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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Rob, I think you are completely correct about the arm being too deep. I think with it being so nearly straight elbow position is subtle if not a moot point. If I can adjust to more bend then what my elbow is doing should become more obvious, whether it's right or wrong.
Until I saw this last night I would never have though I was swimming with such a straight arm. Seeing it I wonder if this explains a few things about my rather drastic drop off in speed as distance increases, and why I have to wait before loading my pull, i.e. leverage is really working against me.
Thanks!
Rob, I think you are completely correct about the arm being too deep. I think with it being so nearly straight elbow position is subtle if not a moot point. If I can adjust to more bend then what my elbow is doing should become more obvious, whether it's right or wrong.
Until I saw this last night I would never have though I was swimming with such a straight arm. Seeing it I wonder if this explains a few things about my rather drastic drop off in speed as distance increases, and why I have to wait before loading my pull, i.e. leverage is really working against me.
Thanks!
