I practiced a few lenghts of breaststroke the other day and had an instructor watch me. He suggested pulling the arms in almost a dog -paddle like fashion, with the hands going no more than shoulder width all the way through the stroke. It did this a few times and it felt pretty good. However, it looks like recommendations on this site and others is to open the arms much wider and higher in the water.
Is this the newer method? Perhaps, he just knows the way that he was taught many years ago. I assume that stroke technique recommendations change over time and there's some debate over what works and what doesn't. Is this an accurate statement???
As always, thanks for your insight!
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Thanks for the links. Very helpful. I think he was showing me in terms of something I could do to take a break from freestyle during an open water swim. For sure, the pics and the video show a much wider sweep of the arms than what he showed me.
Um, what do you mean by tapered????
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Thanks for the links. Very helpful. I think he was showing me in terms of something I could do to take a break from freestyle during an open water swim. For sure, the pics and the video show a much wider sweep of the arms than what he showed me.
Um, what do you mean by tapered????
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