I'm a mop swimmer and I can say that while we have stroke errors, they're nowhere near as bad as you claim.
Again, the talented folks look at slower swimmers and assume it's all technique flaws. It's not.
Put it this way, if I tied one of your hands to your waist so you could only swim with one arm, which obviously destroys your normal technique, you would still swim not too far off your speed which I am assuming is a front of the pack. If it were all technique, you would drop to middle of pack or back of pack the moment I did that.
Furthermore, I can attest to the fact that I took a swim a video class with a high level swim coach from Santa Clara who coaches Olympians. He videoed 13 of us and reviewed them with us in a group class. One of the girls in the class who is swimming a 1: 58 per 100 had one of the best Strokes in the entire group, clearly better than mine, but I was going a full 42 seconds per hundred faster than she was. She should be crushing me if it were all technique.
Again, the talented folks look at slower swimmers and assume it's all technique flaws. It's not.
Put it this way, if I tied one of your hands to your waist so you could only swim with one arm, which obviously destroys your normal technique, you would still swim not too far off your speed which I am assuming is a front of the pack. If it were all technique, you would drop to middle of pack or back of pack the moment I did that.
Furthermore, I can attest to the fact that I took a swim a video class with a high level swim coach from Santa Clara who coaches Olympians. He videoed 13 of us and reviewed them with us in a group class. One of the girls in the class who is swimming a 1: 58 per 100 had one of the best Strokes in the entire group, clearly better than mine, but I was going a full 42 seconds per hundred faster than she was. She should be crushing me if it were all technique.