The first loss of a master is memory, the second...I forgot. I probably have already asked this question, but here goes:
Does anyone bring their arm straight down and out after the grab? I am talking no sculling, no lateral movement, just bringing the arm straight parallel with the line maintaining the elbow high position. This would be to avoid crossing the midline with your forearm. Even though I breathe on the left, I still rotate fully to the right (a learned and trained and voluntary movement), but even so my right forearm tends to the middle, while my left arm has less pull and is erractic. When I learned the crawl it was from watching Tarzan movies, later when I was 16 and in a USA high school they taught the S shaped movement or the straight down and back. In those days the breathing was to one side. Last question: aside from timing both methods, what are your preferences on the long dolphin versus "less dolphin" emerging sooner method of starts and turns on a 50 meter short course freestyle race? Thanks, billy fanstone
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Which drill, Solar Energy? Sculling? Forward? Backward? What exactly does it help with? The catch? The pull? I like drills usually, I'm just never sure what I'm really accomplishing when I'm sculling other than having a nice little break. Any sculling will help, those that are more specific to the part of the stroke you want to improve are likely to help even more.
I may be wrong in my diagnostic too. Would you mind telling me how many stroke per 25m you hold in normal moderate pace training?
Because sculling is a drill that improves distance per stroke mainly. If you're already well served in this department then you might not need sculling.
I don't. Because my dps (distance per stroke) is already optimal. Though I'm not a fast swimmers because of talent limitations, I feel the water as thick as if it was maple sirup (doesn't taste as good though :eek: )
But here. If you don't mind me using myself as an example. I am a poor backstroke swimmer. I do hate this stroke. I don't feel this stroke. And can't even coach it to the same level I can coach butterfly or freestyle. If I wanted to learn backstroke, I would have to work on my feeling of water. Patching the leaks (and there are many).
Which drill, Solar Energy? Sculling? Forward? Backward? What exactly does it help with? The catch? The pull? I like drills usually, I'm just never sure what I'm really accomplishing when I'm sculling other than having a nice little break. Any sculling will help, those that are more specific to the part of the stroke you want to improve are likely to help even more.
I may be wrong in my diagnostic too. Would you mind telling me how many stroke per 25m you hold in normal moderate pace training?
Because sculling is a drill that improves distance per stroke mainly. If you're already well served in this department then you might not need sculling.
I don't. Because my dps (distance per stroke) is already optimal. Though I'm not a fast swimmers because of talent limitations, I feel the water as thick as if it was maple sirup (doesn't taste as good though :eek: )
But here. If you don't mind me using myself as an example. I am a poor backstroke swimmer. I do hate this stroke. I don't feel this stroke. And can't even coach it to the same level I can coach butterfly or freestyle. If I wanted to learn backstroke, I would have to work on my feeling of water. Patching the leaks (and there are many).
