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 have to say that I am really perplexed by Geek and Gull's constant complaining about this so called TI marketing onslaught they perceive from Terry's postings. This is a SWIMMING related forum isn't it? Terry has devoted himself to the study of swimming. I see absolutely nothing wrong with referencing his TI materials in his postings when he deems that it is directly relevant to the discussion at hand. In each of his postings where he makes a reference to TI, he carefully relates the reference directly to the relevant topic of discussion doesn't he??....b/c that is what his materials are all about. This is no different than what every other person who ever wrote a book or article on something does when they are also discussing a topic that is directly relevant to thier personal writings.....In fact I will go so far as to say that it is almost unavoidable for those people that find themselves in a similar position as Terry does here on this forum. I personally have never had any problems with it.... nor have I had any problems with the many other posters who do the exact same thing.....including George. Bottom Line: If someone has written on a subject that is being openly discussed, then it seems unreasonable to not be able to reference that written material when it is directly relevant to the discussion....So I just don't get these complaints?
So Please do us all a favor Geek and Gull.....Stop the whining please! If you don't like the comments made by Terry then please go to a different thread.
I hope I'm not going to get punished by the Mods now for speaking out like this??....I've tried to sit back and stay out of this, but I guess its just getting under my skin now and so I'm speaking out about it. I apologize to anyone I may be offending here.
My Two Cents Worth, (Which is usually worth far less than 2 whole cents BTW!...LOL!)
Newmastersswimmer
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I have to say that I am really perplexed by Geek and Gull's constant complaining about this so called TI marketing onslaught they perceive from Terry's postings. This is a SWIMMING related forum isn't it? Terry has devoted himself to the study of swimming. I see absolutely nothing wrong with referencing his TI materials in his postings when he deems that it is directly relevant to the discussion at hand. In each of his postings where he makes a reference to TI, he carefully relates the reference directly to the relevant topic of discussion doesn't he??....b/c that is what his materials are all about. This is no different than what every other person who ever wrote a book or article on something does when they are also discussing a topic that is directly relevant to thier personal writings.....In fact I will go so far as to say that it is almost unavoidable for those people that find themselves in a similar position as Terry does here on this forum. I personally have never had any problems with it.... nor have I had any problems with the many other posters who do the exact same thing.....including George. Bottom Line: If someone has written on a subject that is being openly discussed, then it seems unreasonable to not be able to reference that written material when it is directly relevant to the discussion....So I just don't get these complaints?
So Please do us all a favor Geek and Gull.....Stop the whining please! If you don't like the comments made by Terry then please go to a different thread.
I hope I'm not going to get punished by the Mods now for speaking out like this??....I've tried to sit back and stay out of this, but I guess its just getting under my skin now and so I'm speaking out about it. I apologize to anyone I may be offending here.
My Two Cents Worth, (Which is usually worth far less than 2 whole cents BTW!...LOL!)
Newmastersswimmer
