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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George is right-if you look at Peirsol or Lochte swimming they swim w/ their pinkies out from what I can tell. It's hard to tell how their hands are oriented when they exit but Swimming Fastest advocates entering w/ the pinkie down , pinky out on the 2nd peak, and thumb barely ahead of the pinky on the exit if I am reading the diagrams well. In my opinion the three-peak method is fastest, I used to use it in club swimming to go 54. Now I can't seem to get my arms to remember the motion, and I go thumb out during the pull. I wonder if it's a coincidence that I am stuck at 1:13
George is right-if you look at Peirsol or Lochte swimming they swim w/ their pinkies out from what I can tell. It's hard to tell how their hands are oriented when they exit but Swimming Fastest advocates entering w/ the pinkie down , pinky out on the 2nd peak, and thumb barely ahead of the pinky on the exit if I am reading the diagrams well. In my opinion the three-peak method is fastest, I used to use it in club swimming to go 54. Now I can't seem to get my arms to remember the motion, and I go thumb out during the pull. I wonder if it's a coincidence that I am stuck at 1:13
