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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Here is another of Thorpe www.youtube.com/watch
and another www.youtube.com/watch
BTW, www.youtube.com/watch this it's even better, forget the very last part.
but what is the point ?
The thorpe's hands don't draw a S-shaped motion at all from every point of view, his elbow isn't as high and as out as the Hackett's ones but it's essentially the same stroke, hands enter at shoulders level, front quadrant type, high elbow, rounded off at the hip, look like a single peak velocity type.
Here is another of Thorpe www.youtube.com/watch
and another www.youtube.com/watch
BTW, www.youtube.com/watch this it's even better, forget the very last part.
but what is the point ?
The thorpe's hands don't draw a S-shaped motion at all from every point of view, his elbow isn't as high and as out as the Hackett's ones but it's essentially the same stroke, hands enter at shoulders level, front quadrant type, high elbow, rounded off at the hip, look like a single peak velocity type.
