I was swimming laps yesterday and I overheard the swim coach tell the high school swim team that they should be swimming flat with no rotation of the hips. He told them that at no point they should not be kicking on their sides and that swimming flat decreases drag.
I've had one other person tell me the same thing when I first started swimming and I ended up with severe shoulder (rotator cuff) pain. It wasn't until I learned how to rotate from side to side that the pain resolved.
I was going to lap swim last night which happened to fall directly after the high school girls practice got done. They are in their final two weeks leading into the State meet. Well, the coach was trying to tell the girls that after their flip turn the need to get as quickly as they can to their stomachs to begin dolphining off the walls because it's much faster. The few girls he was talking to were all confused and a few were telling him that isn't really correct, that she comes off the wall and as she's coming off the wall "on her side" she is dolphining until she is almost ready to break out, then comes horizontal. He said no..., they said yes..., etc. etc. After overhearing this I said that I do the same thing (that the girls were saying) as coming off the turn start dolphining while on my side and then rotating toward my stomach to break out.
He wasn't convinced and I had to get in to show him. So I did, afterward the girls said "See, he does it too!!"
The coach didn't know what to say, and I just started swimming. Funny though. :)
I was going to lap swim last night which happened to fall directly after the high school girls practice got done. They are in their final two weeks leading into the State meet. Well, the coach was trying to tell the girls that after their flip turn the need to get as quickly as they can to their stomachs to begin dolphining off the walls because it's much faster. The few girls he was talking to were all confused and a few were telling him that isn't really correct, that she comes off the wall and as she's coming off the wall "on her side" she is dolphining until she is almost ready to break out, then comes horizontal. He said no..., they said yes..., etc. etc. After overhearing this I said that I do the same thing (that the girls were saying) as coming off the turn start dolphining while on my side and then rotating toward my stomach to break out.
He wasn't convinced and I had to get in to show him. So I did, afterward the girls said "See, he does it too!!"
The coach didn't know what to say, and I just started swimming. Funny though. :)
