Hi all. I've been working through the TI drills from the book. I've posted a couple of videos on Youtube:
TI Triple Overswitch Drill Practice - YouTube
TI Drillstroke Practice - YouTube
Particularly on the second video I'm really throwing my right arm. I don't notice it when I'm doing it though. Anyone care to have a look at my videos and tell me how I'm doing and what I need to work on? Thanks,
David
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Then here's the deal.
My comment about your kicking pertained to this second clip.
What you do is good, no doubt about that, it's good drilling. The only problem that I see is that this work teaches you (or teaches your body) to rely heavily on your kicking to provide forward propulsion. As a proof of this, after having worked on the drill displayed in clip#1, you end up swimming as in clip#2, ie with an 8 or 10beat kick or something.
Since there's also a pulling component to your drill shown in clip#1, it'd be good to try to improve your pulling feel for water. In a well balanced freestyle execution, there should not be more than 6 kicks per stroke cycle, that's 3 per body rotation.
One good way of helping this would be to perform a bit of pull buoy swim after having worked on drill shown in clip#1, for 200-300m. Then do the full stroke work maybe?
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Then here's the deal.
My comment about your kicking pertained to this second clip.
What you do is good, no doubt about that, it's good drilling. The only problem that I see is that this work teaches you (or teaches your body) to rely heavily on your kicking to provide forward propulsion. As a proof of this, after having worked on the drill displayed in clip#1, you end up swimming as in clip#2, ie with an 8 or 10beat kick or something.
Since there's also a pulling component to your drill shown in clip#1, it'd be good to try to improve your pulling feel for water. In a well balanced freestyle execution, there should not be more than 6 kicks per stroke cycle, that's 3 per body rotation.
One good way of helping this would be to perform a bit of pull buoy swim after having worked on drill shown in clip#1, for 200-300m. Then do the full stroke work maybe?
