Hey for you guys that replied to my thread last week, i really appreciate it, you guys really helped out. I ended up going to the club swim to find out that theyre actually pretty lax. theres no forms to fill out, you just pretty much show up when you want to. The problem is they dont have coaches either, they have a hand full of really good swimmers though. My problem now is, today i went to swim with my schools triathalon club because fridays they get a coach to supervise, and pretty much i had a big wake up call on how badly i needed to work on my stroke. I'm going to research a bit online, it's just, im a bit discouraged cause it really sucked my first week in the club swimming sport because pretty much everyone there swam high school varsity or college. Even in the very last lane i found myself getting in peoples way a lot and having to stop each time i got to the other end of the pool to let everyone pass me, and it was pretty embarrassing. I really want to get better though i just dont know what direction to take. I dont want to keep going to club swimming and swim the 4000 or whatever meters or yards that swim with the wrong technique and get like muscle memory, i want to do this right mainly because i really want to get in shape. I know this is getting kind of long so ill just end it here but if any of you who are still reading this can help me out i would REALLY appreciate some guidance. thanks again guys.
oh and i almost forgot, the first day in the club swim the main dude there told me that you know he'd help me out to just message him on facebook and i did, and the next day he pretty much told me that he read the message and just didnt feel like replying, and since tuesday i havent heard back from him. So it's attitudes like that, thats making it hard for me to feel comfortable asking for help.
Crozen,
Find someone with a decent camera that can take video. Have them video your swimming from at least head on and from the side. Try and have them capture a full length and include the turn. Swim each stroke at varying speeds, slow and controlled, moderate and sprint. Also try to get video of you just kicking, preferably in streamline without a board or fins. Make sure that you swim with your typical technique, don't try to pretty it up for the camera.
Post it on youtube and link it in this post. That will give you the best chance to get guidance based upon your current technique.
There are a ton of drills out there and they can all benefit you in some way but drills are meant to try and correct/reinforce certain faults and a lot of drills, if done repeatedly can create undesired changes in an existing stroke that is not currently experiencing that specific fault.
Crozen,
Find someone with a decent camera that can take video. Have them video your swimming from at least head on and from the side. Try and have them capture a full length and include the turn. Swim each stroke at varying speeds, slow and controlled, moderate and sprint. Also try to get video of you just kicking, preferably in streamline without a board or fins. Make sure that you swim with your typical technique, don't try to pretty it up for the camera.
Post it on youtube and link it in this post. That will give you the best chance to get guidance based upon your current technique.
There are a ton of drills out there and they can all benefit you in some way but drills are meant to try and correct/reinforce certain faults and a lot of drills, if done repeatedly can create undesired changes in an existing stroke that is not currently experiencing that specific fault.
