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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Could it be possible to swim with S shaped, going with hands all the way to thighs while training and then when swimming 50 or maybe 100 free in competition to go with straight pull till belly? Train with care not to damage shoulder, doing lots of rotation and exaggerating the movements. Then, come race day, just swim the the fastest possible, which probably means losing some style...I guess when swimming longer distances such as 400 and 8000 and open water one must keep the style and technique and stretch and do the complete S so as to last longer at a medium pace.
Could it be possible to swim with S shaped, going with hands all the way to thighs while training and then when swimming 50 or maybe 100 free in competition to go with straight pull till belly? Train with care not to damage shoulder, doing lots of rotation and exaggerating the movements. Then, come race day, just swim the the fastest possible, which probably means losing some style...I guess when swimming longer distances such as 400 and 8000 and open water one must keep the style and technique and stretch and do the complete S so as to last longer at a medium pace.
