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 following videos and information may help you. Good luck!
The following under water videos are fun to watch and will help everyone understand that every swimmer to greater and much lesser degrees have an EVF. EVF is a catch and all swimmers should want to improve it. Don’t let some tell you that EVF is front quadrant swimming because EVF starts in the first quadrant and continues at the beginning of the second quadrant.
Each competitive stroke can be separated into four different segments or quadrants. The front quadrant is where the catch (EVF) “sets-up” the stroke into an effective propulsive position; the second quadrant is where power from a properly set up hand and forearm position occurs; the third quadrant where the release from the power phase and then recovery is initiated; and the fourth quadrant is where the recovery makes the transition to the entry. The all important EVF position or catch is located in the first quadrant and beginning of the second quadrant of each stroke.
Tell me what you think of the following videos. Simply copy and paste the URL’s into your browser and the information should come up. Good Luck Coach T.
Elbows High By Robert Boder / German translation: Felix Gmünder http://www.svl.ch/ElbowsHigh/ This video will say error – simply delete the error page and it should come up.
Faster Swimming With an Early Vertical Forearm Position in All Strokes
www.h2oustonswims.org/article...ped_elbow.htmlswimming.about.com/.../swimtec...opcatchevf.htm
In Search of the Dreaded Dropped Elbow by Coach Emmett Hines
www.h2oustonswims.org/article...ped_elbow.htmlwww.swim.ee/.../index_example.htmlwww.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Grant Hackett
www.youtube.com/watch
Ziegler Holds off Laure Manaudou
www.youtube.com/watch
A picture frame by frame comparison of Thorpe and Hackett
www.svl.ch/.../
EVF Powerpoint website
www.authorstream.com/presenta...-narration-Imp ortant-anEarly-Vertical-Forearm-Look-Results-Pictures-Search-Dreaded-Dro-w-Entertainment-p pt-powerpoint/
TYPE IN THE LETTERS EVF AFTER IT COMES UP
swimming.about.com/.../swimtec...opcatchevf.htmwww.youtube.com/profilewww.swimmingcoach.org/.../EVF...olskiSMALL.pdf
The following videos and information may help you. Good luck!
The following under water videos are fun to watch and will help everyone understand that every swimmer to greater and much lesser degrees have an EVF. EVF is a catch and all swimmers should want to improve it. Don’t let some tell you that EVF is front quadrant swimming because EVF starts in the first quadrant and continues at the beginning of the second quadrant.
Each competitive stroke can be separated into four different segments or quadrants. The front quadrant is where the catch (EVF) “sets-up” the stroke into an effective propulsive position; the second quadrant is where power from a properly set up hand and forearm position occurs; the third quadrant where the release from the power phase and then recovery is initiated; and the fourth quadrant is where the recovery makes the transition to the entry. The all important EVF position or catch is located in the first quadrant and beginning of the second quadrant of each stroke.
Tell me what you think of the following videos. Simply copy and paste the URL’s into your browser and the information should come up. Good Luck Coach T.
Elbows High By Robert Boder / German translation: Felix Gmünder http://www.svl.ch/ElbowsHigh/ This video will say error – simply delete the error page and it should come up.
Faster Swimming With an Early Vertical Forearm Position in All Strokes
www.h2oustonswims.org/article...ped_elbow.htmlswimming.about.com/.../swimtec...opcatchevf.htm
In Search of the Dreaded Dropped Elbow by Coach Emmett Hines
www.h2oustonswims.org/article...ped_elbow.htmlwww.swim.ee/.../index_example.htmlwww.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Grant Hackett
www.youtube.com/watch
Ziegler Holds off Laure Manaudou
www.youtube.com/watch
A picture frame by frame comparison of Thorpe and Hackett
www.svl.ch/.../
EVF Powerpoint website
www.authorstream.com/presenta...-narration-Imp ortant-anEarly-Vertical-Forearm-Look-Results-Pictures-Search-Dreaded-Dro-w-Entertainment-p pt-powerpoint/
TYPE IN THE LETTERS EVF AFTER IT COMES UP
swimming.about.com/.../swimtec...opcatchevf.htmwww.youtube.com/profilewww.swimmingcoach.org/.../EVF...olskiSMALL.pdf
