I posted a couple weeks ago about keeping my legs horizontal and I am getting better by swimming down hill, pressure on chest and arm pits and reaching out in front of me.
I have been taught or learned to finish my stroke all the way by my thigh for a full stroke. I realized my palm at the end was really pushing the water up and thus pushing my legs down.
I recently borrowed from my coach at DVD by Richard Quick ( Stanford U ) where he showed to finish by putting the arm in the saddle ( his words ) and finish his stroke by putting the arm across your naval or stomach.
He also indicates the last 30 % of the stroke after you hand passes chest ( stermum) is not not very important.
Comments any one ? Where should my hand stop and start recovery ?
Thanks Bob
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The vortex directly behind the hand is caused when water moves around it because it’s being pulled too fast or in a straight line too long. There are different ways you can maintain drag cause by the surface area of the hand. You can move in from shallow to deep and then shallow again (like Alain Bernard) or from outside of the shoulder and slightly to the midline with a very EVF (like Rebecca Adlington), or a mixture of the two like most swimmers. The important think you must work on is altering your pulling pattern to accentuate your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. By trying different pulling patterns (timing your pulls), you’ll find out what pulling pattern is best for you. There are many variances that you’ll need to manipulate (depth, speed, hand position, forearm position, pulling pattern, finger position, wrist bend, extension at the beginning and end of the stroke and how you set up your hand and forearm at the beginning of the stroke). Try one thing and a time. I’d start with keeping the wrist from bending and opening the fingers a bit (increases the area of the hand). Then try some different things. Keep a log of what works and what doesn’t and go from there. Good luck and have fun! Coach T.
Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much.
The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.
The vortex directly behind the hand is caused when water moves around it because it’s being pulled too fast or in a straight line too long. There are different ways you can maintain drag cause by the surface area of the hand. You can move in from shallow to deep and then shallow again (like Alain Bernard) or from outside of the shoulder and slightly to the midline with a very EVF (like Rebecca Adlington), or a mixture of the two like most swimmers. The important think you must work on is altering your pulling pattern to accentuate your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. By trying different pulling patterns (timing your pulls), you’ll find out what pulling pattern is best for you. There are many variances that you’ll need to manipulate (depth, speed, hand position, forearm position, pulling pattern, finger position, wrist bend, extension at the beginning and end of the stroke and how you set up your hand and forearm at the beginning of the stroke). Try one thing and a time. I’d start with keeping the wrist from bending and opening the fingers a bit (increases the area of the hand). Then try some different things. Keep a log of what works and what doesn’t and go from there. Good luck and have fun! Coach T.
Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much.
The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.
