Inspired by some of the discussion in the fly thread , I was wondering how you all feel about drills.
Personally, they drive me nuts, yet everywhere people rave about TI and boy do my coaches like 'em. I find that generally drills just make me feel as though I'm learning to swim a way I will never actually swim, as opposed to helping me focus on one aspect of the stroke. For instance, last night, we were doing breaststroke drills and I spent the entire time trying to learn the drill as opposed to focusing on what we were meant to learn.
Also, I tend to learn technique by figuring out what feels right, but with drills, it feels different because you aren't doing the full stroke.
What about you?
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
Sometimes whe really bad swimmers ask me how to improve their stokes, I tell them some drills. They say to me that they aren't going to do that . They remain bad swimmers.
I think that swimmers who have good strokes can use drills. Peole with bad strokes need to use drills.
See, I think some people just learn things different ways. My technique has gotten much better as of late, and it had nothing to do with drills. Rather, the person I was working with said, "You need to do more X." Then I attempted to do so and said, "Like that?" And he would say yes or no. When he said yes, I memorized what that felt like. However, when I do drills, I spend the time fighting againt my instinct to swim the stroke normally.
I know it sounds like justification, but I guess I'm just trying to figure out if anyone else has had this experience.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
Sometimes whe really bad swimmers ask me how to improve their stokes, I tell them some drills. They say to me that they aren't going to do that . They remain bad swimmers.
I think that swimmers who have good strokes can use drills. Peole with bad strokes need to use drills.
See, I think some people just learn things different ways. My technique has gotten much better as of late, and it had nothing to do with drills. Rather, the person I was working with said, "You need to do more X." Then I attempted to do so and said, "Like that?" And he would say yes or no. When he said yes, I memorized what that felt like. However, when I do drills, I spend the time fighting againt my instinct to swim the stroke normally.
I know it sounds like justification, but I guess I'm just trying to figure out if anyone else has had this experience.
