Not bad if you generally aren't prone to arm or back/core muscle problems. Some people are going to be faster with lower exertion rates if they let the dominant side of the body do more of the work. It's not something to consciously model or strive for, but if that's how your stroke naturally develops when you start to pick up the pace, that could be how freestyle works best for you.
I wish there was some video of Yuri Prilukov's freestyle floating around on the net. Sub-15:00 LC 1500M guy who also won that race at Short Course World this year. Lopsided to the extreme with his free and it almost looks like he's doing one arm butterfly on one side, but that way of swimming turned out to be exactly what he needed to do to reach his potential.
Top four in the men's 1500 in Athens this year all had very different and all ultimately successful ways of freestyle- two lopers (Hackett to some degree, Prilukov to the extreme), textbook TI (Jensen), and higher cadence/weak kick (Davies). A reminder that there is no one perfect way of swimming freestyle, just a way that works best for a given person.
I wish there was some video of Yuri Prilukov's freestyle floating around on the net. Sub-15:00 LC 1500M guy who also won that race at Short Course World this year. Lopsided to the extreme with his free and it almost looks like he's doing one arm butterfly on one side, but that way of swimming turned out to be exactly what he needed to do to reach his potential.
Top four in the men's 1500 in Athens this year all had very different and all ultimately successful ways of freestyle- two lopers (Hackett to some degree, Prilukov to the extreme), textbook TI (Jensen), and higher cadence/weak kick (Davies). A reminder that there is no one perfect way of swimming freestyle, just a way that works best for a given person.