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![]() Oops. I meant to say "increase drag" not "reduce drag".
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Also, note Coach David Shen's response--holding skate position through the entire recovery is not all about drag reduction. It's also about preserving the kinetic energy of the still unrotated body so that when rotation does happen, all of that preserved energy goes into driving the spearing arm forward, which aids rotation while reducing muscular effort. Last edited by Tom Pamperin : 05-04-2018 at 06:42 PM. |
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Then, integrate this with your full stroke. As you switch from side to side, can you easily spear forward into the next Skate and do it such that your balance is perfect? Or, can you bring your recovering arm forward without its mass unbalancing you as it comes forward and slightly out to your side? Aptly named Skate, you can also think of when you go ice skate. You push off with one foot onto the other foot's skate blade. When you do that, do you wobble? Do you collapse onto one side? When you begin ice skating, this may happen. When you get better, you get better at launching onto that blade edge without wobbling or collapsing. It is the same concept with Skate, and when you are in Skate while you swim full stroke.
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There are many things you can examine to minimize deceleration: 1. Being in good Skate position means you are quiet, perfectly balanced, and not introducing extraneous motion which all minimize drag. 2. check your body parts. Are your limbs splaying outward during this time? Keep them all quiet, and within the shadow of your body moving through the water. 3. Is your head swinging from side to side as you switch? excess head movement will raise drag. 4. Is your body perfectly horizontal through all parts of the stroke? I often see swimmers change their hip depth at different times during the stroke. For example, sometimes they are horizontal and then when they reach the switch i see their hips drop. What happened? What changed? Why the hip drop here but not elsewhere? No matter what the cause, drag just increased dramatically when it was actually OK just before and stopped them dead in the water . So in essence what you say is true. If you have an awesome Skate - all body parts in the right place, perfectly horizontal body, head down - that will help minimize drag a lot. But also don't forget that swimming is not a static thing like Skate the whole way; you're moving a lot of body parts around while some of your body is still in Skate so that movement can interrupt what was formerly a perfect Skate. Skate is one of our most basic drills. It is much easier to practice elements broken down into pieces. Then we reassemble them into a whole, bit by bit, and challenging your CNS when it's ready. So Skate first, then we add a bit of recovery to spear for 1 stroke only. Then 2, then 3, and so on.
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![]() So stay up all te way to entry or roll towards the arm going down?
Hmmm There seems to be a natural slight roll towards the arm going down once it passes shoulder height? if i stay up all the way to entry it feels like im doing some sort of drill ie poise before entry / sailboat drill? |
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