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?
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Originally posted by shark
I'm not sure what this means. Drills are used by coaches to teach proper technique. I bet if you look at any of the olympic swimmers, they all use some type of drill. Be it drills for starts, strokes, turns or breath control. Drills are a very important part of swimming. I use drills as a conditioning part of my program for my young swimmers. Conditioning through proper drilling on technique.
You can't find any elite athlete at any sport that doesn't use drills to enhance their performances.
Just my two cents worth. I have been watching other coaches who make up their workouts and every work out is a drill no time spent on stroke correction. I as a coach don't do anything but stroke correction. I let the drill sargents have the swimmers drilled to death. Drills will not correct anything unless each drill is a coached drill. That is the reason I only do one on one teaching (coaching???)
Originally posted by shark
I'm not sure what this means. Drills are used by coaches to teach proper technique. I bet if you look at any of the olympic swimmers, they all use some type of drill. Be it drills for starts, strokes, turns or breath control. Drills are a very important part of swimming. I use drills as a conditioning part of my program for my young swimmers. Conditioning through proper drilling on technique.
You can't find any elite athlete at any sport that doesn't use drills to enhance their performances.
Just my two cents worth. I have been watching other coaches who make up their workouts and every work out is a drill no time spent on stroke correction. I as a coach don't do anything but stroke correction. I let the drill sargents have the swimmers drilled to death. Drills will not correct anything unless each drill is a coached drill. That is the reason I only do one on one teaching (coaching???)
