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.
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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.
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.
