Having A Smooth Freestyle Entry

Hi Brenton Ford here, welcome to another effortless swimming dot com update where swimming fast is easy. This week we’re looking at a smooth transition from your entry into your extension forward and creating minimal drag so that you’ve got that smooth transition that will get you into the correct catch position nice and early. One of the mistakes that we quite often see here is that swimmers will enter either too early or too late and entering too early means that you go down at too much of an angle which creates a lot of drag on the top of your arm and your shoulder. If you enter too late and you’re fully extended before you enter the water what that does is causes you to drop your elbow and enter with your elbow first and that means it’s very hard to get into the correct catch position after you’ve done that. So a couple of drills that we like to use at effortless swimming to help correct this is the first one is fingertip drag freestyle where you drag your fingertips on the

surface of the water and then you enter at 80 to 90% of the way forward and this drill is really good for finding that correct length that you should be entering in because if you do enter too soon you’ll find that you get a lot of drag on the top of your arm. If you’re entered too late you feel your elbow dropping before you enter the water so that’s the first drill. The second drill is kick on side with pause and enter and what this drill does is it allows you to isolate that movement from your recovery into your entry and extension forward allows you to isolate that movement so that you can feel that smooth transition into your extension and by focusing on justice movement it allows you to make small refinements, small adjustments and feel for that smooth transition where you’ve got low drag and you can set yourself up well for the catch. Of course these are just some of the drills that we use to improve freestyle.

You’ve got a whole lot more in the effortless freestyle program where you actually break it down into different sections of the stroke so that rather than having to think about a hundred different things at once you can isolate each different part of your stroke, you can correct it and then move on to the next part so you’re not having to try and to correct your kick, your catch, your body position, all of the different things that go with freestyle technique. You can change one part at a time and then build on that so you don’t have to think about a lot of things at once. So if you’d like to swim faster freestyle that’s more efficient, uses less energy, you can go to effortlessfreestyle.com and get the effortless freestyle program there. This has been effortlesswimming.com update, I’ll see you next week.