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In the spirit of offseason and/or preseason, and in light of the many who are focusing a lot on stroke work and technique, what is your favorite drill, how do you do it, and why do you like it so much? |
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I have two, one is more of a strength builder and one works your body line. My favorite drill is dolphin kick on your side, top arm down, bottom arm up. Looking straight forward to maintain your body line. I think I saw it on a Phelps video. You work on the fluidity of your body dolphin and you get feed back by watching the lane line for speed and seemless motion. My other favorite is a drill or set I call "jump and go fifties". It works if you are in a shallow high school-esue pool. Hands behind your head, back to the wall. You will have to stay close to do this, but be careful, the wall is made of concrete and always wins. You do five jumps maintaining your line, explosive jumps making sure you are getting low in the water. On the fifth one instead of landing on the bottom of the pool swing your body down to plant your feet on the wall and explode off into a sprint dolphin kick (streamline of course) as far as you can. Young ones come up early and have to sprint free or fly to the wall and swim an easy 25 back. Older kids make it all the way and depending upon the mood easy or sprint back. I have not had one complaint about this set in the two years I have used it. |
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Anything that alternates swimming and underwater kicking for breaststroke. Here's a couple I enjoy: http://www.goswim.tv/entries/4493/breastst...
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