Geochuck, your comment about just letting your hand drop into position got me thinking about something that has always confused me. In the interval between the horizontal, outstretched arm and the vertical forearm, is there any anchoring? In other words, are you feeling resistance against your hand and arm as your hand "drops" or is it a pretty resistance free motion? The reason I ask is that people often talk about extending the arm fully prior to the catch in order to have a farther catch point, but if the catch really begins when the hand and forearm have dropped below the elbow, what difference does the extension make except perhaps to make you longer and more streamlined. Maybe the idea is really to get the elbow as far forward as possible?
Geochuck, your comment about just letting your hand drop into position got me thinking about something that has always confused me. In the interval between the horizontal, outstretched arm and the vertical forearm, is there any anchoring? In other words, are you feeling resistance against your hand and arm as your hand "drops" or is it a pretty resistance free motion? The reason I ask is that people often talk about extending the arm fully prior to the catch in order to have a farther catch point, but if the catch really begins when the hand and forearm have dropped below the elbow, what difference does the extension make except perhaps to make you longer and more streamlined. Maybe the idea is really to get the elbow as far forward as possible?
