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the real key to the whole issue (at least for me) is the phrase let chin follow the shoulder to air. I was not doing that and when I did, it just felt right. Tks for comment Sherry |
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I have read your blog many times and to me, it clicked more than the swim and nod drill. It was more simple to remember. It's really funny that something so vital (breathing) is so hard to put into words and once it is put into words, then comes the complexity of interpretation! Your statement,"chin follows shoulder to air, inhale quick is the only timing to think about" says it all Tks for your comments Sherry |
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Once you get a full tank of air, there's no reason to keep your head in the breathing position, gently return head back to goggles down. And knowing the window to get breath is short, this establishes good timing too. The longer your head's in the breathing position, the greater the chance for error (lifting head, long breath, tension, etc). That said, swimming in open water when breathing to left or right sighting laterally on shoreline, other swimmers, buoy, etc, I may leave my head in the breathing position (one goggle above surface) a split second longer to have a better look - or if I'm checking my recovery entry with my peripheral vision. But in either case, I've gotten a full tank of air and beginning a slow exhale *before* recovery arm passes the goggles. Stuart Last edited by CoachStuartMcDougal : 02-13-2015 at 01:02 AM. |
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The reason I ask is that once I noticed that I was lollygagging my head longer than necessary after the breath, I started actively turning my head down to the centreline, or at least that's how it felt -- maybe because I had gotten so used to the delayed timing that it now felt a little rushed, but I thought I had better get on the new schedule and get used to it. The correct procedure is that you break the connection of the head with the shoulder (the same shoulder that you followed to air), after the breath, and actively turn away from it even before it (the shoulder) starts to rotate back down into the water, so that your head beats it to the midline (looking straight down) before the shoulder passes the neutral position (parallel with the water surface), right? So my guess is that it should be gently enough not to cause jerkiness and violence in the stroke sequence, but promptly and briskly. Would this be correct? |
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![]() Returning head to neutral position (goggles down) promptly and smoothly after getting breath is a good way to characterize.
Stuart |
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So far I let it attached to the body. How the body rolls back, head goes goggles down. |
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![]() Here's an example of the late and/or long breath - in this case definitely late causing an interruption in stroke to get that breath. I call this "sucking on the arm pit" and is a fairly common sight at the pool. The result of this late or long breath is over-rotation, elbow although high, is directly over body making it unstable, tension in the neck as if the shoulder and head have collided.
Other errors created as a consequence of poor breath timing, thumb in entry (swimmer's palm is facing cam) creating shoulder impingement and adding a lot of extra movement to get into a clean catch after rotating to right edge. Below the surface the swimmer has started to pull early to keep head buoyant and maintain stability. His head will rotate back to neutral (goggles down) with his body rotation because he has no other choice with this timing. ![]() |
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![]() I always imagine my armpit is my mouth and that is doing the breathing. As the recovering hand clears the water, the armpit opens and breathes.
In this visualisation the armpit works like a bellows pulling air in when open and pushing it out (the stroke phase) when closing. It's very easy to remember and feel when in the water. |
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