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!
I agree with the other's critiques.I finally saw the feet on his kick,and that is a big problem,he just doesn't have much external rotation at the ankles.Ideally,at the initiation of the kick the toes should point at the sides of the pool.His problem may be a lack of flexibility,or it may be from rushing the kick.I'd suggest doing kicking only working on getting as much external rotation as possible before the kick.If flexibility is the issue,try gently rotating the ankles with his hands several times a day(or if it doesn't hurt too much try sitting on the ground with knees folded under and feet rotated out) and also try keeping the knees farther apart at the recovery position so as to get the feet closer to pointing at the walls.On the pull out he has too much bending at the waist and should use his knees more in the dolphin kick.
I agree with the other's critiques.I finally saw the feet on his kick,and that is a big problem,he just doesn't have much external rotation at the ankles.Ideally,at the initiation of the kick the toes should point at the sides of the pool.His problem may be a lack of flexibility,or it may be from rushing the kick.I'd suggest doing kicking only working on getting as much external rotation as possible before the kick.If flexibility is the issue,try gently rotating the ankles with his hands several times a day(or if it doesn't hurt too much try sitting on the ground with knees folded under and feet rotated out) and also try keeping the knees farther apart at the recovery position so as to get the feet closer to pointing at the walls.On the pull out he has too much bending at the waist and should use his knees more in the dolphin kick.
