Which Swimmer Has The Best Breaststroke Technique?

Put your coaching goggles on! Who has the best breaststroke technique, and why? 🧐 #shorts

[JayceeKleinstuberRegionOffice]

The top has closed fingers and better arm placement for the gliding but he lifts his head when breathing and he dives down pretty far on each stroke. The bottom has open fingers and not the best arm placement for gliding but she keeps her head down when breathing and doesn’t dive down super far. They both have great strokes and I hope they keep practicing!

[fallingashes]

Here is what I observe.

1. The top swimmer's head does look foward upon breathing before being placed down (may be an indicator of head bobbing /turtle head). The bottom swimmer's head appears locked in a downward angle.

2. The top swimmer's hands and arms in the end phase of the recovery are close together and drive in a downward angle. This causes the body to dip below the water in a larger undulating fashion. The bottom swimmer's hands and arms stay separately at the width of her shoulders as they extend out and not in a downward manner. And although she is not holding streamline, the technique she is using during the extension of her arms is a very common one used by many top tier swimmers and would not be considered incorrect.

3. The timing between the pull and kick is also different between the two. The top swimmer starts his kick at the start/middle of recovery phase of the stroke. The bottom swimmer starts the kick at the end of recovery phase.

4. The position of the elbows of both is different. The bottom swimmer has higher elbow and better positioning throughout the pull phase of the stroke. The top swimmer's elbows through the pull are not as high as the top.

Unfortunately the camera angle is pretty bad and clip is not long enough to give full critique. But between the two swimmers the swimmer on the bottom appears to have the better form.

[TheRockyBalboa]

Top: closed fingers
Top: head looking forward when breathing

[petercaswell]

Both have problems. Most obvious - top man starts his kick too early, lifts his head when breathing instead of always looking down, and seems to go too deep, the woman on the bottom has knees way to wide for the kick.

[Scubz]

No because I can't look both at once 😂

[markwageeh]

The timing of the kick, the one on the bottom has it right since the kick comes after the pull not at the same time

[ccbgaming]

The biggest difference is that the top swimmer has a slight shoulder shrug, which allows him to get more momentum from each time he throws his arms and chest out foward.

[teshthekid]

The direction of force on entry... First is down and forward like butterfly..
Second it's shallow and forward like front crawl.

[owenbond]

There’s a couple, the top one does better streamline and has higher elbows, so he pulls more water

[aramhovsepyan]

The bottom one's glide is worse because she doesn't get into streamline, she keeps her hands separated

[limjunxian]

The major difference was perhaps their eye looking. The girl looked down at certain angle from horizontal line.
Also, the high head position would probably affect breathing and unnatural balancing.

[marydimassi]

Top points arms/hands down when outstretched instead of straight ahead

[thomasjohnson]

the guys technique is better because he looks fotward with his head and raises his upper body more when he breathes

[mg]

Both have wide knee kick problem, below has elbow drops instead of shooting forward, it leads a slight timing issue between pull and kick

[Hrts.miaa]

The one on top doesn't have his head down but the girl does

[SJ-rybr]

Hand position when entering the water. The man's palm is always looking down the floor but the woman's palm shortly watches the sky

[JM-zkud]

top swimmer sinks.. bottom swimmer swims in streamline.. you could tell by the splashing of the water when they both dive in the water too

[brahimmarouani]

Lady is better. Kick right after catch. Man is doing both in the same time and make him slower

[oscillatinginertia]

Neither. Both their heads fully come out of the water. Thats inefficient

[yashwantsingh]

Girl- not upping the head

Boy- upping head

Is it right????