I have watched lots of videos of swimmers. Lots of these swimmers are swimming with there heads almost underwater and are inserting their hands very close to their heads.
How important is head position?
How important is hand entry?
Many follow the directions listed in a book or on a DVD and drive the hands forward.
They go to the catch then the elbow drops.
The butt drags and the kick does not do anything to help keep the butt near the surface.
How can we solve the butt drag???
Do we think everyone should swim the same or are swimmers needs different???
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The secret of the breakout is to come up and swim while you are travelling faster underwater then when you are swimming. Don't even try to come up if you are travelling at swim speed or slower.
George:
I know that after my first few walls my streamline stinks (mostly due to the lack of shoulder flexibility, I'm working hard on that) so my speed off the walls drops fast. Should I shorten my SDKs to break out at a higher speed and then lengthen that distance as my streamline improves?
I do find that as a really tire, I start coming up more vertically than horizontally. When rising to breakout do you flow up like a submarine (horizontally) or swim up at a slight angle?
Is there a disadvantage of coming off the wall at the surface and never real spending any time full underwater?
:notworthy:
The secret of the breakout is to come up and swim while you are travelling faster underwater then when you are swimming. Don't even try to come up if you are travelling at swim speed or slower.
George:
I know that after my first few walls my streamline stinks (mostly due to the lack of shoulder flexibility, I'm working hard on that) so my speed off the walls drops fast. Should I shorten my SDKs to break out at a higher speed and then lengthen that distance as my streamline improves?
I do find that as a really tire, I start coming up more vertically than horizontally. When rising to breakout do you flow up like a submarine (horizontally) or swim up at a slight angle?
Is there a disadvantage of coming off the wall at the surface and never real spending any time full underwater?
:notworthy:
