I have been doing this drill with some very young swimmers. Kick on your back with your arms at your sides, hunch your shoulders, try to squeeze them forward. Rest a pull buoy on your chest. The bouy should stay on your chest or float directly above your belly button. Kick on your back, arms at your sides, hunch your shoulders, while looking at the bouy, try to keep the pull bouy from floating away from your center. Nice and easy 25's. Say, for 10 minutes. As a warm-up maybe.
Try it. I'd like to know, compared to what I have found, what this does for you. Think of it as an out of the box turn drill.
This is a drill we do at WCM pretty regularly as a check up for body position. The idea is to have your body become more "boat shaped". It's also taught at the WCM Intensive Camps in the Spring.
Good drill (although we don't use gear, just our bodies).
A drill from the past, we used a small kick board. I have not done that since 1945. That small kick board was made out of wood, we also would use a waterpolo ball, they were made of leather then.
What did it do for you? Was it beneficial? Why did we move away from this drill? I have never seen this drill until last weekend when I heard Bob Groseth talk. Interesting. Certainly builds core strength.
Everything helps with swimming. It was is a combined thing, we become good swimmers by experimenting with everything that is available. Everthing we do in the water gives us a true feeling for the water. I now am not into drills. Just swim and swim but always thinking about my stroke technique. Every day someone comes up with a new old drill. The only feel drills I do now are sculling - front words. backwords, sideways, feet first on the stomach and on the back. These are all from when I taught sycronized swimming.
I did this recently. I liked it a lot better than streamline with arms over head. My pool doesn't have Bask Stroke flags so the knot on my head was a warning to pick a mark with peripheral vision.
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Good drill (although we don't use gear, just our bodies).
So, how do you know if the bouy floated away if you don't have a bouy. You must have misunderstood. The drill I speak of uses a bouy positioned on the chest or allowed to float just above your belly button. It isn't just kicking on your back. Or am I confused by your terminology? Try it with a bouy and you will see it is a completely different drill.
A drill from the past, we used a small kick board. I have not done that since 1945. That small kick board was made out of wood, we also would use a waterpolo ball, they were made of leather then. We also used the large wood lane divider bouys.
