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
Solar:
I was counting in a 25 meter pool. I may be doing a little bit of that late catch cheating you refer to when I swim freestyle distances over a 100 though. I'm just not, by nature or preference, a distance freestyler and my stroke does break down, although occasionally I find that distance "zone" -- usually in a long course pool. And to be honest (so Lindsay doesn't scold me), I usually have fins on when I'm swimming longer distances of free because it really doesn't agree at all with my shoulders. Or sometimes when we have long set of 200s free, I do them all back instead. I think I may have tried that underbody sculling thing. It's very slow, if I recall. I could do that.
Solar:
I was counting in a 25 meter pool. I may be doing a little bit of that late catch cheating you refer to when I swim freestyle distances over a 100 though. I'm just not, by nature or preference, a distance freestyler and my stroke does break down, although occasionally I find that distance "zone" -- usually in a long course pool. And to be honest (so Lindsay doesn't scold me), I usually have fins on when I'm swimming longer distances of free because it really doesn't agree at all with my shoulders. Or sometimes when we have long set of 200s free, I do them all back instead. I think I may have tried that underbody sculling thing. It's very slow, if I recall. I could do that.
