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 Kevin in MD
George,
I am wondering you would or how you do in fact work stroke correction time into a standard masters practice of one hour. At a master swim session I take a lane at a time and spend five or more minutes doing stroke stuff. It may be a dropped elbow, finish, shoulder roll, breathing in the arm pit, head to high, hand position, only one correction to work on at a time. On front crawl I have 29 items that I check and try to correct.
Originally posted by Kevin in MD
George,
I am wondering you would or how you do in fact work stroke correction time into a standard masters practice of one hour. At a master swim session I take a lane at a time and spend five or more minutes doing stroke stuff. It may be a dropped elbow, finish, shoulder roll, breathing in the arm pit, head to high, hand position, only one correction to work on at a time. On front crawl I have 29 items that I check and try to correct.
