Hi all.
Do we have to OPEN or CLOSE our fingers when are swimming freestyle, I mean in catch n pull stage?
May I ask why?
Thank you very much.
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George and Paul, as I said in my post there is feel and there is physics. The stroke should feel like you are grabbing something solid and pulling yourself past it, and the better your technique the closer you will come to that, it may even be that how you should swim is exactly how you would swim if it were possible to push on a fluid as if it were a solid. BUT, it is basic physics that you can't push against a fluid without the fluid moving in the direction you are pushing. Again, it is very possible that it is better to concentrate on the feel and forget about the physics.
Rather than debate with me debate directly with the water: go to the pool and try to push against it without having it move.
George and Paul, as I said in my post there is feel and there is physics. The stroke should feel like you are grabbing something solid and pulling yourself past it, and the better your technique the closer you will come to that, it may even be that how you should swim is exactly how you would swim if it were possible to push on a fluid as if it were a solid. BUT, it is basic physics that you can't push against a fluid without the fluid moving in the direction you are pushing. Again, it is very possible that it is better to concentrate on the feel and forget about the physics.
Rather than debate with me debate directly with the water: go to the pool and try to push against it without having it move.
