i like to feel and teach the generation of motion. this is easily missed if one starts from a push off.
I do this drill all the time. Love it. I think of it as putting my body in the Y postition, with my hands just a bit past shoulder position and start pressing with the chest with the rest of the body flowing though. This is called the caterpillar drill. Very slow.
I also do the drill George suggests. But I call it chest press fly. Arms at the side, doing the body dolphin, leading with the head, pressing with the chest. Last time my coach saw me doing this in warm up, she said I was very TI, George. ;) I'll do this drill on top of and below the water.
BUT I think the underwater kicking is equally important for learning a good body dolphin and a strong SDK, even more for the SDK perhaps. And I like to do them in a superman streamline position that mimics the starts and turns of a race. So I do four point dolphin kick shooters from a push (front, left side, right side, back) regularly with and without my monofin. I love my monofin. It's a rocking mermaid workout, you feel just like a dolphin and it's great for the core as Muppet notes. But if you really want to feel like a dolphin do the fly spin drill I posted on the other thread. Now, that is very fishlike.
Interesting, I do all the above much more than I swim regular fly. But my fly seems to be improving some.
i like to feel and teach the generation of motion. this is easily missed if one starts from a push off.
I do this drill all the time. Love it. I think of it as putting my body in the Y postition, with my hands just a bit past shoulder position and start pressing with the chest with the rest of the body flowing though. This is called the caterpillar drill. Very slow.
I also do the drill George suggests. But I call it chest press fly. Arms at the side, doing the body dolphin, leading with the head, pressing with the chest. Last time my coach saw me doing this in warm up, she said I was very TI, George. ;) I'll do this drill on top of and below the water.
BUT I think the underwater kicking is equally important for learning a good body dolphin and a strong SDK, even more for the SDK perhaps. And I like to do them in a superman streamline position that mimics the starts and turns of a race. So I do four point dolphin kick shooters from a push (front, left side, right side, back) regularly with and without my monofin. I love my monofin. It's a rocking mermaid workout, you feel just like a dolphin and it's great for the core as Muppet notes. But if you really want to feel like a dolphin do the fly spin drill I posted on the other thread. Now, that is very fishlike.
Interesting, I do all the above much more than I swim regular fly. But my fly seems to be improving some.
