Grant House - 50 Free Above Evaluation
We're gonna take a quick look at Grants freestyle from above water.
Well, the first things we notice is his excellent streamline. So fantastic job here with the hands. We have posted other video in which he starts initiate the first stroke with the top hand had put, you'll notice here that he's initiating with the bottom hand. And so the hands are actually stacked differently than they were on his start. So again, that leads us to believe that he's going for feel.
And so whichever is the best hand, for the right situation, it is the same hand, it's just how they're stacked differently here than they were on a breakout video, which will show later.
What we're looking at here is how parallel to the surface he is on the breakout, there's no lift of the AED.
Everything is very, very forward facing. So just beautiful exit.
When we look at the timing of a stroke, we see that he's got a very front quadrant trying timing. And so we've got both hands in front of the head in front of the shoulders at the same time. This makes for great connection so that when he does drop this hand in, the body rotation is going to help pull the arm back. And so everything is connected along his side and down his arm. So a lot of power right there.
to both sides, it's the same. So he has great timing, we have the body like look at how much of his body is out of the water on this. So again, you don't get this without great balance. Look at his breath, how low the head stays on the breath, turn, and then back down. And you'll also notice that the breath does not hinder his timing.
Again, amazing balance.
He approaches the wall and one of the big things here to notice is that as most people approach the wall, they're going to see you're going to see the head pop up so it's going to go down, the head is going to pop up and then they'll go down and around. So here's a great 200 freestyler the head goes down, you don't see it again. So he's down and it disappears and we get this nice bow wave right there with his upper back.
It streamline and again, very parallel look at look at his hips out of the water on the breakout in the breath.
Now everybody will tell you you're not allowed to take a breath on the first stroke unless you can look like this. So air is good. And the most important thing in my opinion is not when you take a breath but how you take a breath. And if we teach people to breathe more effectively, they can breathe more often because it doesn't impact balance.
And air is fuel while your race kick is consistent. See the feet coming out every once in a while.
The air that's been pulled down with the feet allows for greater foot speed
so he can hammer on the kick a little bit better submerging into the finish. Again, the little details making sure that the eyes are not up and the hands are not on the gutter, but going directly forward to the finish not up. Great job.
