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!
The middle image that haffathot posted above, and what I saw in the video I looked it: when he shoots hands in front, before he initiates outsweep, his thumbs are up. I recommend changing hand position so that thumbs are down before initiating outsweep. Hands together still form a V, but thumbs are at bottom of V. Basically, just flip hands over (they will only flip in one direction - in, with thumbs down - from where they are now). Think of placing backs of hands together rather than palms, then ease up to form the V shape with only thumbs together.
Regards, VB
The middle image that haffathot posted above, and what I saw in the video I looked it: when he shoots hands in front, before he initiates outsweep, his thumbs are up. I recommend changing hand position so that thumbs are down before initiating outsweep. Hands together still form a V, but thumbs are at bottom of V. Basically, just flip hands over (they will only flip in one direction - in, with thumbs down - from where they are now). Think of placing backs of hands together rather than palms, then ease up to form the V shape with only thumbs together.
Regards, VB
