Analysing my swimming | BIG IMPROVEMENTS required
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- It's not often that you get to see yourself swim and boy oh boy was that an eye opener! some major work needed at the front of my stroke and potentially the back (so basically all of it), any tips let me know, any unhelpful comments will be deleted because I'm petty. Thanks so much for watching!!!
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Not an expert swimmer but these are some observations that might help you.
1) Head tilt. You're facing a bit forward, your overall position might be improved by keeping you sight to 45 deg (3:14)
2) Your catch is late. The catch starts after you glide/extend. What's happening is you drop your arm and catch midway (I think you mentioned that as well). You'll clearly see this when you paused your video at 3:30. Look at where you started the catch at 3:35.
4) Your left elbow is dropping, you'll see the entire arm drop while still breathing at 3:29, 3:50 and 4:00. Ideally you want to keep that straight and close to the surface as you extend just before you make your catch.
5) Your rotation on the non-breathing side is happening on the shoulders only. Again you'll notice this when you paused your video at 3:44. But more clearly at the 5:00 mark. It's not necessarily the S pull but rotating from your hips will get you that better pull and exit. This might address your entire arm being too wide as well.
Good luck!
Thank you so much, they are some very good observations!! Somebody else mentioned about my head position & that would make sense as I get a stiff neck & lower back pain sometimes too - I assume because of the lack of rotation & instead twisting my shoulders a lot. Definitely a lot to work on, it’s going to be tough finding a whole new stroke but we will get there!!
I think you swim beautifully, most of swimming videos of triathletes I watched were not that good. Your amount of knee bend looks fine to me. Like Brenton Ford the founder of Effortless Swimming once said when we analyse our swimmimg video footage, we're the hardest critics ourself.
Aww thank you, that’s very kind of you!
I think I swim super smooth and then I watch a video of myself 😂😂 Good luck with the improvements 👌
I honestly said to Greg, there’s no point filming me, I’ve cracked swimming 😂😂😂 humble pie isn’t all that tasty!
Hi! I'm not a very good swimmer, but I've watched quite a lot of swim analysis videos. Apart from what you said what I noticed was: Yes, you're leg work is good, but I do think you're hips are sitting still a bit low. You have a bit of an arch in your lower back and sometimes there is a little pool forming which means unnecessary drag. The reason for this might be that you are looking too much forward. Everybody is different of course, but from what I know, you should be looking no more than 45 degrees in front, rather less or even straight down depending on your personal anatomy. What is your head position like when you breathe?
That is a very very interesting point, I get neck pain & people have told me in the past that I look too far forward but I’ve never thought of that as having an effect on the overall body position, I will have a play around with that when I’m next at the pool. It’s difficult because if you’re looking so far down then it’s harder to sight in open water? Because it’s more of a big neck movement? Really helpful tip, thank you!