Swim Technique Video Analysis

As a swimmer it’s important to get regular feedback on your technique from a coach who can identify the holes in your stroke. This can be challenging if you train on your own or your coach doesn’t have the time to spend one-on-one with you. This is why we offer stroke analysis to swimmers and triathletes.

What Is Stroke Analysis?

Stroke analysis is when we take a look at you swimming and identify the strengths and weaknesses of your current technique. We provide drills and exercises to fix the weaknesses. This typically improves speed, endurance and smoothness of your stroke. The way it works is you email us a video of you swimming. It should be filmed from above the water (front and side angles) and underwater (front and side angles). We then reply back with recommendations and suggestions on how you can improve your stroke.

Benefits of Stroke Analysis

• Save months of training with incorrect technique so you can start swimming with correct technique today
• Improve your speed by having a national coach identify the weaknesses in your current technique
• Increase stamina and endurance with feedback on where energy is being wasted in the stroke
• Simple advice that can be followed by all levels of swimmers in their training sessions. We don’t complicate swimming.

Filming Your Video Analysis

We recommend using any handheld waterproof camera of reasonable quality. Our favourite is the Kodak Zx3 which films underwater HD videos for under $150.

Example
Below is an example of recent technique analysis we did:

Good:

- Head stays still when facing the bottom
- Looks like you could maintain that pace for good amount of time. Good fitness.
Can work on:
 
- Your feet are too low in the water. Lengthen your neck by tucking your chin back and having your head a bit deeper, this will help raise your legs. The back of your heels should be breaking the surface. Could also be a hip flexor, thigh or ankle flexibility issue. Stretching will help.

- Feet are too far apart in your kick. Bring them closer together so they almost touch each kick and kick a bit smaller. Your kick is used to balance your body more than it is used for propulsion.
- Need more shoulder/upper body rotation. This will help you glide more each stroke so you can conserve energy by travelling forward as you glide, and not just by taking another stroke. 12 kicks / 3 stroke changeover is a good drill for this.
- Pulling too deep, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jTNDVeT8Z4&list=UUDic_JQLVw9JK_iJMyIna8w&feature=plcp
 
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