajima_door.html
I am looking forwarding to reading Ande's comments, but for now...
He is dropping his elbows. The insweep of the pull should be a bicep curl with the elbows not coming back past the shoulders. My college coach used to have us swim *** pull with an innertube under our arms so we couldn't drop our elbows back.
Also, his elbows are breaking the surface of the water during what should be his insweep - he is dragging a lot of air under the surface from his elbows.
His kick is a hair late. The arm extension should take place at the same time the kick is finishing.
Two links I like:
http://www.breaststroke.info/www.swimming.jp/.../kitajima_door.html
