See clips dated 06-Jun-10

Your kicking and breathing have improved, but you still need to work on the points mentioned earlier. The most important thing right now is to leave your extended arm out front until the recovering arm almost catches up to it. This keeps the weight of at least one arm forward on your body for the entire stroke cycle, which will help with your front-to-back balance, and will make it easier to rotate and get your breathing done with minimal disruption to your stroke. I think you are going to be a great swimmer!

Posture
09-May-10

06-Jun-10

I think your posture is solid but it is hard to tell because of the front-to-back balance issue. Changing the way you kick should help this.

On the final clip your posture looks pretty solid in terms of the head-chest-hips connection, but your head is looking forward instead of down, and that causes you to arch your back, which drops your legs deeper into the water

You are taking too much of your head out of the water.

You are breathing too late in the stroke cycle, and that stalls you in a non-propulsive position. You then press down with your leading arm while breathing, and that does nothing to move you forward.

Your rotation is minimal, but this cannot be corrected until you get your body more parallel to the surface (head down and hips up).

On the final clip you are getting more rotation, but your arm entry and extension near the surface is preventing your upper body from rotating with your hips.

Pretty good extension, but your hand needs to be at shoulder depth at full extension.

On the final clip your hands are too close to the surface at full extension.

Your catch begins too early. If you glide for just a moment at full extension before beginning your catch, it will be much more effective.

On the final clip you are not separating your catch from your pull. Get your hand and forearm under your elbow before you pull back on that elbow. Waiting to begin your pull will leave your arms out front for longer during the stroke cycle, and that alone will make you better balanced and faster.

You have a long pull once you begin your catch.

On the final clip you get a long pull but unfortunately your catch is so deep that your pull pulls your hips deeper into the water.

You are entering your hands too far forward, with your elbows sometimes entering the water first. This levers your upper body upward and sinks your hips.

On the final clip you are entering your hands in front of your head. Enter them to the side and drive them forward (and to shoulder depth).

You kick from the knees, with your legs very deep in the water. This style of kicking probably produces more drag than propulsion.

Your kick is greatly improved. It may not feel like that, but stick with it! You are bending your knees much less and kicking with a straighter leg. Now you need to focus on recovering your leg right to the surface by using your glutes. When that happens (and when you leave the weight of your arms forward for more of the stroke cycle), your front-to-back balance problem will be solved, and you will have much less trouble moving down the pool.