I was reading an article that was telling me how I should use some drills to improve my reactions on the starting block. Just what type of drills are these?
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When I was in age group swimming, and even up into early high school, one of my coaches was hired specifically to work with us on our starts.
His brilliant idea was to utilize what he called the "teamwork" drill. Here it is: one person stands on the blocks, positioned for a start. A second person stands behind them on the pool deck and uses a kickboard to create a starting noise, usually by hitting the step-up onto the block. Said person with said kickboard then swings kickboard at person on block's hiney.
That said, this drill worked better for us when it was a teammate we didn't particularly get along with. If you got caught by that kickboard, you remembered it, and eventually, you learned to get the h-e-hockey sticks off the block when you heard that sound.
I'm not sure just how HR that is, but it works. Plain and simple. LIke Pavlov's freaking dogs.
:D
When I was in age group swimming, and even up into early high school, one of my coaches was hired specifically to work with us on our starts.
His brilliant idea was to utilize what he called the "teamwork" drill. Here it is: one person stands on the blocks, positioned for a start. A second person stands behind them on the pool deck and uses a kickboard to create a starting noise, usually by hitting the step-up onto the block. Said person with said kickboard then swings kickboard at person on block's hiney.
That said, this drill worked better for us when it was a teammate we didn't particularly get along with. If you got caught by that kickboard, you remembered it, and eventually, you learned to get the h-e-hockey sticks off the block when you heard that sound.
I'm not sure just how HR that is, but it works. Plain and simple. LIke Pavlov's freaking dogs.
:D
