Videos of Freestyle timing, pulling pattern, arm position
Former Member
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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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 can agree with the first part (as long as you don't really mean truly vertical) but in the second part are you saying no Olympic swimmer fully extends their arm to the front? I presume you aren't because lots of them do, so what exactly do you mean? No swimmer leaves the front arm fully extended for very long?
What is your opinion on Popov's stroke as shown here:
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I would say he has near zero front quadrant overlap, the pulling hand leaves the front quadrant as the recovering hand enters it. Perhaps that is a way to understand "front quadrant swimming" which, as I have said is a spectrum or degree not something that has an opposite. The more front quadrant overlap there is between the pulling and recovering arms the more "front quadrant" the stroke is. Popov has near zero overlap, catchup drill has the maximum degree of overlap.
Popov is much easier to discuss than Thorpe because Popov's stroke is pretty symmetric while Thorpe's is not.
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 can agree with the first part (as long as you don't really mean truly vertical) but in the second part are you saying no Olympic swimmer fully extends their arm to the front? I presume you aren't because lots of them do, so what exactly do you mean? No swimmer leaves the front arm fully extended for very long?
What is your opinion on Popov's stroke as shown here:
www.youtube.com/watch
I would say he has near zero front quadrant overlap, the pulling hand leaves the front quadrant as the recovering hand enters it. Perhaps that is a way to understand "front quadrant swimming" which, as I have said is a spectrum or degree not something that has an opposite. The more front quadrant overlap there is between the pulling and recovering arms the more "front quadrant" the stroke is. Popov has near zero overlap, catchup drill has the maximum degree of overlap.
Popov is much easier to discuss than Thorpe because Popov's stroke is pretty symmetric while Thorpe's is not.
