How do you correct "crossing over" or "snaking" in a freestyle stroke? Are there drills? I can't shake it.
I finally filmed my stroke and was told before to do so to see that my entry arm (on a right stroke) is entering the water across near my left ear. From my vantage point, I see the right hand when I'm swimming at 1 oclock or slightly to the right of my right shoulder. I look at the film and sure enough, my right hand is coming across, near the left ear. In the water, I'm feeling the hand is entering the water and catch at 1 oclock.
My gliding arm, the left, I see is not straight, but angles a bit back to my right side. It looks like m right arm is coming over my left hand. And I'm really over rotating on my left shoulder. Right elbow is way up, almost immediately vertical to my right ear. Alot of this is effected by total immerssion book I read, to swim on your side.
Not sure how to fix this, or what the culprit is.
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The cross tailing is in all lymph nodes.
I do it on the left side as well. I now think it's just fatigue or I have not much flexibility or stamina when I'm sticking out my gliding arm. My natural tendency is to have a relaxed gliding arm, and it's more relaxed if it is angled in.
I bilateral breath, in the sense of, in a 25 yard pool, right breathing, back down, left breathing. But as far as right breath, turn, left breath, not balanced enough to do that. I can do it every third stroke, but I have to get air on every stroke, and the CO2 builds up.
Just a minute ago, I did the catchup drill and consciously tried to keep the straight arm, straight on the black line, stroking on the right, and off I go to the right, off to the right of the black line.
There's just no sense swimming a mile or so, every other day, until I fix this. I'm just going to start doing the TI drills and swallow half the pool.
The cross tailing is in all lymph nodes.
I do it on the left side as well. I now think it's just fatigue or I have not much flexibility or stamina when I'm sticking out my gliding arm. My natural tendency is to have a relaxed gliding arm, and it's more relaxed if it is angled in.
I bilateral breath, in the sense of, in a 25 yard pool, right breathing, back down, left breathing. But as far as right breath, turn, left breath, not balanced enough to do that. I can do it every third stroke, but I have to get air on every stroke, and the CO2 builds up.
Just a minute ago, I did the catchup drill and consciously tried to keep the straight arm, straight on the black line, stroking on the right, and off I go to the right, off to the right of the black line.
There's just no sense swimming a mile or so, every other day, until I fix this. I'm just going to start doing the TI drills and swallow half the pool.
