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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The day that I swam so well,by my standerds, I was concentrating on rotating from the hips. I had been rotating from the shoulders which was not generating any power and was throwing my timing off in addition to causing pectorial pain.
To perform the rotation I would use an extra beat in my kick to initate the turn. I would purposely hold my arm out for the catch and then pull thru anchoring my pull using my abdominal muscles. I also increased my intervals to an even minute for each 50 and did no distance over a 100, except for my warm up. This was very easy to use 1 miniute intervals.
Suggetions?
Paul
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Former Member
The day that I swam so well,by my standerds, I was concentrating on rotating from the hips. I had been rotating from the shoulders which was not generating any power and was throwing my timing off in addition to causing pectorial pain.
To perform the rotation I would use an extra beat in my kick to initate the turn. I would purposely hold my arm out for the catch and then pull thru anchoring my pull using my abdominal muscles. I also increased my intervals to an even minute for each 50 and did no distance over a 100, except for my warm up. This was very easy to use 1 miniute intervals.
Suggetions?
Paul
