My master's coach made a comment to me today. He said that my right arm enters a little wide for my shoulder, catches there and then comes back under my body.
He says that I should be entering right in front of my shoulder,catching and letting the arm stay under the body.
Any thoughts on how to correct going wide? What should I try? Possiblity of how it should feel? I have read that some people enter wide to correct crossing over. Seems to me that I might have the opposite problem then.
Any other feed back is welcome too.
Thanks
David
Former Member
My thoughts of the S stroke is the hand enters at or very near the center, as you reach forward it drifts out about 8" then to the catch, a straight I from the catch til exit. But many may not agree. I always said after the S stroke when it was talked about that is really an I stroke.
That video is really not the best I will seach my videos and see if I can come up with a better one.
I emailed a page of videos look at Hackett the first one in the list that is printed in blue.
here it is www.swimmingcyclingrunning.com/Videos/HackettBrilliant.mpeg
Sometimes when I get tired, my arm goes wide after entry (it goes into the same 'hole' as usual then slides out). Happens worse on the left side. I used to breathe exclusively to my right... I think that the left arm would slide out to 'prop' my head up for some more air maybe? Which means I was probably lifting my head up more when I got tired too... two bad habits!
Bilateral breathing helped. It took me one entire winter season (about 6 months) until the bilateral breathing felt natural. I will still default to right-side breathing though in races.
