When swimming freestyle, is it more efficient to pull deep in the water ? It seems that the more of a roll I achieve the deeper the hand /forearm are for pulling. In other words is a deeper pull faster or not?
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One of the problems with stroke instruction is often it says to do something (like maintain a high elbow) but doesn't really explain why. It always works better for me to understand the purpose behind stroke advice.
I actually had a coach two years ago tell me to swim with a straight arm underwater. I knew right away he was an idiot.
I believe you can find the Hackett video (and others) here: swim.ee/.../free.html
Performance of the swim.ee website is generally poor so I recommend you download (right click, then save) the videos and play them from your computer instead of trying to play them on the site.
One of the problems with stroke instruction is often it says to do something (like maintain a high elbow) but doesn't really explain why. It always works better for me to understand the purpose behind stroke advice.
I actually had a coach two years ago tell me to swim with a straight arm underwater. I knew right away he was an idiot.
I believe you can find the Hackett video (and others) here: swim.ee/.../free.html
Performance of the swim.ee website is generally poor so I recommend you download (right click, then save) the videos and play them from your computer instead of trying to play them on the site.
