Got a camera in Guam last week to record some fish and stuff. Now that I'm back home I can put it to better use and try to improve my style. Here are several clips, two from yesterday and one from today.
My left hand crosses into my right side and my right hand goes way outside at mid-stroke. Not sure if this is a balance compensation but I havent been able to correct it yet
2009_1102i0007.flv video by C6C6CH3vo - Photobucket
Steve,
You seem to be improving with each swim, keep it up!!!!
A couple of points:
1) On your start, you should concentrate of driving your shoulders up and out, it seems that it's more down and out so you enter the water at a very steep angle.
2) For your 200, you obviously have more speed available if you are going 27.7 for the 50, so you need to focus on establishing a faster turn over for your arms. In the 27.7sec 50, your stroke cycle rate (the time you took to take 1 pull with each arm) was 1.21 seconds but in the 200 it was a 2.26 seconds. That is 86% slower. Using myself as a comparison, my stroke cycle rate for a 50 is only slightly faster than yours at about 1.1 seconds per cycle but my cycle rate for a 200 is only about 28% slower than my 50 rate at 1.47 seconds per cycle. Now what does all this mean? It means you need to establish a faster turnover rate immediately in your 200. A 27.7 50 free, assuming sufficient aerobic capacity and swim training, should equate to around a 2:20-2:25 200 free. You can do it, you pull good water with each stroke and you maintain a good body line while you swim, just need to move your arms faster and keep everything else the same.
Steve,
You seem to be improving with each swim, keep it up!!!!
A couple of points:
1) On your start, you should concentrate of driving your shoulders up and out, it seems that it's more down and out so you enter the water at a very steep angle.
2) For your 200, you obviously have more speed available if you are going 27.7 for the 50, so you need to focus on establishing a faster turn over for your arms. In the 27.7sec 50, your stroke cycle rate (the time you took to take 1 pull with each arm) was 1.21 seconds but in the 200 it was a 2.26 seconds. That is 86% slower. Using myself as a comparison, my stroke cycle rate for a 50 is only slightly faster than yours at about 1.1 seconds per cycle but my cycle rate for a 200 is only about 28% slower than my 50 rate at 1.47 seconds per cycle. Now what does all this mean? It means you need to establish a faster turnover rate immediately in your 200. A 27.7 50 free, assuming sufficient aerobic capacity and swim training, should equate to around a 2:20-2:25 200 free. You can do it, you pull good water with each stroke and you maintain a good body line while you swim, just need to move your arms faster and keep everything else the same.
