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End of Controversy - No catch-up or straight arm catch

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I know everyone has been watching the Olympics and if anyone sees someone (in any stroke and at any distance) not showing an Early Vertical Forearm (EVF) stroke please point it out to me. In the men’s 400 Fr Relay, Lezak’s better EVF stroke helped him touch the wall before Bernard who dropped his elbows in the last few strokes. These Olympic Games should put to rest the controversy of the catch-up stroke (never once performed by any freestyler in these Olympics). So what you see someone do in a drill (catch-up) is not done in competitive swims when it counts!! The high elbow at the front quadrant of every stroke is so pronounced that every lay-on-a-straight-arm proponent has to become a convert (I know it’s not ever going to happen). I’m anxious to hear the rationalizations and support from the opposition. If you’re watching with your eyes open, there’s no catch-up and no straight-arm catch - PERIOD!!! If you want to make significant gains in your swimming focus on improving your Early Vertical Forearm technique. Improving your EVF should take about 6 to 8 weeks and when that becomes better you should focus on improving a good streamlined position by spending as much time as possible on your side while making sure that your catch begins early. Of course athleticism goes hand in hand with improvement. But you get my drift. Nuff-said.
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    Oddly, until I saw some footage of Becky underwater, I had a great deal of difficulty understanding what EVF really was. Not now! Cheers Tom. Here's some great video's and pictures too. I show my swimmers these. Phelps and Thorpe At approximately 30sec, 48 sec, 1min, and more, you’ll see the hand enter from both Phelps and Thorpe when the opposite hand is in the EVF position and during the power phase. www.youtube.com/watch www.youtube.com/watch Slow motion – You’ll see the forearm in an EVF position as the other hand enters. www.youtube.com/watch Grant Hackett – Great EVF and then the hand enters www.youtube.com/watch Jason Lezak – The most pronounced EVF of all the competitors who’s hand enters the water while the other is in the EVF position. www.youtube.com/watch Ziegler Holds off Laure Manaudou = Awesome looks at when one are is in the EVF position the other enters the water. www.youtube.com/watch A picture frame by frame comparison of Thorpe and Hackett www.svl.ch/.../ A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So the rival florist hired Hugh Mac Taggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.
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  • Former Member
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    Oddly, until I saw some footage of Becky underwater, I had a great deal of difficulty understanding what EVF really was. Not now! Cheers Tom. Here's some great video's and pictures too. I show my swimmers these. Phelps and Thorpe At approximately 30sec, 48 sec, 1min, and more, you’ll see the hand enter from both Phelps and Thorpe when the opposite hand is in the EVF position and during the power phase. www.youtube.com/watch www.youtube.com/watch Slow motion – You’ll see the forearm in an EVF position as the other hand enters. www.youtube.com/watch Grant Hackett – Great EVF and then the hand enters www.youtube.com/watch Jason Lezak – The most pronounced EVF of all the competitors who’s hand enters the water while the other is in the EVF position. www.youtube.com/watch Ziegler Holds off Laure Manaudou = Awesome looks at when one are is in the EVF position the other enters the water. www.youtube.com/watch A picture frame by frame comparison of Thorpe and Hackett www.svl.ch/.../ A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So the rival florist hired Hugh Mac Taggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.
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