Questions About "Out of the Box and Into the Pool"

Here are how those terms are used at the Rose Bowl: "Swim" means swim the full stroke, whatever it may be; "Drill" means specific drills per stroke. For example, with freestyle you might do "catch-up" with your strokes, letting you hands "catch up" ahead of you before you begin to pull, or you may do breathing drills such as 3, 5, 7, 9. Fly drills you might do one arm pulls doing 3 right, 3 left, 3 full. Breaststroke you might do three kicks to each pull. Backstroke you might to double overhead pulls. Drills tinker with the stroke and have you focus on a particular skill, and there are a whole lot to choose from. Talk to your coach (if you have one). "Pull" means no kicking, usually using a pull buoy and sometimes paddles. "Kick" means no pulling, may be w/ or w/o board, w/ or w/o fins. Maybe kick drills (fly kick on right, then on left, on back, etc.). Hope this helps explain. carl

Here are how those terms are used at the Rose Bowl: "Swim" means swim the full stroke, whatever it may be; "Drill" means specific drills per stroke. For example, with freestyle you might do "catch-up" with your strokes, letting you hands "catch up" ahead of you before you begin to pull, or you may do breathing drills such as 3, 5, 7, 9. Fly drills you might do one arm pulls doing 3 right, 3 left, 3 full. Breaststroke you might do three kicks to each pull. Backstroke you might to double overhead pulls. Drills tinker with the stroke and have you focus on a particular skill, and there are a whole lot to choose from. Talk to your coach (if you have one). "Pull" means no kicking, usually using a pull buoy and sometimes paddles. "Kick" means no pulling, may be w/ or w/o board, w/ or w/o fins. Maybe kick drills (fly kick on right, then on left, on back, etc.). Hope this helps explain. carl