Video Review: My 50 and 200 free

Mike (is that it?) There's a lot of good stuff in your stroke mechanics. I particularly appreciate the relaxation you manage to put to it (50m). You definitely kick your best, it helps the velocity more than it harms, and yet, the upper body motion is rather smooth. I'd keep the same stroke rate for the 100m if I was you. You seem to have finished relatively strong, despite.... Your breakouts are kind of strange. And. Em I dreaming or did I see you take a breath on first break out after dive, and on the wrong side (not looking at the competition)? I don't know I may very well be wrong. It's just that the little swimmer next to you came out in front of you by at least a full foot. Maybe your head is just little too high, not well hidden between your shoulders. Your first 25 was done on 14stroke - 18 on way back. About the turn, well you have a piece of information that I don't have. Where you close enough to the wall to be able to perform a huge full squat? If no then look at your last stroke. It was real short. It could have been little longer and more powerful which would have taken you even closer to the wall. Turn mechanics is perfect. Body position although little too shallow was very streamlined. But the breakout wasn't. With better push offs breakouts and managing to come back on 16-17 stroke, you'd probably get this 50 very close if not under 27. - - - I loved your 200. It seems to have felt amazing. Your hand entry catch etc are fine. Very slight dead spot but hey. 15 strokes all the way until 175m. Then the last 25 you seemed to have fired up the kick. I hope you increased the rate as well because you lost 2 strokes (17). That being said,your 200 looks like the first 200 of a 400 though. You showed a lot of talent and control in it, but the splits, the feeling etc suggested that you could have swam at least 5sec faster. There's one thing that bugs me though in your stroke. I had hard time putting the finger on it. First that is because you tend to be late on breathing. Your arm (recovering) goes over your mouth and it makes the analysis of any underlying bigger flaw more difficult. Anyway. The result is that your body alignment is perfectible. You are smart enough to discipline your kick. So hey. The misalignment is contained due to this compact kick. But again mate. At 15stroke per 25, your technique can bring you very far in the ranking already. So I would probably suggest focusing on this breathing aspect and not worry too much about technique. Increase the stroke rate while not loosing your distance per stroke. You appear to be a swimmer that trains on 13-14 stroke per length, manages to book relatively fast sets at slow stroke rate. Then on the rare occasions where you increase the rate your breathing gets in the way and I donno. You probably loose some efficiency. You should try varying your *DPS/SR* ratios little more. You got it now. You have this great distance per stroke. Just like cyclists vary their gear ratio combinations to master the full spectrum you should sometimes swim some longish sets on a 16 stroke regiment (High rate) to improve this aspect.

Mike (is that it?) There's a lot of good stuff in your stroke mechanics. I particularly appreciate the relaxation you manage to put to it (50m). You definitely kick your best, it helps the velocity more than it harms, and yet, the upper body motion is rather smooth. I'd keep the same stroke rate for the 100m if I was you. You seem to have finished relatively strong, despite.... Your breakouts are kind of strange. And. Em I dreaming or did I see you take a breath on first break out after dive, and on the wrong side (not looking at the competition)? I don't know I may very well be wrong. It's just that the little swimmer next to you came out in front of you by at least a full foot. Maybe your head is just little too high, not well hidden between your shoulders. Your first 25 was done on 14stroke - 18 on way back. About the turn, well you have a piece of information that I don't have. Where you close enough to the wall to be able to perform a huge full squat? If no then look at your last stroke. It was real short. It could have been little longer and more powerful which would have taken you even closer to the wall. Turn mechanics is perfect. Body position although little too shallow was very streamlined. But the breakout wasn't. With better push offs breakouts and managing to come back on 16-17 stroke, you'd probably get this 50 very close if not under 27. - - - I loved your 200. It seems to have felt amazing. Your hand entry catch etc are fine. Very slight dead spot but hey. 15 strokes all the way until 175m. Then the last 25 you seemed to have fired up the kick. I hope you increased the rate as well because you lost 2 strokes (17). That being said,your 200 looks like the first 200 of a 400 though. You showed a lot of talent and control in it, but the splits, the feeling etc suggested that you could have swam at least 5sec faster. There's one thing that bugs me though in your stroke. I had hard time putting the finger on it. First that is because you tend to be late on breathing. Your arm (recovering) goes over your mouth and it makes the analysis of any underlying bigger flaw more difficult. Anyway. The result is that your body alignment is perfectible. You are smart enough to discipline your kick. So hey. The misalignment is contained due to this compact kick. But again mate. At 15stroke per 25, your technique can bring you very far in the ranking already. So I would probably suggest focusing on this breathing aspect and not worry too much about technique. Increase the stroke rate while not loosing your distance per stroke. You appear to be a swimmer that trains on 13-14 stroke per length, manages to book relatively fast sets at slow stroke rate. Then on the rare occasions where you increase the rate your breathing gets in the way and I donno. You probably loose some efficiency. You should try varying your *DPS/SR* ratios little more. You got it now. You have this great distance per stroke. Just like cyclists vary their gear ratio combinations to master the full spectrum you should sometimes swim some longish sets on a 16 stroke regiment (High rate) to improve this aspect.