Need help on Freestyle

Former Member over 19 years ago

I have always been a good breaststroker. I can swim breaststroke for 1-2 miles without stopping with no problem. But I can't swim freestyle for a long distance. I have to stop and take a 30 second break for every 100 yards. Does anyone know what my problem is? Perhaps I don't have the correct technique? I have noticed when I am swimming freestyle, I don't feel as relax as when I am swimming breaststroke. Perhaps just lack of practice? Please help. By the way, have anyone tried TI swimming? Is it worth it to take the TI workshop? Thank you all for your help.

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Let me first begin by telling you right off the bat, I invented an EVF training device so I'm a proponent of Early Vertical Forearm training. So the information I'm giving is biases. I love the streamlining information TI shows you, it's important and I have been teaching it before TI was coined. I show the TI DVD to my students and they repeat the drills and I try to have them know them by their names. There are many TI drills that are awesome and I've been coaching for over thirty years and use many. TI is great but TI is TI, one of many valuable teaching tools. With that being said, I'm a propulsive nut and being able to acquire an Early Vertical Forearm position, to me, is synonymous with going fast. I've come across some spectacular underwater videos from a website showing that an EVF is common to every stroke, even the breaststroke. Please look at these, because seeing is believing ( I'll put them at the end of this thread). Next, in an interview of eleven coaches at the recent Senior Nationals held in Irvine CA., who were asked what is the first thing they'd empahsize when teaching the freestyle, nine said the "catch" (EVF)! Lift forces that were first introduced my Dr. James E. Councilman in 1970 showed that the hand didn't simply move backwards but in a out to in motion from the outside of the shoulder, toward the midline and then out toward the hip. His research also showed that great swimmers began their stroke with a hand and arm motion that looked as if the swimmer extended their arm over a barrel (the catch). In fact, great swimmers like Mark Spitz entered and exited their hand in the same space, meaning the body was moved over the hand, thus the term catching water (holding it and moving the body over it). The difficulty of learning the catch made many coaches, even to this day, think of the catch as an innate gift. Today we know that this critical skill, like all skills, can be learned and improved by anyone able to learn. If you are capable of learning, you can learn how to swim faster by improving your EVF. The idea of the EVF or catch has been around forever but the equipment and strategies that effectively train the critical skill are just emerging. You can greatly improve your time in all strokes by learning how to improve it. Good Luck, Coach T. P.S. And I didn't say improving your streamling and your kick and other things weren't important, -- I'm saying, if there's one thing you must key on if you want to swim faster, it better be your EVF. Seeing is believing -- If you want to swim fast, work to improve your EVF! www.limmatsharks.com/CrawlAnalysis www.swimmingcyclingrunning.com/.../HackettBrilliant.mpeg http://www.svl.ch/ElbowsHigh/ www.svl.ch/.../ swimdownhill.com/.../page3.html youtube.com/watch video.google.com/videoplay youtube.com/watch youtube.com/watch youtube.com/watch www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-TomDolan400IMHeat6Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-VDH200mHeat6Sydney2000.mpg http: www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-IanThorpeFront.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-GrantHackett1500mGoldSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-Bennett&Poll400mHeat3Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-BennettGold&PollBronze400mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-KrayzelburgGoldOR&WelshSilver100m19-22Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NakamuraSilver&MocanuGoldOR100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../BackstrokeTurn-SwimcityMediaCentre-Theloke&Krayzelburg100mSemiSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NeilWalker100mHeat5Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-KrisztinaEgerszegiTraining.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-BethBotsfordGold100m19Atlanta1996.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NakamuraSilver&MocanuGoldOR100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-AngelaKennedyTrainingwithCommentary.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-TomMalchow200mSemiSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-Sydney2000-unknown01.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-O'Neill&Hyman200mPerth1998.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-QuannGold,Poewe&Kovacs100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-Fioravanti200mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-AlessioBoggiattoSydney2000.mpg finisinc.blogspot.com/atom.xml swimdownhill.com/.../page3.html
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Let me first begin by telling you right off the bat, I invented an EVF training device so I'm a proponent of Early Vertical Forearm training. So the information I'm giving is biases. I love the streamlining information TI shows you, it's important and I have been teaching it before TI was coined. I show the TI DVD to my students and they repeat the drills and I try to have them know them by their names. There are many TI drills that are awesome and I've been coaching for over thirty years and use many. TI is great but TI is TI, one of many valuable teaching tools. With that being said, I'm a propulsive nut and being able to acquire an Early Vertical Forearm position, to me, is synonymous with going fast. I've come across some spectacular underwater videos from a website showing that an EVF is common to every stroke, even the breaststroke. Please look at these, because seeing is believing ( I'll put them at the end of this thread). Next, in an interview of eleven coaches at the recent Senior Nationals held in Irvine CA., who were asked what is the first thing they'd empahsize when teaching the freestyle, nine said the "catch" (EVF)! Lift forces that were first introduced my Dr. James E. Councilman in 1970 showed that the hand didn't simply move backwards but in a out to in motion from the outside of the shoulder, toward the midline and then out toward the hip. His research also showed that great swimmers began their stroke with a hand and arm motion that looked as if the swimmer extended their arm over a barrel (the catch). In fact, great swimmers like Mark Spitz entered and exited their hand in the same space, meaning the body was moved over the hand, thus the term catching water (holding it and moving the body over it). The difficulty of learning the catch made many coaches, even to this day, think of the catch as an innate gift. Today we know that this critical skill, like all skills, can be learned and improved by anyone able to learn. If you are capable of learning, you can learn how to swim faster by improving your EVF. The idea of the EVF or catch has been around forever but the equipment and strategies that effectively train the critical skill are just emerging. You can greatly improve your time in all strokes by learning how to improve it. Good Luck, Coach T. P.S. And I didn't say improving your streamling and your kick and other things weren't important, -- I'm saying, if there's one thing you must key on if you want to swim faster, it better be your EVF. Seeing is believing -- If you want to swim fast, work to improve your EVF! www.limmatsharks.com/CrawlAnalysis www.swimmingcyclingrunning.com/.../HackettBrilliant.mpeg http://www.svl.ch/ElbowsHigh/ www.svl.ch/.../ swimdownhill.com/.../page3.html youtube.com/watch video.google.com/videoplay youtube.com/watch youtube.com/watch youtube.com/watch www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-TomDolan400IMHeat6Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-VDH200mHeat6Sydney2000.mpg http: www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-IanThorpeFront.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-GrantHackett1500mGoldSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-Bennett&Poll400mHeat3Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Crawl-SwimcityMediaCentre-BennettGold&PollBronze400mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-KrayzelburgGoldOR&WelshSilver100m19-22Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NakamuraSilver&MocanuGoldOR100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../BackstrokeTurn-SwimcityMediaCentre-Theloke&Krayzelburg100mSemiSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NeilWalker100mHeat5Sydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-KrisztinaEgerszegiTraining.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-BethBotsfordGold100m19Atlanta1996.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Backstroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-NakamuraSilver&MocanuGoldOR100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-AngelaKennedyTrainingwithCommentary.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-TomMalchow200mSemiSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-Sydney2000-unknown01.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-O'Neill&Hyman200mPerth1998.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-QuannGold,Poewe&Kovacs100mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-Fioravanti200mSydney2000.mpg www.nyhoff.net/.../Breaststroke-SwimcityMediaCentre-AlessioBoggiattoSydney2000.mpg finisinc.blogspot.com/atom.xml swimdownhill.com/.../page3.html
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