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Swim help
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Actually anyone who teaches a the upper levels of swim classes should be able to watch you and give you some pointers. Proper form makes a big difference in swimming.
Legs - not stiff, but flexible without a large bend in the knee (kids you tell to keep their legs straight, but you want some natural bend as you are swimming, toes pointed out, but once again, not stiff)
Arms - your arm comes out of the water with your elbow first. reach forward, thumb down, palm out. arm enters the water thumb first. turn palm to face back towards you, and push straight back along your body. repeat with the other arm. Hands should be slightly cupped to help move the maximum amount of water.
Hopefully this doesn't just confuse things more (it's hard to verbalize without demonstrating).
Actually anyone who teaches a the upper levels of swim classes should be able to watch you and give you some pointers. Proper form makes a big difference in swimming.
Legs - not stiff, but flexible without a large bend in the knee (kids you tell to keep their legs straight, but you want some natural bend as you are swimming, toes pointed out, but once again, not stiff)
Arms - your arm comes out of the water with your elbow first. reach forward, thumb down, palm out. arm enters the water thumb first. turn palm to face back towards you, and push straight back along your body. repeat with the other arm. Hands should be slightly cupped to help move the maximum amount of water.
Hopefully this doesn't just confuse things more (it's hard to verbalize without demonstrating).
kevin
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crawling: if youre crawling along the bottom of the pool, this is why you are moving slowly. if you can somehow use a blowup raft and paddle that should improve your time drastically.
dsweeney has good advice, except when you pull your hands back during your stroke underwater it should make a rather exaggerated "S" motion. mark spitz pioneered that.
dsweeney has good advice, except when you pull your hands back during your stroke underwater it should make a rather exaggerated "S" motion. mark spitz pioneered that.
Kevin,
I was a swimmer for years, and I have had coaches tell me to do the "S" and coaches tell me not too. From expereince I haven't found that it makes a big difference, but that book Total Immersion, says not to. I found that the rest of the book was a big help, so I don't do the "S" now. Just a side note, that book was recomended to me by a number of SF guys that do ALOT of swimming, it works for them and it was a big help to me too.
Ben
I was a swimmer for years, and I have had coaches tell me to do the "S" and coaches tell me not too. From expereince I haven't found that it makes a big difference, but that book Total Immersion, says not to. I found that the rest of the book was a big help, so I don't do the "S" now. Just a side note, that book was recomended to me by a number of SF guys that do ALOT of swimming, it works for them and it was a big help to me too.
Ben
kevin
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never seen an olympic swimmer NOT use an S stroke. but who knows. then again, ive never seen an olympic swimmer use an inflatable raft with oar. i have seen some pretty attractive female olympic swimmers.....who was the one who got all the medals at sydney? i think it was jenny thompson....oh man, she's hot enough to make a priest burn his robes.
Enishi1983
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yeah, my swimming teacher taught at the naval academy. it's always the "s", nothing else. i have the same problem, so i just swim with breaststroke, not front crawl. haven't swam in about 3 months b/c i twisted my knee and messed it up doing breast. BE CAREFUL!
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