See clips dated 06-Jun-10

Your posture and breathing are improved, but you need to continue to focus on head position when breathing - that is better but it still disrupts your stroke and posture when you lift your head too quickly and/or high out of the water and then tuck your chin towards your chest. Try to focus on rolling your face to the air (with your body rotation) while the top of your head continues to push toward the far end of the pool.

On the catch try to get your hand under your elbow, so that your hand and forearm can press straight back towards your feet, before you being your pull.

On the kick try to recover your leg with your glutes instead of your hamstrings.

Posture
09-May-10

06-Jun-10

Need to work on head alignment and solid connection between head, chest and hips

On the final clip your posture looks improved (especially from the front view), but you need to continue to focus on your head-chest-hip alignment.

Pretty good in terms of how quickly you breathe and how you keep the lower arm extended. But by slightly lifting your head and then snapping your chin back towards your chest you are getting your head out of alignment with your spine - creating a posture problem.

On the final clip your breathing is improved, but you lift your head too quickly and high for some breaths. I did not mention before that one aspect of your breathing that is very good is that you maintain good rhythm while breathing.

Pretty good rotation in terms of the amount and timing - it will become more powerful when the chest-hips connection is stronger.

On the final clip your rotation looks good. From the front view it appears that you are getting 45+ degrees of rotation to each side.

Catch begins a little too early, getting the arm under the body instead of to the side.

On the final clip the catch is earlier, but the wrist is bent too much and remains bent. Try to get your hand under your forearm before pulling back on the elbow - this usually means "popping" the elbow towards the surface before pulling back towards your feet.

Is effective but you lose some traction by pulling under your body because your hand and forearm will slip sideways as your body rotates and you finish your stroke.

Because your wrist remains bend during the pull, you are not pulling with both your hand and forearm.

Very nicely timed, legs stay in the shadow of your body, knee bend is minimal, but can be improved.

On the final clip you are bending your knees too much. If you can focus on recovering your leg toward the surface by engaging your glutes (to lift your whole leg) instead of your hamstrings (to lift only your lower leg), you will be kicking with longer levers - your whole leg instead of just from the knee down, and your kick will be more propulsive.

Posture. Think "belly, neck, chin" every time you leave the wall. That's short for Belly in (to lock you hip and chest blocks and flatten your lower); Neck tall (to link your head to your chest and flatten your upper spine), Chin back toward the spine (to flatten your upper back and neck).