I am trying to improve my freestyle. I have been working on balance,timing,counting strokes.
When watching videos of world classs swimmers, I noticed that on swimmers like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, that their arm in the water is fully extended(straight) and angled below the corresponding shoulder. It looks as though the arm that is about to catch the water is angled to where it points towards where the pool wall and pool bottom meet. Not pointed directly down but not pointed directly straight out from the shoulder to the wall.
It seems like most of the best freestylers have their extended arms pointed below their bottom shoulder at an angle before the pull. This also appears to only happen once they have finished the rotation to that side.
Has anyone else noticed this or am I way off?
Thanks,
David
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I interpret piercing to mean "shape your body to fit through the smallest hole in the water" not "shoot an arrow into the water."
When one considers that water is 880 times denser then air and the greatest source of energy consumption is drag, active streamlining makes perfect sense.
Thanks for clearing that up Terry. :hug: Making the smallest hole in the water has been in my vocabular for 60 years when I helped teach swimming on Friday nights in Hamilton. All the competitive swimmers in Hamilton would go to the pool and teach large group swimming lessons with our coach Jimmy Thompson.
See my coach swimdownhill.com/.../page17.html
I interpret piercing to mean "shape your body to fit through the smallest hole in the water" not "shoot an arrow into the water."
When one considers that water is 880 times denser then air and the greatest source of energy consumption is drag, active streamlining makes perfect sense.
Thanks for clearing that up Terry. :hug: Making the smallest hole in the water has been in my vocabular for 60 years when I helped teach swimming on Friday nights in Hamilton. All the competitive swimmers in Hamilton would go to the pool and teach large group swimming lessons with our coach Jimmy Thompson.
See my coach swimdownhill.com/.../page17.html
