The Backstroke Lane

All right, here's a newer video of my backstroke in a meet--my 200 back from a meet 2 weeks ago. I'm the one doing the gutter start. I've got a video of my 200 back from a meet last weekend that I'll post sometime this weekend, too, along with my 100 and 50. h768L4Y-Nu8 A few things I noticed: My turnover is still pretty slow. My big problem with training to correct that is that my turnover rate feels much faster in my head than it appears. During this race, for example, I thought my arms were moving much faster than they actually were. That perception gap is something I'm struggling to correct. In the back half of the race, I noticed that some of my breakouts aren't timed correctly--I'm not making a smooth transition from streamline to the first full pull cycle, as one hand is popping out of the water. My kick still needs some work, since I should be getting a good deal more power from it. Kicking in streamline, I get a good deal of speed and power, but it doesn't really transfer over to swimming backstroke. I don't have a sissy kick when I swim by any means, but it should be stronger. On a side note, you don't see much splash from my kick because my feet rarely point up, as I'm quite the hip rotator. Let me have it--what do y'all think? I'm trying to cut about 7-8 more seconds from my 200 by Nationals (I've already dropped ~6 so far this season), so I'm really trying to get the kinks ironed out now. Like I said, I'll post another video of my 200 this weekend, along with videos of my 100 and 50, so I'll have the full gamut. Thanks, guys!

All right, here's a newer video of my backstroke in a meet--my 200 back from a meet 2 weeks ago. I'm the one doing the gutter start. I've got a video of my 200 back from a meet last weekend that I'll post sometime this weekend, too, along with my 100 and 50. h768L4Y-Nu8 A few things I noticed: My turnover is still pretty slow. My big problem with training to correct that is that my turnover rate feels much faster in my head than it appears. During this race, for example, I thought my arms were moving much faster than they actually were. That perception gap is something I'm struggling to correct. In the back half of the race, I noticed that some of my breakouts aren't timed correctly--I'm not making a smooth transition from streamline to the first full pull cycle, as one hand is popping out of the water. My kick still needs some work, since I should be getting a good deal more power from it. Kicking in streamline, I get a good deal of speed and power, but it doesn't really transfer over to swimming backstroke. I don't have a sissy kick when I swim by any means, but it should be stronger. On a side note, you don't see much splash from my kick because my feet rarely point up, as I'm quite the hip rotator. Let me have it--what do y'all think? I'm trying to cut about 7-8 more seconds from my 200 by Nationals (I've already dropped ~6 so far this season), so I'm really trying to get the kinks ironed out now. Like I said, I'll post another video of my 200 this weekend, along with videos of my 100 and 50, so I'll have the full gamut. Thanks, guys!