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 think I will have my first coffee of the day 6:30 am here a little late rising. I watched a short film last night Mao Swims in the Yangtze River he was an amazing very bad swimmer at 73. I did notice he was doing a head up dog paddle, He was weght shifting to take advantage of the river current. It looked as if he were anchored to the bottom for quite a while but really started to move once he took advantage of the Flow (of the river).
I think I will have my first coffee of the day 6:30 am here a little late rising. I watched a short film last night Mao Swims in the Yangtze River he was an amazing very bad swimmer at 73. I did notice he was doing a head up dog paddle, He was weght shifting to take advantage of the river current. It looked as if he were anchored to the bottom for quite a while but really started to move once he took advantage of the Flow (of the river).
