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
The books by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi are really good. I like Finding Flow - about getting into the zone during everyday life and would highly recommend it.
I am not anywhere remotely near an elite swimmer, but I too have had a race where everything just seemed to click. It was the 100 *** (sorry, I know this is a freestyle thread!), which is usually the most painful of the breaststroke races for me. I dropped nearly 2 seconds from my best time (1:20 mid down to 1:18.8). I hardly remember anything about the race except that I felt smooth, in control, and like I could have kept going.
The books by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi are really good. I like Finding Flow - about getting into the zone during everyday life and would highly recommend it.
I am not anywhere remotely near an elite swimmer, but I too have had a race where everything just seemed to click. It was the 100 *** (sorry, I know this is a freestyle thread!), which is usually the most painful of the breaststroke races for me. I dropped nearly 2 seconds from my best time (1:20 mid down to 1:18.8). I hardly remember anything about the race except that I felt smooth, in control, and like I could have kept going.
