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
Geek:
I'm sure you tell from my prior posts that I am not just drinking from Kool-aid cups." I have a brain.
Now I agree with your last paragraph (and what you said about triathletes on another thread). There are many different ways to swim and to work out. For example, I am not changing to a 2 beat kick -- I'm a sprinter -- and I'm going to keep kicking sets in my training regimen. And I don't believe swimming TI will "save" my shoulders. I have to swim around them -- sometimes with fins, which I know you don't like. But with them I can still swim and be fit, loving it the way you suggest. I was just saying I'm not adverse to listening to other people's ideas.
Leslie
Geek:
I'm sure you tell from my prior posts that I am not just drinking from Kool-aid cups." I have a brain.
Now I agree with your last paragraph (and what you said about triathletes on another thread). There are many different ways to swim and to work out. For example, I am not changing to a 2 beat kick -- I'm a sprinter -- and I'm going to keep kicking sets in my training regimen. And I don't believe swimming TI will "save" my shoulders. I have to swim around them -- sometimes with fins, which I know you don't like. But with them I can still swim and be fit, loving it the way you suggest. I was just saying I'm not adverse to listening to other people's ideas.
Leslie
