Video technique review

Hi mate, thanks for the clips There are good things with your stroke. I tried to find faulty undisciplined kicks, couldn't find much of these. You use a 6beat that is relatively compact and seems efficient. My focus went immediately, well on the first clip, on this left hand cross over distraction. To me, the fact that you cross is a distraction more than anything else. On the third clip, you almost corrected it and I am not sure that it had any impact on SR or DPS (therefore no impact on speed). OK. So where did my focus go. Not that easy to explain. OK. Let me try. The mission given to each of your arm (that includes the hand) is to be careful in taking a significant catch, then accelerate the hand so that most of the power or torque or strength be put during the second half of the pulling. Right now, that just doesn't seem to happen. Often we look at world class swimmer footage and think that they glide in the front doing nothing. It's often a false impression. They do starting preparing their catch very slowly. What I mean in using the word *Careful* is that upon entry, you hand HAS to carefully find the ideal catch position, that is well aligned relative to the shoulder, with the elbow slightly bent. Bare in mind that you want to use both the big lats muscles AND your own body weight to pull harder when you're ready to apply force (torque or power -- whatever). This picture here shows your right hand path upon entry. First: pic20.picturetrail.com/.../377199209.jpg So far, not that bad although by the look of your it, arm over extended, I'd say you're already late in preparing for the high elbow catch. But it ain't so bad so far. Now look at this one: pic20.picturetrail.com/.../377199144.jpg Too wide. Instead of being regrouped along with the core body/lats etc (similar to a group of US Marines ready to attack), your right arm ends up isolated far out in the right field. Being alone like this, he can't count on heavy artillery support (power coming from the lats and body rotation). I believe you may be doing this to counter balance your breathing action. The left hand. GBrain has mentioned cross over so I won't comment this. First it's worth nothing that your two arms show different flaws. It's normal since you always breathe the same side (or so it seems). On your left arm pulling, you're late on catch. I see 2 dimensions only (one is missing). First a glide in the front then a sudden (way too sudden) acceleration. This is what I call being late on catch. Too long of a glide, no more time to be *Careful* in performing a your catch. The missing dimension is therefore this acceleration that should begin very slowly upon hand entry. You're a very good swimmer already. This problem is common to a lot of master swimmers, it probably comes from the will to swim best possible distance per stroke. This will often translate into wait time in the front. 1-arm drill with the other arm on the side is amazingly efficient in improving this. If I was you, especially if you've been swimming this way for long, I would book kilos of this. Often, going 100m per arm is not overdoing it. Then gradually your brain will connect little more with the only arm pulling. The absence of contribution from the other arm will FORCE you to find a smarter pulling pattern. Also, you should consider breathing both sides. I am not talking about bilateral breathing here. Just to breathe sometimes left, sometimes right. One arm drill should be done breathing sometimes same side, sometimes opposite side of the arm that is pulling.

Hi mate, thanks for the clips There are good things with your stroke. I tried to find faulty undisciplined kicks, couldn't find much of these. You use a 6beat that is relatively compact and seems efficient. My focus went immediately, well on the first clip, on this left hand cross over distraction. To me, the fact that you cross is a distraction more than anything else. On the third clip, you almost corrected it and I am not sure that it had any impact on SR or DPS (therefore no impact on speed). OK. So where did my focus go. Not that easy to explain. OK. Let me try. The mission given to each of your arm (that includes the hand) is to be careful in taking a significant catch, then accelerate the hand so that most of the power or torque or strength be put during the second half of the pulling. Right now, that just doesn't seem to happen. Often we look at world class swimmer footage and think that they glide in the front doing nothing. It's often a false impression. They do starting preparing their catch very slowly. What I mean in using the word *Careful* is that upon entry, you hand HAS to carefully find the ideal catch position, that is well aligned relative to the shoulder, with the elbow slightly bent. Bare in mind that you want to use both the big lats muscles AND your own body weight to pull harder when you're ready to apply force (torque or power -- whatever). This picture here shows your right hand path upon entry. First: pic20.picturetrail.com/.../377199209.jpg So far, not that bad although by the look of your it, arm over extended, I'd say you're already late in preparing for the high elbow catch. But it ain't so bad so far. Now look at this one: pic20.picturetrail.com/.../377199144.jpg Too wide. Instead of being regrouped along with the core body/lats etc (similar to a group of US Marines ready to attack), your right arm ends up isolated far out in the right field. Being alone like this, he can't count on heavy artillery support (power coming from the lats and body rotation). I believe you may be doing this to counter balance your breathing action. The left hand. GBrain has mentioned cross over so I won't comment this. First it's worth nothing that your two arms show different flaws. It's normal since you always breathe the same side (or so it seems). On your left arm pulling, you're late on catch. I see 2 dimensions only (one is missing). First a glide in the front then a sudden (way too sudden) acceleration. This is what I call being late on catch. Too long of a glide, no more time to be *Careful* in performing a your catch. The missing dimension is therefore this acceleration that should begin very slowly upon hand entry. You're a very good swimmer already. This problem is common to a lot of master swimmers, it probably comes from the will to swim best possible distance per stroke. This will often translate into wait time in the front. 1-arm drill with the other arm on the side is amazingly efficient in improving this. If I was you, especially if you've been swimming this way for long, I would book kilos of this. Often, going 100m per arm is not overdoing it. Then gradually your brain will connect little more with the only arm pulling. The absence of contribution from the other arm will FORCE you to find a smarter pulling pattern. Also, you should consider breathing both sides. I am not talking about bilateral breathing here. Just to breathe sometimes left, sometimes right. One arm drill should be done breathing sometimes same side, sometimes opposite side of the arm that is pulling.