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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Our coach has us do sculling drills that are basically just the first part of the pull. You do the catch and until you get vertical, then stop and do it again. We do it with two arms at a time, because it's hard to go anywhere doing this with two arms, let alone one. Also, you're not supposed to kick very much. That helps a lot with the catch and the initial pull.
I forgot, we do usually 4x25 of these, sometimes 8x25.
Our coach has us do sculling drills that are basically just the first part of the pull. You do the catch and until you get vertical, then stop and do it again. We do it with two arms at a time, because it's hard to go anywhere doing this with two arms, let alone one. Also, you're not supposed to kick very much. That helps a lot with the catch and the initial pull.
I forgot, we do usually 4x25 of these, sometimes 8x25.
