I was wondering about people's opinions of this website. In many ways I find it helpful, but there are a couple things they say that is a little different from what I've heard from other sources. Couple examples;
1. The Mr. Smooth demonstrator bends his wrist to initiate the catch, and ultimately the elbow drops along the arc. Are they perhaps just being realists for most of us? I had sent a video of myself to Glen Mills (from GoSwim), and he suggested that I not "scoop" with my hands to initiate the catch.
2. This is really interesting. They say that on the catch, it is a myth that you should feel a huge amount of resistance with each pull. Here is the link; www.swimsmooth.com/catch.html
I like a lot of what they say, including being careful not to overreach. It kind of woke me up to the fact that I often try to hard to get distance per stroke.
I wonder what you guys think about the site, as well as the Mr. Smooth demonstrator's stroke.
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2. This is really interesting. They say that on the catch, it is a myth that you should feel a huge amount of resistance with each pull. Here is the link; www.swimsmooth.com/catch.html The catch should indeed be unloaded.
Contrary to a few opinion expressed on this site lately, the catch isn't meant to be propulsive. At best, you may try to maintain some of the propulsion generated by the opposite arm whilst catching. There are at least two very good reasons for this: 1) Shoulder Safety - Just like in the gym, it is not recommended to apply huge loads of pressure on shoulder articulation while the arm is still over the shoulder. 2) Fluidity - Due to its nature, water being a fluid, it's better to give some acceleration to your hand, from start to finish of the effective pulling range. Almost 0 velocity upon hand entry, little velocity on the catch then the acceleration continues all the way to the end.
It's a myth for most, but certainly not for all. Maglischo has been very consistent over the last 3 decades in testing this, as well as explaining the how, the why, the when ....
I wonder what you guys think about the site, as well as the Mr. Smooth demonstrator's stroke. What swimtypes is trying to do, is to account for the fact that differences in morphology should call for differences in swim technique. They were, if I am not mistaking, the first to formalize this fact into nice packages and stuff.
2. This is really interesting. They say that on the catch, it is a myth that you should feel a huge amount of resistance with each pull. Here is the link; www.swimsmooth.com/catch.html The catch should indeed be unloaded.
Contrary to a few opinion expressed on this site lately, the catch isn't meant to be propulsive. At best, you may try to maintain some of the propulsion generated by the opposite arm whilst catching. There are at least two very good reasons for this: 1) Shoulder Safety - Just like in the gym, it is not recommended to apply huge loads of pressure on shoulder articulation while the arm is still over the shoulder. 2) Fluidity - Due to its nature, water being a fluid, it's better to give some acceleration to your hand, from start to finish of the effective pulling range. Almost 0 velocity upon hand entry, little velocity on the catch then the acceleration continues all the way to the end.
It's a myth for most, but certainly not for all. Maglischo has been very consistent over the last 3 decades in testing this, as well as explaining the how, the why, the when ....
I wonder what you guys think about the site, as well as the Mr. Smooth demonstrator's stroke. What swimtypes is trying to do, is to account for the fact that differences in morphology should call for differences in swim technique. They were, if I am not mistaking, the first to formalize this fact into nice packages and stuff.
