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 geochuck
I have been watching other coaches who make up their workouts and every work out is a drill no time spent on stroke correction.
Where I'm from these people aren't really coaching. This type of "coach" is just punching a time card, collecting a paycheck. Drills require hands-on coaching. Fundamentals cannot be taught without some type of feedback. But, fundamentals are required to be good at anything, IMO. I seem to remember a post that read, "Build a volkswagon, drive a volkswagon. Build a porsche, drive a porsche." As a coach, I feel that drills are important to build that porsche, even at the masters level. If drills are accompanied by a coach sitting down reading the paper, then you aren't even going to be able to build a gremlin.
Nothing against any of you VW owners or gremlin lovers. Boy, wouldn't that be a thread!
Originally posted by geochuck
I have been watching other coaches who make up their workouts and every work out is a drill no time spent on stroke correction.
Where I'm from these people aren't really coaching. This type of "coach" is just punching a time card, collecting a paycheck. Drills require hands-on coaching. Fundamentals cannot be taught without some type of feedback. But, fundamentals are required to be good at anything, IMO. I seem to remember a post that read, "Build a volkswagon, drive a volkswagon. Build a porsche, drive a porsche." As a coach, I feel that drills are important to build that porsche, even at the masters level. If drills are accompanied by a coach sitting down reading the paper, then you aren't even going to be able to build a gremlin.
Nothing against any of you VW owners or gremlin lovers. Boy, wouldn't that be a thread!
