I'm looking for some good drills. One of the other threads spoke of swimming on one's side with the lower arm extended. I've started this as well as what I call form swimming. Instead of pulling 100 or 200 yards warm up, I swim those yards very deliberate with the best form I can. Stretched out, lots of rotation about my centerline. Thats about the extent of my understanding of good form. Lastly, I do the arms crossed, upright dolphin treading water. Can anyone suggest other drills? For example, what is it to ladder swim?
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A ladder swim is not really a drill as much as a style of workout. For example you might swimm 100, 200, 300....300, 200, 100.
A drill that helps me is catch-up. You swim normal stroke except that you do not begin a stroke until the recovering hand touches the waiting hand in the water in front of you. This is good for me because it reminds me to keep my stroke "in the front quadrant".
