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Endurance Swimming Assessment

Shaena Berlin

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Last Update April 25, 2010

Technique

Rating Scale: 1=beginner, 2=needs attention, 3=fair, 4=strong, 5=excellent
Skill Rating Observations and Video Clips
Posture 4 posture4 10-04-19. Your head position is good, but it appears that your hips and chest are not as strongly connected.
Breathing 4 breathing4 10-04-19. Good breathing - your legs seem to get a little deeper on your breathing cycle.
Rotation 3 rotation3 10-04-19. You could get a little more rotation, which would produce a longer stroke. Correcting you kick may improve your rotation (see below).
Arms 3 Extension: arms3 10-04-19. Pretty good extension, though hand gets high in the water on some strokes.
Front Quadrant Timing: Could use a little more glide before beginning the catch.
Catch: shaena fs uf 2010-04-12 and shaena 2010-04-05
Your hand darts up toward the surface and then sculls outward to get your catch. This motion out to the side can give you a wobble and delays the catch.
Pull: A nice pull once you have your catch - although your hand and forearm are not vertical, you do get some good propulsion early in your stroke (this is more like a sprinter than an endurance swimmer).
Recovery: Excessive hand motion out of the water maybe causes hands to move too much during catch phase
Kick 3 2-Beat: You should learn the 2-beat kick.
6-Beat: kicking3 10-04-19.This kick is effective in terms of its timing, but because it is deep in the water it creates almost as much drag as propulsion. Try to recover more with your glutes and less by bending your knee.
Sighting 0 not evaluated
Drafting 0 not evaluated
T1 0 not evaluated
Other 0 not evaluated

Recommendations

Priority
Recommendation
1
Early Vertical Forearm Catch. Try to minimize outward sculling. Leave your elbow extended out front while you get your hand and forearm under it.
2
Kick with a straight leg - try to recover your legs with a straight knee using your glutes (instead of using your hamstrings to recover by bending your knees).
3
Learn the 2-beat kick.

Critical Swimming Speed (CSS)

Date Yd or M Short Test Long Test CSS CSS/50
Distance Minutes Seconds Distance Minutes Seconds
10/03/15 yd
200
2
49
400
5
50
1.105
:45

Vasa Ergometer CSS (ErgCSS)

Date Door Short Test Long Test Erg
CSS
Erg
CSS/100
Distance Minutes Seconds Distance Minutes Seconds
yy/mm/dd 2
200
na
na
400
na
na
na
na

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