dec 2012 swimming world magazine has picture of champion freestyle swimmer Yannick Angel from underwater during his catch. He has three middle fingers tightly together but little finger splayed out at 30 degrees and thumb significantly abducted. This seems to go against common belief in slightly spread relaxed fingers as the most efficient position. Chris Hiatt
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Last night at team practice, I tried diff finger positions. Well -I still like mine close , but not tightly . I don't actually believe (yet) in this *fingers slightly open* thingy.
I, like most people, regularly see elite having fingers very relaxed upon hand entry/downsweep. But what really matters is what comes after. And it's very very hard to find reliable footage of - for instance - finger position during the final upsweep.
I think that it is fallacious to believe that fingers remain open just because the footage displaying that they are early into the hand's underwater pulling path shows this.
Last night at team practice, I tried diff finger positions. Well -I still like mine close , but not tightly . I don't actually believe (yet) in this *fingers slightly open* thingy.
I, like most people, regularly see elite having fingers very relaxed upon hand entry/downsweep. But what really matters is what comes after. And it's very very hard to find reliable footage of - for instance - finger position during the final upsweep.
I think that it is fallacious to believe that fingers remain open just because the footage displaying that they are early into the hand's underwater pulling path shows this.
