Boy you're a shitty friend. I would have recorded my "friend" from multiple angels. You just seem to hang on the wall. Tell your "friend" to find someone who is actually willing to help !
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ETA - looks like slowman finally sent you your GoPro hero ?

Looks to me like the left arm is consistently drawing slightly deeper that the right, which has a slightly higher elbow and looks more appropriate to me. It may be a roll issue, I don't know. Still his swimming form looks pretty good.

because if I don't then I stall. if I leave it out there longer then I go slower, cuz that creates a dead spot in my stroke. I'm not saying it is perfect, but it works for me and my idiosyncracies, and I've been swimming this way for so long that I'm hesitant to completely change everything.

besides, it seems to be pretty common to get pulling quicker with the pulling arm on the breathing stroke. I see a few guys in this race doing it. Check out leClos at the bottom of the screen...

eh - more drills and thrills, as I don't think any band-aid style tweaks will make too much of a difference. Visit a high-performance center and see what they are doing.

The guy behind however, is much more of project!

Unfortunately, the closest HPC is about 2000 kms away, so I'm stuck with you lot....

More seriously.....

Masters is only twice a week right now, with no coach on deck, and greatly diminished numbers. we had 5 at practice on Wednesday, usually it is around 20-30 depending on the night. Once the new season starts I'm gonna go over it with coach and see what he says...

Jason,
a few observations:
upon watching these videos a few times it is clear you are not exhaling much if at all in the water. The number one performance inhibitor in swimming is breathing and in particular exhaling. Been saying this here for years. (though I dont often post).
Symmetry is one of the 4 key areas of feedback for more efficient swimming.

Briefly, your brain controls everything. So it doesn't matter how hard you concentrate on entry or push or glide or finishing a stroke or any other of a million things that "swim coaches" say.. what matters is balancing your o2 / co2 level in your blood stream so you can then*think enough, to make the changes you need. Start w exhaling. (plus it is a great way to expel body fat **little fact)

At this point you are a "one armed swimmer". Your left arm is purely a support mechanism to get the breath. Your right arm is propelling you. Some simple one are swimming will demonstrate that. Exhaling more effectively will buy you the time (and the brain function) to breathe every 3rd stroke (if not 5th) and allow you to feel that asymmetry. This is NOT about doing MORE with your strokes.. in fact, your right side does significantly LESS than your left. This will be about cutting out all that extra you do that is involved with getting that breath. Hope that makes sense.

Good luck!
Best,
DaveD