In the overgrown jungle known as "the Fastest Age", this idea came up:
Originally posted by gull80
I thought that anchoring was more a figure of speech, although I did read in TI that your arms/shoulders are much less important than your core muscles (which I still find hard to believe).
I brought up the baseball pitcher analogy that is popular. Craig mentioned he knew of that example, but the pitcher gets to push off the ground. I gave a counter example of throwing in water polo (in an all-deep pool ;) ). At that point, we both got sucked back into... ah... another discussion.
I wanted to start this thread, to see if it would yield any interesting insights. I was talking to a Masters swimmer who went to a training camp at the Olympic Training Center, and she mentioned that the main emphasis was to engage the core muscles during your swim.
I'm certain that I am not using ideal power transfer. I hope that I am not misrepresenting Craig, in saying he is not sure about how this is done.
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Originally posted by mattson
I brought up the baseball pitcher analogy that is popular. Craig mentioned he knew of that example, but the pitcher gets to push off the ground. I gave a counter example of throwing in water polo (in an all-deep pool ;) ).
There's also another important analogy to baseball:
I doubt that any kid who is learning to pitch needs to be told to use his arm. But there are plenty of kids who need to be told to use their core body.
The same is true in swimming. Regardless of whether the arms are more or less important than the core body, it is the core body which swimmers more often neglect, and therefore that is the part of their stroke that more commonly needs to be corrected.
Bob
Originally posted by mattson
I brought up the baseball pitcher analogy that is popular. Craig mentioned he knew of that example, but the pitcher gets to push off the ground. I gave a counter example of throwing in water polo (in an all-deep pool ;) ).
There's also another important analogy to baseball:
I doubt that any kid who is learning to pitch needs to be told to use his arm. But there are plenty of kids who need to be told to use their core body.
The same is true in swimming. Regardless of whether the arms are more or less important than the core body, it is the core body which swimmers more often neglect, and therefore that is the part of their stroke that more commonly needs to be corrected.
Bob
