Videos of Freestyle timing, pulling pattern, arm position
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Great Videos to show your swimmers. Good stuff.
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.
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Slow motion – You’ll see the forearm in an EVF position as the other hand enters.
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Grant Hackett – Great EVF and then the hand enters
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Jason Lezak – The most pronounced EVF of all the competitors who’s hand enters the water while the other is in the EVF position.
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Ziegler Holds off Laure Manaudou = Awesome looks at when one are is in the EVF position the other enters the water.
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Rebecca Adlington Olympic 400 m Freestyle Great Britian – Her EVF is gorgeous and her timing is great too.
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The underwater footage of Adlington's 800 Fr swim shows the stroke that I try to teach every swimmer (sprinter to distance). That's the style that I'm a proponent of and Doc Councilman advocated it back in the late 60's and early 70's. He didn't call the catch an EVF but I think he would have been okay with the acronym (I pray). The opposite of a catch is a dropped-elbow. What is the opposite of front quadrant (Rear-quadrant)?
Each competitive stroke can be separated into four different segments or quadrants. The front quadrant is where the "setting-up" of the stroke or a propulsive position is initiated; the beginning of the second quadrant and the end of the first quadrant is where power from the stroke occurs; the third quadrant where the recovery is initiated and the fourth quadrant is where the recovery makes the transition to the entry. The all important EVF position can be found somewhere in the first quadrant of each stroke.
No Olympic swimmer is without some form of EVF - No Olympic swimmer swims with a straight arm underwater at the beginning of their stroke.
I'm bothered by the term front quadrant swimming because everyone except catch-up drill swimmers use the front-quadrant to swim. Maybe I'm reading too much into the term but I wish people wouldn't use it. What do you think? Is front quadrant more like mirror image swimming?
The underwater footage of Adlington's 800 Fr swim shows the stroke that I try to teach every swimmer (sprinter to distance). That's the style that I'm a proponent of and Doc Councilman advocated it back in the late 60's and early 70's. He didn't call the catch an EVF but I think he would have been okay with the acronym (I pray). The opposite of a catch is a dropped-elbow. What is the opposite of front quadrant (Rear-quadrant)?
Each competitive stroke can be separated into four different segments or quadrants. The front quadrant is where the "setting-up" of the stroke or a propulsive position is initiated; the beginning of the second quadrant and the end of the first quadrant is where power from the stroke occurs; the third quadrant where the recovery is initiated and the fourth quadrant is where the recovery makes the transition to the entry. The all important EVF position can be found somewhere in the first quadrant of each stroke.
No Olympic swimmer is without some form of EVF - No Olympic swimmer swims with a straight arm underwater at the beginning of their stroke.
I'm bothered by the term front quadrant swimming because everyone except catch-up drill swimmers use the front-quadrant to swim. Maybe I'm reading too much into the term but I wish people wouldn't use it. What do you think? Is front quadrant more like mirror image swimming?
