This is my friend Daniel Torres. He has broken several mexican backstroke records. We recently went to film his stroke and realized that he has been swimming backstroke wrong! Chances are a lot of us are doing the same mistakes. So stick around to see how you can improve your backstroke technique.
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Backstroke is not an easy stroke, specially because you don’t see how you are pulling water. On the other three stroke at least you see part of your stroke. Because of this you could go years and years pulling water wrong. This is what happened to Dan.
See at the beginning of the stroke he was pulling water outwards, then extending his arm to far out giving him little leverage. At the end of his stroke he was pulling water inwards. Now even with those mistakes he could swim a 25.9 in the 50 backstroke long course and 56 low in the 100 backstroke long course. That is because he does a lot of things right, but in order to go faster he has to perfect his technique.
After 3 hours of us filming and swimming drills, we made a little bit of progress. We mainly worked on bending the elbow a little bit more. This seemingly small change gave him a better initial angle to pull water and better leverage in the middle and main part of the pull. One of the things he noticed is that it is way easier to swim this way, but it didn’t feel right. That is because he has spent 20 years applying wasted effort while swimming backstroke.
One of the things to note here is that he corrected a little bit his technique while going slow! Chances are that if he were to swim fast he would go back to his old inefficient stroke technique. But he knows that and that is why he will put in the work to fix that. So we will have to wait and see if he brakes those records again in the future. If you want to follow his progress follow him on instagram @danitorressama
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13 сен 2018
