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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On the downward body motion the weight shift can be real indeed though. Gees I'm lucky. I found an example of what I meant here. Click on watch video.
This swimmer is syncrhonizing his catch with downward body motion. When swimming like this, I think it's truly possible to use (partial) weight shift on the catch to ease up the first part of the pull through phase.
www.goswim.tv/drilloftheweek_comments.php
Disclaimour : I have no opinion on the content of the article per se. I only provided this link to show a potential example of what I'd call weight shift in swimming.
On the downward body motion the weight shift can be real indeed though. Gees I'm lucky. I found an example of what I meant here. Click on watch video.
This swimmer is syncrhonizing his catch with downward body motion. When swimming like this, I think it's truly possible to use (partial) weight shift on the catch to ease up the first part of the pull through phase.
www.goswim.tv/drilloftheweek_comments.php
Disclaimour : I have no opinion on the content of the article per se. I only provided this link to show a potential example of what I'd call weight shift in swimming.
