Comments on: Hi Bill. Swimming Fast and Efficiently Is An Ongoing Negotiation Between Glide and Power. https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/hi-bill-swimming-fast-and-efficiently-is-an-ongoing-negotiation-between-glide-and-power/ Total Immersion Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Louis Tharp https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/hi-bill-swimming-fast-and-efficiently-is-an-ongoing-negotiation-between-glide-and-power/#comment-66 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:24:32 +0000 http://totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=771#comment-66 Hi Bill:

Yes, although I’m not nearly as structured as Terry, we are shooting for the same endpoints as you’ve noticed.

To answer your last question about how a high shoulder can keep you from over rotating — if you keep your hand-lead shoulder next to the surface, it isn’t possible to rotate very much.

Keep swimming.

Louis Tharp
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]]> By: CoachBillL https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/hi-bill-swimming-fast-and-efficiently-is-an-ongoing-negotiation-between-glide-and-power/#comment-65 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:38:59 +0000 http://totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=771#comment-65 Lou, thanks for that thoughtful and detailed answer. Having just spent a week at Speed Camp with Terry, I’m interested in how different your “stroke thoughts”-“focal points” are from his – although you are both trying to get people to do the same things. One of the things he had us working on all week was holding the largest possible volume of water, and shaping that hold by opening the axilla (aka armpit) – this is, is it not, the same thing you’re doing with “raising the shoulder and elbow”? Although it’s quite a different thought. I have an obvious sort of hitch or discontinuity in my stroke, which he attributed to: 1. Almost always breathing right; 2. Loss of balance caused by a slight lifting of the head between breaths. I’m working on both of these, and will try going back and forth between your stroke thoughts and Terry’s; so far, I don’t actually experience how “raising the arm and shoulder as I go into anchor position” affects rotation – in fact, I’m not completely clear about how to do that, but I’ll keep trying.

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