Last night I went to a coached practice for the first time in a long time, and the coach had me and one other person do backstroke pinkie out/pinkie in instead of thumb out/pinkie in. That was the first time I had ever had a coach tell me to do something like that, and I didn't get a chance to ask the purpose. Do any of you coaches or more experienced swimmers know why a coach might tell a swimmer to do that?
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You are right Quickguy but that is not what we are doing.
I don't think any of you understand. When the stroke is at the finsh when swimming backstroke it does not finish thumbs up. If it does you are a mechanical swimmer and you are not flowing. It should finish with the palm facing the bottom. With the rotation of the body the hands are in a horizontal position. As the hand exits the little pinkie rises slightly a head of the thumb. It is not pinkie strait up and thumb strait to the bottom.
Quick Hold your right arm straight out in front of you.
Put your left hand on the tricep of your right arm.
Have your hand horizontal to the floor...tilt the pinkie up ever so little raise your arm over your head and rotate guess what the hand is ready to enter.
Then do it with the thumb strait up and the pinkie down and rise your hand now shoulder hurts and the hand is not in the postion to enter the water.
You are right Quickguy but that is not what we are doing.
I don't think any of you understand. When the stroke is at the finsh when swimming backstroke it does not finish thumbs up. If it does you are a mechanical swimmer and you are not flowing. It should finish with the palm facing the bottom. With the rotation of the body the hands are in a horizontal position. As the hand exits the little pinkie rises slightly a head of the thumb. It is not pinkie strait up and thumb strait to the bottom.
Quick Hold your right arm straight out in front of you.
Put your left hand on the tricep of your right arm.
Have your hand horizontal to the floor...tilt the pinkie up ever so little raise your arm over your head and rotate guess what the hand is ready to enter.
Then do it with the thumb strait up and the pinkie down and rise your hand now shoulder hurts and the hand is not in the postion to enter the water.
