Thanks for the video. Nigel Kube (I think it's him giving the narration) of Swim Therapy has done more than an excellent job of showing what an EVF is. I think it's important to note that there are many many variences of the demonstrated forearm position. An EVF can accomodate the physical limitations from swimmer to swimmer. In fact, flexibility, strength, physical fram differences, require accomodations to the position shown in the video, such as the upper arm lower / hand deeper, closer or farther away from the midline. Thanks again for the excellent video.
An interesting video of an EVF drill:
YouTube- ‪SwimTherapy - Frontcrawl Catch‬
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The man at the end has a catch-up stroke where the hands are both out in front of him. The two swimmers at the beginning of the video have one hand finishing while the other is starting the stroke (not like the last swimmer).
Lindsay, thanks for bringing it on the table.
I would like to kindly oppose this clip to that one
YouTube- ‪How to swim with a High Elbow Catch/EVF - Total Immersion Israel‬
They propose two different approaches.
Difference between the two?
The former stresses on working the drill on side body position, the second clip stresses on waiting a tiny bit for flatter body position, whilst pulling slightly off on the side.
For several reasons, I think your clip is still an important one. It can teach you how to achieve a lot of vertical position without delaying the catch (catching while still being on downward body rotation instead of waiting). It's important, it may in fact be the way I'll choose to continue swimming this year if the technique shown on clip#2 doesn't bring me what I want.
Lindsay, thanks for bringing it on the table.
I would like to kindly oppose this clip to that one
YouTube- ‪How to swim with a High Elbow Catch/EVF - Total Immersion Israel‬
They propose two different approaches.
Difference between the two?
The former stresses on working the drill on side body position, the second clip stresses on waiting a tiny bit for flatter body position, whilst pulling slightly off on the side.
For several reasons, I think your clip is still an important one. It can teach you how to achieve a lot of vertical position without delaying the catch (catching while still being on downward body rotation instead of waiting). It's important, it may in fact be the way I'll choose to continue swimming this year if the technique shown on clip#2 doesn't bring me what I want.
In the Swimtherapy video the swimmer flattens slightly as he catches. As far as I can see it is very difficult to catch with a high elbow without doing this, so there may not be too much of a gap between this video and the TI one in practice.
