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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You've caught me out. I have no idea what my distance per stroke is. I will count sometime in the next couple days in a 25 yard pool. But I would say that I am on the high turnover end of things (although I'm pretty strong too). So I probably could benefit. Everyone on my team seems to do this sculling thing on their back, feet first, with their hands sculling above their head with a pull buoy. Does that help distance per stroke. Yes I think it does (although it's not my favorite). It's a fast one, but I donno. It's not very specific. But yes you'll see many swimmers picking this one because of the speed they're able to reach.
I evolved as a coach in a very "rich" environment. Our team counted around 60-80 young kids (forming a school basically), 30 young age groupers (11-15yo) swimming in the afternoon going to school in the morning only, 30-40Universtitary level elite swimmers (3rd best team in Canada after BC and Calgary), around 10-20 elite international level swimmers, and around 5 groups of master swimmers. Add around 15-20 triathlete, half of which performed at elite level (state or provincial) with 3-5 doing well at a higher level, and 4-6 long distance swimmers all performing in world cup circuit. And add all swimming classes to general public (swimming 1,2,3,4).
The one drill that is shared by all these groups with no exception : scullings.
You've caught me out. I have no idea what my distance per stroke is. I will count sometime in the next couple days in a 25 yard pool. But I would say that I am on the high turnover end of things (although I'm pretty strong too). So I probably could benefit. Everyone on my team seems to do this sculling thing on their back, feet first, with their hands sculling above their head with a pull buoy. Does that help distance per stroke. Yes I think it does (although it's not my favorite). It's a fast one, but I donno. It's not very specific. But yes you'll see many swimmers picking this one because of the speed they're able to reach.
I evolved as a coach in a very "rich" environment. Our team counted around 60-80 young kids (forming a school basically), 30 young age groupers (11-15yo) swimming in the afternoon going to school in the morning only, 30-40Universtitary level elite swimmers (3rd best team in Canada after BC and Calgary), around 10-20 elite international level swimmers, and around 5 groups of master swimmers. Add around 15-20 triathlete, half of which performed at elite level (state or provincial) with 3-5 doing well at a higher level, and 4-6 long distance swimmers all performing in world cup circuit. And add all swimming classes to general public (swimming 1,2,3,4).
The one drill that is shared by all these groups with no exception : scullings.
