Hey swimmers! Are you having trouble with your recovery? Finding it difficult to move your arm properly from the stroke back’s finish forward to the entry point? Many swimmers have difficulty performing the proper arm motion for freestyle recovery. Try the drill in this video and see if it can help you:
This week I had a client whose 2BK I was trying to tune. Overall, he was swimming pretty well. But something about his propulsion just wasn’t right and he was dropping hips on the breath. We came down to trying to fine tune his 2BK and found that – through me looking underwater at him[…]
I just recently had a client who was asking about the catch and how to execute the stroke back from there. Here is a video going through some elements of the catch that might be helpful for you:
I thought I’d give a little bit more discussion on recovery’s role in propulsion. It’s likely a new concept for many people; I discovered it first when I watched Bill Boomer’s Freestyle Reimagined DVD (I highly recommend watching that if you’re a swim nerd like me!). We focus so much on the catch and pull[…]
Following on my discussion on a new recovery practice we are working with at workshops and the great results I got from it in my own swimming, here is a video on how to practice this on dryland: Give this a try especially if you are having trouble with existing recovery drills that we’ve gone[…]
Check out my new recovery video on Youtube: I’ve been watching it in action at Mandy McDougal and Stuart McDougal‘s Total Immersion weekend workshops, and it works incredibly well. Note that I do not think that this means our old recovery drills and concepts won’t work any more. It seems that this teaching technique delivers[…]
A quick video on the “Finish” where the hand in the water stroking back reaches the end and exits the water:
If you’re finding that 2BK coordination is difficult, give this a try…. The kicking practice i typically use with first timers of 2BK is simply, use both hands and hold onto the wall of the pool. Put your head in the water, and push out from the wall while still holding onto it and extend[…]
I thought I’d repost this thread from the Total Immersion forums. It touches on some key points I’ve learned about IAP generation, and the context is for swimming. The full thread is entitled Reasons for the arched back and how to fix it?. User sachintha writes: In a recent underwater video I was surprised to[…]
Ankle mobility is important for swimming well and with the least drag. Swimming with your feet not pointed behind you means you have two feet that are creating drag as you swim. Sometimes it’s a motor control problem. You tell the swimmer to keep the toes pointed behind them and they imprint it, and just[…]