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 certainly did it my way and it did not always workout the way I wanted it to. I am happy that Terry and you have found a direction to go. I was lucky I was considered a natural swimmer, my legs always went to the surface when I did a front float even when I was 172 lbs. I found away around a lot of obstacles. I will still say there are a lot of ways to skin a cat (not an original statement gleaned from the past) I did not train enough I had my reasons. I even suggested from my website Total Immersion. Even at my age my legs don't work well but I can still swim the rest of my body is flexible.
A friend of mine 96 years old came up to me last summer and said "George how fast would you have been if you trained harder" I said we will never know.
I certainly did it my way and it did not always workout the way I wanted it to. I am happy that Terry and you have found a direction to go. I was lucky I was considered a natural swimmer, my legs always went to the surface when I did a front float even when I was 172 lbs. I found away around a lot of obstacles. I will still say there are a lot of ways to skin a cat (not an original statement gleaned from the past) I did not train enough I had my reasons. I even suggested from my website Total Immersion. Even at my age my legs don't work well but I can still swim the rest of my body is flexible.
A friend of mine 96 years old came up to me last summer and said "George how fast would you have been if you trained harder" I said we will never know.
