As a transfer, back to swimming from the "semi" sport of golf, I still have a strong desire to read instructional information. Whether it be in a book, magazine, or an article there is always a finepoint to be gleaned to improve ones golf game. And the quantity of books on golf...well need I go on?
Fast forward to swimming. A couple of books with out-of-date stroke descriptions and graphics made of ill formed stick figures. What's going on? I can find a 60 frame sequence of Tiger's golf swing, from a couple of angles, but it appears that all world class swimmers are camera shy. Why? Money? Not wanting to share secrets? Camera shortage?
Little stroke snipits (video loops) on the internet are not enough. Where is the detail? If the experts of our sport spend hours in a tank figuring out their hydrodynamics surely someone has take a Polaroid or two!?! (and is willing to share)
From what I have been able to find, nobody has published a quality Swimming book since Doc Counsilman. Does anyone have any reading suggestions? With real detail?
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The USMS home page is a great place to pick up short and sweet articles on stroke technique. A click onto "Training" will segway into articles and other reading that basicaly sum up and reinforce the concepts of the T.I. book.
I've actually printed many of the writings of Master Emmett whom I consider to be the guru of proper stroke technique and balance in the water. Too bad this knowlegdge wasn't around twenty years ago, when the infamous "S" stroke was considered the ultimate way to produce propulsion.
Thanks to good reading and a conscious effort to make some changes, my sprint times have improved remarkably with a simple drop of the head and extension of the lead arm into the stroke cycle.
Even if books did offer photos of the elite swimmers in freeze frames for reference, unlike golf swimming really does boil down to "different strokes for different folks". (More likely than not though....you'ld see everyone with a buried head and hips skimming along the surface). Stick figures rule.
The USMS home page is a great place to pick up short and sweet articles on stroke technique. A click onto "Training" will segway into articles and other reading that basicaly sum up and reinforce the concepts of the T.I. book.
I've actually printed many of the writings of Master Emmett whom I consider to be the guru of proper stroke technique and balance in the water. Too bad this knowlegdge wasn't around twenty years ago, when the infamous "S" stroke was considered the ultimate way to produce propulsion.
Thanks to good reading and a conscious effort to make some changes, my sprint times have improved remarkably with a simple drop of the head and extension of the lead arm into the stroke cycle.
Even if books did offer photos of the elite swimmers in freeze frames for reference, unlike golf swimming really does boil down to "different strokes for different folks". (More likely than not though....you'ld see everyone with a buried head and hips skimming along the surface). Stick figures rule.
