I am so disgusted--I've done the TI drills, had lessons, had swim team college kids give me tips, yet I still just can't seem to get the freestyle arm action right. Do you exactly move your arm in the recovery phase the same as you move it in the fingertip drag drills? Or do you do a wind up motion of your shoulder to bring the arm out of the water? No matter what I try, I am so pathetically slow--more often than not, I am feeling like it is all wrong. I am a good breakstroker and decent flyer, and great backstroker, but geez, I need to be able to do the free - I swim about 12 miles a week. Any tips are sooooo appreciated.:bow:
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The fingertip drag drill is used to promote a high elbow recovery as well as demonstrating how loose your hands, wrists, elbows can potentially be. Proper recovery (if there is such a thing given the various styles of freestyle...hence the name of the stroke) is a rotated shoulder almost out of the water with a side lateral raise movement (not a windup movement), slightly bent at the elbow (which is high) with loose wrist and fingers utilizing very little energy throughout the recovery phase and into the beginning of the catch.
Thank you for the very nicely defined explanation Typhoons Coach. I will copy this and commit to memory!:bow:
The fingertip drag drill is used to promote a high elbow recovery as well as demonstrating how loose your hands, wrists, elbows can potentially be. Proper recovery (if there is such a thing given the various styles of freestyle...hence the name of the stroke) is a rotated shoulder almost out of the water with a side lateral raise movement (not a windup movement), slightly bent at the elbow (which is high) with loose wrist and fingers utilizing very little energy throughout the recovery phase and into the beginning of the catch.
Thank you for the very nicely defined explanation Typhoons Coach. I will copy this and commit to memory!:bow:
