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 finished reading the article that Bud linked from Swimming World. After reading the article three times, I feel as I must go back to medical school for a degree to understand a lot of the points.
If someone has time, will you please put the article into simplier terms? When the author starts mentioning "addicution/abducition,etc,etc" it does get confusing for me, at least.
The article seems like it was well thought out and is informative, if I could have a better understand of the concepts.
Thanks,
David
I finished reading the article that Bud linked from Swimming World. After reading the article three times, I feel as I must go back to medical school for a degree to understand a lot of the points.
If someone has time, will you please put the article into simplier terms? When the author starts mentioning "addicution/abducition,etc,etc" it does get confusing for me, at least.
The article seems like it was well thought out and is informative, if I could have a better understand of the concepts.
Thanks,
David
