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.
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Speaking of Thorpe, a less than stellar comeback today, but he didn't really swim a freestyle race to the best of my knowledge, just an IM. He will do the fly interestingly enough also.
Keep in mind that Thorpe hasn't raced since 2006. He only officially started his comeback 9 months ago. 9 months of training won't erase 4 1/2 years of not training.
I think too many people are being too hard on him for a 100 im preformance that was his first race in a meet in years.
Speaking of Thorpe, a less than stellar comeback today, but he didn't really swim a freestyle race to the best of my knowledge, just an IM. He will do the fly interestingly enough also.
Keep in mind that Thorpe hasn't raced since 2006. He only officially started his comeback 9 months ago. 9 months of training won't erase 4 1/2 years of not training.
I think too many people are being too hard on him for a 100 im preformance that was his first race in a meet in years.
