| Rating Scale: 1=beginner, 2=needs attention,
3=fair, 4=strong, 5=excellent |
| Skill & Clips |
Rating |
Observations |
|
Posture
|
3 |
3.214 Your
posture looks pretty good in terms of the head-chest-hips connection.
As you begin to rotate on every stroke, be sure to maintain that strong
connection, rotating your body as a unit. |
Breathing
|
2 |
5.179 When
you breathe, you press your leading arm straight down into the water.
This does not move you forward. It levers your legs deeper into the
water. It wastes that stroke, and it means you will have to spend
a lot of time and energy yanking your arm out from that depth. |
Rotation
|
2 |
16.964, 17.821
On your non-breathing strokes you are not rotating at all. You should
rotate as far onto your side as you can for each stroke. From the
front view we should see 45° or more of rotation. |
Arms
|
2 |
Extension: 2.929
You get your arm fully extended out front - but when that happens
you should be rotated onto that side. |
| Catch: 3.179
You start your catch by pressing down on the water with your whole
arm and pulling back on your elbow. That makes your catch late and
deep. If you can leave your elbow near the surface while you get your
hand and forearm under it, that will allow you hold the water for
longer during your stroke. |
| Pull: 3.464
Your pull starts deep and pulls your back end deeper into the water
(and you have to kick harder to counteract that). By pulling so late
your hand-forearm "paddle" does not hold the water very
well as it slips toward the surface. |
| Recovery: 22.786
Watch the front and side above-water views with the comments turned
off, and you will see that your arms are not entering the water very
forcefully. Out of the water your hips and core should be snapping
your arms forward into the water. |
Kick
|
3 |
2-Beat: not
evaluated |
| 6-Beat: 11.25
Your kick is fairly compact, but your legs get very deep in the water
because you recover your legs toward the surface using your hamstrings.
This leaves your thigh deep in the water (creating drag), and means
you will kick with a short lever (from the knee down only). |
Other
|
0 |
not evaluated |
