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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Thanks Lindsay and Terry and all for your comments. They've been very highlightning.
Lindsay, I like your take as much as your consistancy. Though your conclusion goes against that of Sanders et al (Wave characteristics of butterfly swimming, 1995), you're not the only one disputing them.
Your take is appreciated even though I don't share it 100%.
For the record here's the conclusion of the aforementionned study.
In fact, the phase relationships among adjacent segments suggested that energy gained by raising the CM was transmitted caudally and contributed to a propulsive 'whip-like' action. Abstract available here www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../query.fcgi
Again you're not the only one disputing this theory. Maglischo prefers to think of undulation as being a reversed wave starting from feet traveling up the the head :rolleyes:
Thanks again guys.
Thanks Lindsay and Terry and all for your comments. They've been very highlightning.
Lindsay, I like your take as much as your consistancy. Though your conclusion goes against that of Sanders et al (Wave characteristics of butterfly swimming, 1995), you're not the only one disputing them.
Your take is appreciated even though I don't share it 100%.
For the record here's the conclusion of the aforementionned study.
In fact, the phase relationships among adjacent segments suggested that energy gained by raising the CM was transmitted caudally and contributed to a propulsive 'whip-like' action. Abstract available here www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../query.fcgi
Again you're not the only one disputing this theory. Maglischo prefers to think of undulation as being a reversed wave starting from feet traveling up the the head :rolleyes:
Thanks again guys.
