Yet Another Video thread:
After seeing the swimtypes.com site, and being unsure of my classification I got a couple video clips of my stroke last night. Leaving aside the embarrassing swim cap positioning, the sloppy flip turn, and the not streamlined streamline, what are the things I should be working on? This is my 1500 stroke, although I actually went a little faster than I can maintain for 1500.
The first thing that will jump out at you is likely the dropped elbow in the extension phase. If you look carefully I do rotate the elbow up as I move to catch. I'm rather lacking in shoulder flexibility due to shoulder problems I had a few years ago, and straightening out the arm takes effort and rotating the elbow out at full extension bothers my shoulder.
Anyway, without further excuses:
YouTube- LP-end-00018.MTS above water end view
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YouTube- LP-side-00015.MTS underwater side view
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Ok - not that I feel particularly qualified to critique your stroke, but my observation is that you seem to pull wide to the side of the body. I found I got a stronger pull when I concentrated on sweeping my hand in and pulling more down the midline of my body and kind of pulling my body through the water rather than pushing the water back....am I making any sense at all? - Not sure if this would aggravate the shoulder for you though?
Ok - not that I feel particularly qualified to critique your stroke, but my observation is that you seem to pull wide to the side of the body. I found I got a stronger pull when I concentrated on sweeping my hand in and pulling more down the midline of my body and kind of pulling my body through the water rather than pushing the water back....am I making any sense at all? - Not sure if this would aggravate the shoulder for you though?
