I have used the "Kaizen's" head down, lengthening and rolling technique on working out my crawl and it's coming along. Breasstroke I am not too bad on...and I just want to finesse my technique and such.
What tips do you all have for breaststokers like me? I lengthen and glide smoothly and can move along quite fast while really swimming slowly. I am mostly curious about breathing as the undulations of breaststroke work the traps and neck a bit.
I am trying to get my head face down on my glide, for streamlining etc. Just trying to see what others have to say about their breaststroke breathing.
Rich
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The neutral position is exactly that. The more streamlined and "neutral" you stay, the better off your stroke will be. A good drill to fix head position: put a tennis ball under your chin and swim *** holding that ball in place. You'll swear that you will drown and choke on water and will loose the ball a million times your first try, but eventually you get used to the feeling. It's a great drill to get the feel of keeping your head down in position. When you can do that and feel comfortable, try swimming without the ball and feel teh difference.
Remember you never want to thorw your head up and down when breathing. You go where your head goes in any stroke. Always be diving forward with your head in streamline. If you throw your head up and down, you'll waste energy moving yuor body up and down rather than FORWARD...with forward being the idea direction to go. :wiggle:
The neutral position is exactly that. The more streamlined and "neutral" you stay, the better off your stroke will be. A good drill to fix head position: put a tennis ball under your chin and swim *** holding that ball in place. You'll swear that you will drown and choke on water and will loose the ball a million times your first try, but eventually you get used to the feeling. It's a great drill to get the feel of keeping your head down in position. When you can do that and feel comfortable, try swimming without the ball and feel teh difference.
Remember you never want to thorw your head up and down when breathing. You go where your head goes in any stroke. Always be diving forward with your head in streamline. If you throw your head up and down, you'll waste energy moving yuor body up and down rather than FORWARD...with forward being the idea direction to go. :wiggle:
