When To ‘Hold The Glide’
Welcome to feedback Friday, on today’s episode, we are looking at an athlete who sent their videos to me and what we look at in Feedback Friday is how would we normally analyze this person’s stroke and what recommendations or what drills could we give them to help become a better swimmer. So hopefully this […]
What Happens When You Drop Your Shoulder
The first thing we normally look at is his body position and with the body position, we want to see the three touch points at the surface which are your head your hips and your heels. We want those three touch points to be at the surface, if they’re there then there’s a good chance […]
Are you getting FULL triceps extension in freestyle?
What we are looking at in this video is the exit of the stroke, how the hand is exiting at the back. One in three swimmers or almost half of the swimmers I work with can make an adjustment with the back of their stroke. This is a case of someone who is exiting a […]
The Perfect Catch…Now What?
In this video, you can see that this athlete is swimming really quite well. One of the things that stands out here is his catch. What the best swimmers tend to do is they allow their fingertips to point down while their upper arm manages to sustain almost the same position. Most adults won’t have […]
Follow the Train Tracks
In this video, we are looking at the hand entry, the alignment, and the tautness through the body. You can see that when he enters with his right hand, you can see that the thumb is turned in quite an angle and it is quite close to the head. When we are swimming, we want […]
Keep ‘Soft’ Hands?
In this video, I want to pick out two things that’s most likely causing quite a bit of side-to-side movement. With freestyle, we generally want to keep quite stable through the core and through the hips. You can see in this video that the swimmer has a little bit of side-to-side movement. Here are a […]
