FindinFreestyle wrote:
I hate micro management, but I'll try a little. Deep hands are good, but I think you might be going a bit too deep. So you never really get the power of EVF and those deep hands at the end of your almost fully extended arms while in the front (quadrant) are really hard to pull through, so they go a little slower, and make your kick timing just a touch early. You're creating a lot of force, but not necessarily propulsion, at the front of your stroke, which delays getting to the finish, where you really could create a lot of propulsion from your force.
One arm drill* and Pulling without a buoy could help with this, as could simply being aware of it. You've got some decent fundamentals so you should be a able to tweak some specifics without throwing yourself out of whack too badly.
*I prefer one arm with the non pulling arm at the side, and breathing away from the puling arm, not the guppy challenge arm out front version.
How much has being able to extend and not going to deep has to do with flexibility? I have the same problem like the TO, funnily I am as fast as him on the IM distance. I know that I need to reach out more, but somehow I cannot manage to do it. For the record, I am as flexible as a brick, but I started working on it lately.