Your stroke is so big, obviously first sprinting, do you even think about evf? Early vertical form? Are you trying to grab as much water as possible? You know, this thing?

Yeah, so an interesting thing to do is scuttling before I swim. I've noticed that that sort of sets me up that I don't have to think about my cat that my forearm is already engaged. And then, yeah, then I can just swim.

I think it's so important to awaken those things. And so one of the things we do in here, do you do strapless sewing?

I do when I come here. All right, there

you go.

So I think it's so important. And what we're doing here, Andy, is that you'll start it. And you know, we'll just play with it for a little bit. And then I'll speed the water out. And when I see the water up, eventually you just drop those, and then you carry that feeling right into it. Okay, so we're going to start, it starts really slow, obviously. Because sculling should be should be nice, well, it usually is nice and slow.

I've actually been doing,

doing some fast,

quick,

accelerates the fatigue on the forums.

We'll start at 215. And first, we'll just get a feel for water speed.

So you noticed that Andy's arms with the only the forums really are moving, the elbows are in front of the shoulders, I'll probably just give her a little bit more water speed here. So scrolling, you want the majority of the action to be taking place from the forums to the hands. And from a physics standpoint, you can see that the the paddles are down, which is causing her to stay in one spot, if you push too much water out in in you, you will just start to fall back. So you're going to start to pick it up a little bit. Now the goal of this is not to see how fast you can score, it's just when you feel you get to a swimming speed, just go ahead and let the paddles drop off and then get into that that good catch position. Okay. So gradually, just picking up the pace of the water. Elbows come up even higher, the faster she goes on this. Now there's a beautiful scrolling pattern right there. So she just drops the paddles to pick up the speed of the water. Something a little bit more natural for her. And she just carries that feeling of the the connection in the cache into her stroke.

Here comes the other one.

No, you were fine. No. Well, yeah, cuz you were swimming. Yeah, I kept changing the water speed. But I mean, the great thing about this is that you can transition from sculling to swimming and you're forced to go faster and faster. The bad thing is that the paddle might come back around a hitch in the head. So the faster you sculpt, the better it looked to me, you know, the elbows came up, and you really had a much better connection, but then taking it directly into swimming. How did that feel to you?

Yeah, so I really liked that, because then I felt like my catch was already set up. And then I could think about it, you know, whatever other parts of the stroke that I wanted to do, it just sets me up for the good connection with my lats.

So it really is, again, we're practicing something that you want to carry that feeling into, because you're not going to have time to think about it when you're really going at it. Yeah. And that's what practice is for right? actually practicing skills that you would want to use at some point, rather than just seeing how many times you can go back and forth. Yeah. Which is sometimes lost on people,

no way more fun to think about to float around and work on balance.

Right. So the big thing, also is, you know, you're, you're creating such a big lever as you swim, so not breaking the wrist. What do you think about as far as when you initially catch? Do you try to get the wrist down or are you really trying to create a long lever that's pretty straight.

Yeah, I think I'm trying to create a long lever that's straight. Because I think that my wrist is going to bend a bit, just naturally. And while I'm trying to keep that strong catch. So then if I think about being straighter, and it's not too much.

Let's see, let's see what we can see from under you, we can get those out of there. Yeah, you don't need that anymore. Your balance is pretty good.

Yeah, you just swimming, but, you know, maybe we can, we'll see what we see from above and below as far as how the catch is initiated. And then what water speed do you want? Is this, okay, I think we're at 115. Okay.

So using the water, you know, kind of the thickness of the water to help initiate that down sweep or the the the initiation of the catch. Sometimes people break their wrist a little bit too much. And Andy has to make sure that she has a great connection with as much of her arm as possible, through as much of the pole phase as possible. And when we see her at high rate or high speed, you'll see she doesn't have this forward extension that you're looking at right here because she immediately gets into the catch. But, again, like she said, she might break the wrist a little bit, but it's not going to be anything overt. And she's going to have to try to fix it as soon as possible once she gets into the catch. So right there, I think at the slow water speed, you know, it's pretty straight the whole time. There's very little break of the wrist at all. And probably when you get even up to greater speeds, the hand just gonna come in pretty heavy. And and stay, I think fairly straight the whole time. So do you again, this is probably something that you're trying to avoid is too much wrist break.

Yeah. Yeah, I've even taped my wrist or put on longer paddles, so that I don't break the wrist.

One of the things we do is we have people hold the wrist, hold the paddle like that. So by holding it like that, it would dig into your wrist if you were trying to break it too much. So is that this thing? You are you got special paddles that are much longer than that.

Yeah, there's a nice oh, the bolsters probably

just strap them with velcro to your arm. Yeah, the bolster power.

Yeah.

I know. We've only joked or talked about taping my wrists. Okay, we're actually so maybe once I did it

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