Hey everybody!! Just a few questions about your elbows!
1. During the freestyle recovery, how high do you need to have your elbows? some say 90 degrees to your shoulder at the height...but watching the Olympics and the SCM World Championships...It looked like they had their elbows a lot lower.
2. During the underwater pull on backstroke, do you bend your elbows or not? I dont' because sometimes it hurts the inside of my elbows and I feel like I get a better pull going straight back.
3. During the butterfly recovery, do you bend your elbows or not? I've seen people with little to none and people who almost drag their fingertips.
Thanx to everyone for all your help!!
~Kyra
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Seagurl,
I just went back and read the post on "distance per stroke" (also under general discussions)... and I realized that it was actually "Swimmin in Dreams" that posted the message about averaging 12 strokes per length....So sorry about the mix up!!.....None-the-less, I have really enjoyed reading the posts you have made here!....I am also a HUGE soccer fanatic!.....I noticed that you mentioned that you were also a soccer fan and coached a little soccer as well. Next to swimming, soccer is my favorite sport.....I do like other sports though.....I live for the Tennessee Vols and since I'm from Houston, I'm pretty excited about the Astros this season,....Luckily the Stros avoided goin down 0-3 in the NLCS today....Hopefully Oswalt will even the series tommorrow (sorry to all the Cards fans out there but I got a pull for my home town boys).....I still remember the painful end to so many other post season showings....The most painful was to the Mets in 86 when the Stros lost the NCLS series in 6 in the 16th inning.....Hopefully this will be the year!
newmastersswimmer
p.s. Did you see the 6:0 pounding the U.S. Men's National soccer team served up to Panama the other nite??
Seagurl,
I just went back and read the post on "distance per stroke" (also under general discussions)... and I realized that it was actually "Swimmin in Dreams" that posted the message about averaging 12 strokes per length....So sorry about the mix up!!.....None-the-less, I have really enjoyed reading the posts you have made here!....I am also a HUGE soccer fanatic!.....I noticed that you mentioned that you were also a soccer fan and coached a little soccer as well. Next to swimming, soccer is my favorite sport.....I do like other sports though.....I live for the Tennessee Vols and since I'm from Houston, I'm pretty excited about the Astros this season,....Luckily the Stros avoided goin down 0-3 in the NLCS today....Hopefully Oswalt will even the series tommorrow (sorry to all the Cards fans out there but I got a pull for my home town boys).....I still remember the painful end to so many other post season showings....The most painful was to the Mets in 86 when the Stros lost the NCLS series in 6 in the 16th inning.....Hopefully this will be the year!
newmastersswimmer
p.s. Did you see the 6:0 pounding the U.S. Men's National soccer team served up to Panama the other nite??
