Breastroke pull paddles

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When I was in college (1989) my coach had the breastrokers use special breastroker paddles for breastroke pull. The hand end came half-way up my palm - so we had to make a fist over the hand end to hold them in place. The other end was wider and went all the way down my forearm. I would describe the overall shape basically as a miniature cricket bat. My coach explained to me back then that these paddles were to help breastrokers learn to use their forearms. These were the only paddles we ever used for breastroke pull **. Anyway, I've been doing some breastroke training again recently. I looked quickly on-line for breastroke paddles, but couldn't find anything close to what I used in college. Do breastrokers these days train with any "special" paddles, use regular swimming paddles, or something else? Thanks, John ** As if breastroke pull wasn't slow enough, swimming with a fist and these paddles made these sets even slower for us, but we were still grouped with the flyers and backstrokers during pull drills, who were going faster with their conventional paddles....ugghhh! No fair! There, I feel better now, thanks for listening.
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  • Former Member
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    The Finis Fulcrum brace and the techpaddle are two products that are Early Vertical Forearm (EVF) trainers. They promote an EVF positions that are important for all competitive strokes. If you go to youtube and enter EVF + Swimming you'll see some of the equipment. Coach T.
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  • Former Member
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    The Finis Fulcrum brace and the techpaddle are two products that are Early Vertical Forearm (EVF) trainers. They promote an EVF positions that are important for all competitive strokes. If you go to youtube and enter EVF + Swimming you'll see some of the equipment. Coach T.
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