With a swimmer that is using a rather straight arm pull, at least to the point where the hand is under the shoulder/the arm is vertical, what sorts of drills or focus points will help them move to/practice more of a high elbow/bent elbow style beyond just explaining/showing them the high elbow pull?
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for the underwater pull, you can have them scrape their thumbnails down their vertical mid-lines as they pull down (from the tip of the forehead to the bottom of the gut). Once he gets used to that, then have him put a hand's distance between his thumbnail and his vertical mid-line as he pulls.
for a windmill overarm recovery, there's always the fingertip drag drill.
--Sean
EDIT: Be careful with the mid-line thumb drill, though, because, if they aren't very experienced swimmers, they may start cutting out their reaches as they focus on touching thumbnail to forehead. Reach, then pull back to the forehead.
for the underwater pull, you can have them scrape their thumbnails down their vertical mid-lines as they pull down (from the tip of the forehead to the bottom of the gut). Once he gets used to that, then have him put a hand's distance between his thumbnail and his vertical mid-line as he pulls.
for a windmill overarm recovery, there's always the fingertip drag drill.
--Sean
EDIT: Be careful with the mid-line thumb drill, though, because, if they aren't very experienced swimmers, they may start cutting out their reaches as they focus on touching thumbnail to forehead. Reach, then pull back to the forehead.
