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
Lindsay:
Good question! I counted without fins. :thhbbb: But I then proceeded to do some nice race pace fly 50s with fins, my personal favorite, and went 30, 29, 28 and did it again. No shoulder pain yet.
Just to be annoying, I'm going to count with fins too. Usually when I wear fins, they're just floating on top of the water. I don't kick much with them (except to SDK). But since my legs are quite strong from all my irrelevant, controversial running cross-training, I'm thinking that if I actually kick hard with my fins, my stroke count will be pretty low.
Solar:
We did a lot of kicking and strokes last night, so I didn't do much free. I counted in the midst of 3 x 300s where we alternated 50 swim/50 kick. How did you know I was counting on 50s?! You are clearly one of those very good USS coaches.
Also, I was definitely using a quite moderate pace as the 300s were between sets of quality 50s, so that probably elongated my stroke. I'll try 200s (Although the 200 free is another event I will never swim in competition. I think I swam it only once or twice my entire youth career.) You're right, though, if I picked up the pace and focused on more than a 50, I'd probably go above 13. I usually do 3 SDKs off my turns though. Thanks. I'll keep counting and report back.
Lindsay:
Good question! I counted without fins. :thhbbb: But I then proceeded to do some nice race pace fly 50s with fins, my personal favorite, and went 30, 29, 28 and did it again. No shoulder pain yet.
Just to be annoying, I'm going to count with fins too. Usually when I wear fins, they're just floating on top of the water. I don't kick much with them (except to SDK). But since my legs are quite strong from all my irrelevant, controversial running cross-training, I'm thinking that if I actually kick hard with my fins, my stroke count will be pretty low.
Solar:
We did a lot of kicking and strokes last night, so I didn't do much free. I counted in the midst of 3 x 300s where we alternated 50 swim/50 kick. How did you know I was counting on 50s?! You are clearly one of those very good USS coaches.
Also, I was definitely using a quite moderate pace as the 300s were between sets of quality 50s, so that probably elongated my stroke. I'll try 200s (Although the 200 free is another event I will never swim in competition. I think I swam it only once or twice my entire youth career.) You're right, though, if I picked up the pace and focused on more than a 50, I'd probably go above 13. I usually do 3 SDKs off my turns though. Thanks. I'll keep counting and report back.
