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
That's a drill you wre doing it just wasn't something you wanted to label as a drill.
It isn't about wanting to label; it's just having different definitions of drill, but thanks for ascribing delusion when there was a much better possibilty for explanation. I do enjoy my motives being impugned.
My beef is with, shall we say, the subset of drills that involve not swimming the stroke as you normally would (with the exception of kick and pull sets) as opposed to just focusing on a particular ascpect or sensation while swimming the stroke. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer before. Take catch-up for instance. I spend so much time focusing on countering my instinct to start pulling at a certain point that I get nothing else from it. I do the drill because I do what my coach tells me to, but it's certainly beyond frustrating.
I was curious if I was crazy or in the bell curve on that feeling. The poll is inconclusive.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
That's a drill you wre doing it just wasn't something you wanted to label as a drill.
It isn't about wanting to label; it's just having different definitions of drill, but thanks for ascribing delusion when there was a much better possibilty for explanation. I do enjoy my motives being impugned.
My beef is with, shall we say, the subset of drills that involve not swimming the stroke as you normally would (with the exception of kick and pull sets) as opposed to just focusing on a particular ascpect or sensation while swimming the stroke. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer before. Take catch-up for instance. I spend so much time focusing on countering my instinct to start pulling at a certain point that I get nothing else from it. I do the drill because I do what my coach tells me to, but it's certainly beyond frustrating.
I was curious if I was crazy or in the bell curve on that feeling. The poll is inconclusive.
