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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OK Solar. I will do the particular sculling drill that you tell me is your favorite. I will also make my son the triathlete do it. I'm glad you don't like the one I described above because I dislike it intensely. I'm usually on my stomach going very slowly if I bother to scull. I need more help on free than back or fly. Hold on for a while. I'll try to find footage so everything be more understandable.
Can you tell me a bit more about this shoulder pain you get? Does the mere thought breaststroke pulling (with a pull buoy) is sufficient to trigger this pain?
Because I'd say that among all pulling actions, breaststroke is probably the one that uses sculling the most. And some cool sculling drills use the same angles as the breaststroke wide pulling.
Also, one thing about sculling is that you do it to improve sensations, but if you don't transfert those sensations in the full stroke immediately, it doesn't pay off as much. Therefore a set (with a pull buoy for instance) can be alternating 50m sculling / 50m freestyle (count the number of strokes).
But yeah. Get back with your stroke count. Tell me about your pains in the shoulder. Let me find good demos or at least good images, and we shall begin after that.
OK Solar. I will do the particular sculling drill that you tell me is your favorite. I will also make my son the triathlete do it. I'm glad you don't like the one I described above because I dislike it intensely. I'm usually on my stomach going very slowly if I bother to scull. I need more help on free than back or fly. Hold on for a while. I'll try to find footage so everything be more understandable.
Can you tell me a bit more about this shoulder pain you get? Does the mere thought breaststroke pulling (with a pull buoy) is sufficient to trigger this pain?
Because I'd say that among all pulling actions, breaststroke is probably the one that uses sculling the most. And some cool sculling drills use the same angles as the breaststroke wide pulling.
Also, one thing about sculling is that you do it to improve sensations, but if you don't transfert those sensations in the full stroke immediately, it doesn't pay off as much. Therefore a set (with a pull buoy for instance) can be alternating 50m sculling / 50m freestyle (count the number of strokes).
But yeah. Get back with your stroke count. Tell me about your pains in the shoulder. Let me find good demos or at least good images, and we shall begin after that.
