So this is almost position 11. So this is taking the weight of your arm, and having arms, you know, start to start to move into a more natural sort of, you know, where the cross body connection and all that stuff. So they get close, it's a little bit of a catch up, but it's but it's not, you know, the arms are still in the line of position 11. But they're, the timing becomes a little bit more natural. So I had to, I had to change the water speed on that, because you were gonna have to kick too hard. But this, this should be back down to like 130, because it's slow.

We're gonna move into almost physician 11, which is more along the lines of a catch up stroke, but and he's going to spend more time on the side, the arms are going to move into the position, 11 line, but they're just not going to be there at the same time. So this is what she was talking about before, in that you want to spend the majority of your time on your side and get through that center position pretty quickly.
 
That's basically really slow freestyle. I like I like how you do it from a standpoint of a very slow recovery. And there's almost a hesitation in there to throw some extra balance demands on your body. But so would you think about that?

I mean, I like that, because it's really hard to maintain my normal technique, when I'm going that slow. So it requires more stability. But it feels good.

I think one of the things for me in working with so many great swimmers like yourself is your ability to swim, your stroke your fast stroke very slowly. So it's almost like you're swimming, you're rehearsing the the fast stroke in slow motion. Whereas a lot of times people have a totally different stroke when they're drilling, then but they do when they're sprinting or going fast. So I've seen this so many times, the great swimmers have this mastery and ownership. So is this something that when you do something that slow, you're trying to imagine how you want to take this forward into a very fast stroke.

Yeah, I think it's just sort of thinking about the same things that I think about on my fast stroke. And really, being able to execute those well is more difficult. So I'm constantly thinking about it. And I think it's kind of a funny thing to try to master your slow stroke even more than my fast one because my fast one sort of comes naturally at this point.

So it's almost like why practice something you wouldn't use?

Yeah, well, yes, but it's just another type of drill.

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Andi - Almost Position-11