Correcting My Freestyle: Going from an S-Pull to an I-Pull

This is a nice clip here, maybeyou could watch this and tell me is it an "S" stroke or an "I" stroke??? YouTube - èåŽŸæºå*æ•æ¸¸æ³³-自由式 You may enjoy this butterfly footage also YouTube - èåŽŸæºå*æ•æ¸¸æ³³-蝶式 I couldn't get the fly video. Loved the first one. If that isn't an "S" stroke, I am really shocked. Love the animation sections too. Do you have the link to this? I tried copying the above, but it didn't work.

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?

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The "S" stroke.

Extend, rotate and let the hand drop to the catch. If you force the hand to the catch when swimming distance your upper body rides higher I do not like that. Sprinting is another thing to me I do not let the hand just drop it is dropped with effort into the catch position. In a sprint most of my extension is above the water. I never liked Terry's explanation of piercing the water on the entry and piercing forward during extention.

Last night at practice, I tried the I pull. It felt OK on 50 -100. On lnger distances, I felt rushed.

Extend, rotate and let the hand drop to the catch. If you force the hand to the catch when swimming distance your upper body rides higher I do not like that. Sprinting is another thing to me I do not let the hand just drop it is dropped with effort into the catch position. In a sprint most of my extension is above the water. I never liked Terry's explanation of piercing the water on the entry and piercing forward during extention. So when you say with effort, do you mean that within that 90 degree shift you are feeling resistance and pulling yourself?