GoSwim Gold
Print this entrySwimming Pic of the Week - February 3, 2008
This week's pic is of an age-group butterfly swimmer. Tell us what you think is happening and any corrections you'd tell her to make.
Responses
|
I think she is only focusing on her first stroke and kicking accordingly. I would recommend her to start that first stroke with the hands at shoulder width and to look down a little bit more. |
|
|
She did ok - yeah I agree with Tomas - she need put her hands at shoulder width and little bit more look down |
|
|
You can tell it is a breakout since there is no splash right now. Could be fly or breast realistically. She doesn't quite have her arms as high as she could. Since she is still sweeping out a little or even at the end of an out sweep it would be beneficial to have her pinkies up higher so there is more range of motion downward to lift her body up whether it be breast or fly. High body on the water = less drag :). With her head up she should have NO problem getting those arms up higher, but other thant hat I like this pick. It shows a pretty nice streamlined body from preservative. |
|
|
Fly, and great arm pull after the not so great starting position of the arms. |
|
|
She looks like a breast stroker. Arms a little wide and head up a bit much. Good start though. |
|
|
is she looking the entire time to the front ?! |
|
|
The top spine stays rigid, there's no dolphin motion. |
|
|
Come on now... and this is just a gentle reminder. Anybody can look at someone and say what's wrong... the point of this was to determine what was wrong, and then input what advice you'd give her to correct it. :) There could be a couple things happening. If she's coming off a start or turn, and has pushed off, or gone too deep, she may be using her head to bring her to the surface... so the trouble MAY have happened long before the picture was selected. So... first solution to that, make the depth correction with the dolphin kick prior to having to lift the head. Gimme some more! Uh... please. :) |
|
|
ok i try, my english is not the best (:
|
|
|
It seems that she needs take a breath. I advise to shortening the underwater phase, and she'll get a breathless breakout. |
|
|
I would have her close her eyes and feel the surface before she breaks out. Hopefully she doesn't dolphin to the other end before she reaches the surface tho lol. I would also have her lay on stomach and find where and how she can get her pinkies highest while her arms are still relatively streamlined in front. Ideally have her try getting more rom out of her pull with a drill to make it easier, probably a best balance sort of drill with the pinkies over the head before the pull is started. Or put some 1lb weights in her hands and have her try some breakouts at high speed and low speed. If you can breakout with some weights in your hands and swim a couple strokes of fly your probably not too deep, or idk... |
|
|
Her posterior is a little low in the water....want to get that up some. |
|
|
Main issue is that her insweep occurs too far back (at waist level) rather than under her chin. In other words, she is pulling back too far during the catch (outsweep/insweep) part of the stroke. Minor issue is head position: she would benefit from looking down more than forward during the catch and pull. |
|
|
I would agree that her head seems rather looking forward which will mean an automatic brake against the water when she takes her first stroke and she will come 'up' in her break out rather than forward. If she keeps her head down she will maintain more of the forward momentum and probably not breathe on the first stroke. If she does as Pebbles says (as I try to get my swimmers to do) coming in under the chin rather than the torso helps create lift to get an early breath and let the arms flow over the top of the water more easily. |
Tomás
James Stuart
fiZZLe
sprinter
Cesar
Halberhai
Please The Pool
- Articles
- Motivational Articles
- Pic of the Week
- Question of the Week
- Set of the Week
- Go Swim With Us
- Bios
- Links
More
Underwater Tag Cloud
1650 Aaron Peirsol active drag active recoveryswimming aerobic endurance age-group Amanda Beard anchoring android Android app ascending sendoffs backstroke balance beach reading bilateral breathing birthday swim blueseventy Body Shape bodyline brain training breakout breaststroke breath control breathing Brendan Hansen broken swims butterfly catch challenge set coaches coaching combat side stroke competition crossover turn Cullen Jones cycle rate Dave Denniston descend set distance per cycle distance training dive dolphin dolphin kick DragSox Drills dryland DVD efficiency eggbeater kick Endless Pools Eric Shanteau Eric Vendt etiquette EVF fatigue feel Finis finish fins fist drill flip turn flutter kick Fran Crippen freestyle gallop stroke goals hand entry hand exit head position heart rate hybrid IM inner strength iPhone app Jason Lezak Jeff Rouse Kaitlin Sandeno Kara Lynn Joyce Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen Kevin Clements kick kids learn-to-swim long axis strokes loping Margaret Hoelzer masters medball Michael Phelps middle distance Misty Hyman mobile video monofin neural Olympics one-hour swim open water Over training pace pace clock paddles paralympics parents passive drag propulsion pull pulling pulse rates pushoffs pyramid questiontaper race specific training racing recovery relay starts resisted swimming rhythm Robert Margalis Roland Schoeman Roque Santos rotation Sara McLarty science Scott Tucker sculling SEALs shoulders sighting snorkel speed work sprint Staciana Stitts Starts stations Steve Haufler straight arm recovery streamline stretch cord stretching stroke count stroke rate support swim across america swim camps swim fun swim technique swim training swim video swimming Swimming Golf swimming music Swimsense swimsuit taper teaching Tempo Trainer tether timing training Triathlon turn Turns underwater dolpin underwater pull Vasa water poloswimming water temp weights work to rest ratioWho is GoSwim?
We are a group of swimmers who swim really fast, and like to help others learn how to reach their competitive potential in the area of professional swimming.