A few weeks ago at a masters workout (I am usually on my own) the coach had us do a 10 2 drill, which I hadn't done before. The idea was to swim free with your arms entering the water at 10 and 2 o'clock to avoid crossing the center line. It felt quite weird. Since that time I have been tracking my stroke more, and I think I do cross the center line, or at least run right along it. The other day I tried to focus on brushing my thumbs along the sides of the black stripe on the bottom of the pool, leaving the stripe itself untouched until my hands/arms passed out of my vision and under my body.
Here's my question. The fact that even this adjustment feels a little weird suggests that maybe I cross the line more than I recognize. What are the physics of this, and should I be trying to reform my stroke in this way? Is this a big deal, or one of the idiosyncracies that we all have?
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Over the weekend, I watched Lindsay Benco's freestyle DVD. In her swimming, I couldn't help noticing that her hands do seem to cross the center line and come back to the shoulder line (through an "S"-shaped outsweep that Ahmed mentions above).
Is my observation correct, or do the hands have to cross the centerline further than Lindsay to be called "crossing the center line"?
Over the weekend, I watched Lindsay Benco's freestyle DVD. In her swimming, I couldn't help noticing that her hands do seem to cross the center line and come back to the shoulder line (through an "S"-shaped outsweep that Ahmed mentions above).
Is my observation correct, or do the hands have to cross the centerline further than Lindsay to be called "crossing the center line"?
