Just swam a short course meet this past weekend. I'm providing a couple of links to my 50 fly and 50 ***. If you can make anything out, I'd appreciate any critical feedback on either of them. I think my fly is still a little too "wavy." Don't know what to think about breaststroke as I'm still learning it. I swam the fly in :24.80 and the *** in :33.53 (these are yds). I'm the one in the yellow "smiley face" cap.
50yd fly
www.youtube.com/watch
50yd ***
www.youtube.com/watch
I also swam 100yd free, 100yd fly, and 50 free, but don't want to share any of those as I had goggle problems on all three. Thanks in advance.
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Starting advice: In order to learn to have your body enter the water in one spot, our coaches would drill us by holding a pole or kickboard at a reasonable distance from the blocks. Our goal was to leap out over the object and avoid touching it with any part of our bodies. If you're working out alone try using a swim noodle floating. Best to work on starting in the deep end though as your over compensation may lead sto excessively deep starts to begin with.
As to the track start vs. grab start, I prefer the grab, but there are many swimmers much better than I who use one or the other.
Hope that helps. I have no other advice on the strokes that hasn't been given. Your fly time was faster than mine, and my successes were almost always start and turn-based rather than stroke-based.
Starting advice: In order to learn to have your body enter the water in one spot, our coaches would drill us by holding a pole or kickboard at a reasonable distance from the blocks. Our goal was to leap out over the object and avoid touching it with any part of our bodies. If you're working out alone try using a swim noodle floating. Best to work on starting in the deep end though as your over compensation may lead sto excessively deep starts to begin with.
As to the track start vs. grab start, I prefer the grab, but there are many swimmers much better than I who use one or the other.
Hope that helps. I have no other advice on the strokes that hasn't been given. Your fly time was faster than mine, and my successes were almost always start and turn-based rather than stroke-based.
