Sculling

What a previous poster said about "feeling" the water is pretty true. What happens is that during a practice, you work to store muscle movements in your muscle memory (that's an actual term "muscle memory). When you get out of the water, your muscle memory immediately starts to degrade. Your muscles literally forget how to swim. Sculling is good to help you relearn some of the smaller variations you can make in a stroking motion. The best example of this is if you are a swimmer who swims every day, but miss three or four days for some reason. Your first workout back may be kinda tough. Not because you're out of shape, but because your muscles have literally forgotten the finer points of the motions. In terms of getting better at strokes, also like sculling to isolate certain stroke motions from full pulls. We do a butterfly sculling drill that is actually counter-intuative to how most people think they should scull for butterfly. It leads to a more advanced timing of the stroke, but we would never get there if we didn't start with sculling drills. We use the same drill for breaststroke and get the same result. The debate on Bernoulli's principle goes back and forth. We could argue that one all day, so I won't make any comments about that. Ryan@ICoachSwimming.com www.ICoachSwimming.com

What a previous poster said about "feeling" the water is pretty true. What happens is that during a practice, you work to store muscle movements in your muscle memory (that's an actual term "muscle memory). When you get out of the water, your muscle memory immediately starts to degrade. Your muscles literally forget how to swim. Sculling is good to help you relearn some of the smaller variations you can make in a stroking motion. The best example of this is if you are a swimmer who swims every day, but miss three or four days for some reason. Your first workout back may be kinda tough. Not because you're out of shape, but because your muscles have literally forgotten the finer points of the motions. In terms of getting better at strokes, also like sculling to isolate certain stroke motions from full pulls. We do a butterfly sculling drill that is actually counter-intuative to how most people think they should scull for butterfly. It leads to a more advanced timing of the stroke, but we would never get there if we didn't start with sculling drills. We use the same drill for breaststroke and get the same result. The debate on Bernoulli's principle goes back and forth. We could argue that one all day, so I won't make any comments about that. Ryan@ICoachSwimming.com www.ICoachSwimming.com