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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One of my teammates, who likes and is a freestyler, told me that he had intentionally switched to a straight arm recovery on free on the advice of a college coach. I thought this was old school. Is anyone else teaching this?
The important question to ask here is did the coach say that this particular swimmer should try a straight arm recovery or that all swimmers should use a straight arm recovery? Lately there has been a lot of coaches saying that some swimmers do better with a straight arm recovery, far fewer saying everyone should do it.
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One of my teammates, who likes and is a freestyler, told me that he had intentionally switched to a straight arm recovery on free on the advice of a college coach. I thought this was old school. Is anyone else teaching this?
The important question to ask here is did the coach say that this particular swimmer should try a straight arm recovery or that all swimmers should use a straight arm recovery? Lately there has been a lot of coaches saying that some swimmers do better with a straight arm recovery, far fewer saying everyone should do it.
