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Tell us what's happening in this pic, and if it's good... or not so good.
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The guy is starting the turn. It seems to me that he is taking the momentum from the swimming into the turn. His back is quite flat right on the surface of the water. He should have a quick turn. |
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Going into the turn, head down letting water flow down his back, arms by sides ready to come out in a good streamline and no use of hands to scull round. Looks good to me. Practicing across the pool rather than down the length? |
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:( They have NEVER turned this pool long-course. It's simply for show. It's a waste, so we're always swimming across the pool (short-course yards). I'd LOVE it if they switched it to long-course. |
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Glenn, It's tough to tell with the slope of the pool, the camera not being squared on the swimmer..... His hips seem a bit lower than his head as if he was in a dolphin motion prior to the turn..... That excess vertical motion would be "not so good." |
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The slight angle is for "dramatic effect". You know... that "artsy" side of me. OR... I just stuck the camera under water before his turn, and it was tilted a bit. You decide. Nice call on the big bob coming in Rich... we've been working on that, and this is much smoother than normal. Might know I learned the faster, non-bobbing, flip-turn from Dave Durden, just after his stint at Auburn. Darn you Auburn guys... but thanks for the knowledge. :) |
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No worries on the angle, nor your artistic limitations... :-) That 'bobbing' technique while going into the turn was taught to us as age-groupers and, unfortunately (or fortunately) we now understand that the laws of physics don't support it. The good news is that, you're helping spread the word by asking the question with a pic like that! The bad news is, you darn Bama guys, are always looking to spread the word on good techniques to everyone else.... :-) I bet Dave Durden will have his Cal men ready with good techniques this week. |
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He doesn't have a cap on his head!!!!!!! |
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When you say bobbing, do you mean preforming a dolphin kick at the beginning of the turn.
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Here's a very old drill... I just uploaded an old clip of video for it as well. |
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I have been practicing alot on submerging going into my turns. It is a tough concept to get down. I haven't even begun to teach my kids because I'm not even sure I know how. I learned about it from Auburn though.... Glenn do you know anything about it? I'm sure you do. That would be a good drill to post |
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The drill that glenn posted about submerging was great! On monday I added it to one of our drill progressions and it worked out very well.
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Thanks. There are so many of the OLD drills that I have to turn back on. I keep looking at my workload, and then looking at all the drills that are missing vids, or haven't been cleaned up since we switched to the new site. Man... there's a lot of stuff on this site... some of it's even GOOD. :) |
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1. palms should face bottom of pool to get a hold on the water to initiate the somersault; 2. he should look at wall so he can judge distance from wall (that may be controversial but I feel the swimmer should look at the bottom of the pool while swimming but at the end of the bottom line, he should look at the wall to be able to judge the correct time to initiate his somersault; the slight additional resistance for a second or so is outweighed by the reduction in the odds of doing a poor turn) |
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Hi Bob. Quickly commenting on your points:
Just my opinions. Thanks for posting. |
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