Turns - Stable Pushoffs
When many younger and older swimmers come off a flip turn, they're sometimes disoriented and push off incorrectly. In order to learn a great line, and stable exit from a flip, here's a good sequence to help.
When many younger and older swimmers come off a flip turn, they're sometimes disoriented and push off incorrectly. In order to learn a great line, and stable exit from a flip, here's a good sequence to help.
How do you balance efficiency and stroke rate, and which is more important to key on in training to improve performance?
The standard approach for learning (or teaching) freestyle is to use a high-elbow recovery. We've already covered the most typical drill for learning a high-elbow recovery, fingertip drag, but sometimes that's still not enough. Just as with most teaching, to really start the process, you may have to dig a little deeper... literally.
While we've focused on single-arm freestyle before, we gave only one side of the story. Since freestyle is the mainstay of swim training, here are three single-arm variations to help keep things interesting.
Consistent, quick kicking, combined with a stable body roll, helps you move everything forward when you're swimming freestyle. This drill gives you enough time to work on both.
With election day upon us, balancing budgets may be at the top of people's minds, but what about balancing pull buoys? Here's a talented swimmer who can teach our elected officials a thing or two about balancing.
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