I have always had a problem keeping my legs up on my Crawl stroke. I'm 66 a new swimmer ( 3 years ). My masters coach has gotten my arm stroke straighten out, no pun intended, so I do catch the water and keep my elbow up.
But he continues to tell me I drop my hips with many suggestions like drop my head, swim down hill, suck up my butt, push my chest down. But I still have a problem.
In fact I really don't care if I have a good kick, I just don't want my legs to sink and slow me down.
Are their any dry land drills that will help me,
I am devoting Jan & Feb to improving my technique and the hell with any endurance training, so I still have 36 days left to get my legs up.
Thanks,
Bob
Former Member
I swum friday and tried to remember: downhill, head low, press on arm pits amd keep back arched !!
What do you mean, keep back arched when you swim freestyle? Do you mean to somehow bend over your body? How could that be a good thing??
The thing I've started doing is just floating, hands forward, legs straight back. It's harder than it sounds...memorize where your head needs to be to keep your legs floating, then try to duplicate that position while doing your crawl. For me, the head position much deeper feeling than I had realized (although I have an admittedly large noggin:D...no comments!). If I have days where I'm not feeling it, I'll float, swim a 25, float again...it usually only take a couple times to get me back in the swing.
