[Feedback Friday] What To Do When Your Legs Sink & Breathing Is Difficult 

Nice clip thanks Brent. Good to see you mention the momentum of the head turn related to catch timing.

Helpful explanation of how not swimming front quadrant can keep hips rotated during pull, disrupting the power of the pull.

Thanks, I would like to see more of these feedback video's.

That follow through at the end of the front side of his kick (down on freestyle, up in back stroke) actually produces negative thrust. That can better be seen if you have hands on the edge of the pool and are doing the flutter kick there rather than when actually in motion. The bubble plumes are a huge give away in that. A similar thing I have seen is some swimmers who can push bubble plumes down to the bottom of a 5 foot deep pool, which means that the power part of the kick is all going down and not back. Going pigeon toed is another huge benefit for flutter and dolphin kick. After seeing that in one of Gary Hall Sr's videos of the Israeli swimmer Marcus some one.... and one other swimmer, that idea changed my kicking forever. Also interesting in that video was one young woman who generated more thrust from her back side dolphin kick than she did on the front side dolphin kick.... Not positive why his feet and hips seemed to be a bit low. The kick may have been a small part of that. He did seem to engage the core fairly well for his full stroke, but rotation timing may not have been totally correct. For sure, catch and high elbow could use some work. He does lift his head a bit high to breathe. Interesting that for some of his video, he was breathing every 3rd arm stroke, and for some of the rest, he was gallop style, every other stroke. Interesting point with the gallop style, with the quick 1, 2, then slight pause, for half the cycle, you have both arms in front quadrant, and in second half of the cycle, the arms are not in the front quadrant.

My swim coach here in Germany called that mistake a windmill swim, missing that reach- out phase (in front) not straightening over the whole length...

Always great video

Thanks for your sharing

Your videos are awesome 👍😊

Thanks for the informative video

I respectfully add that due to his low elbow catch - he is pushing "down" on the water - instead of pushing "back" . So his upper body goes up - and his legs/hips go down.

Thanks Brenton - pretty much the same things you’ve been telling me via the stroke analysis- nice to see I’m not the only one working on these areas.

I found drill my hands deeper could make me move towards farther and lighter

My legs stay up on the water when I use the kick board. Without the kick board I have trouble making my arms stay up on the water to swim Without the kick board. I tumble forward not backward when I try to swim Without the kick board. Why.

Dolphin kick video?

what is the link for your video membership?

I believe the word 'stroke' should be changed to discourage from stroking water.