3 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BODY POSITION - get the most out of your pull and rotation
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- čas přidán 4. 10. 2021
- In this video, we worked with an athlete who swam a little in his youth, but is now getting more competitive in his later years. How can we make him a better open water swimmer? Two words: BODY POSITION. If we can flatten and lengthen our position in the water without compromise, we'll be able to drastically improve efficiency and focus on getting a better feel for the water; the #1 way to improve open comfort and speed in open water.
The three things we touch on:
1. head position
2. hip rotation
3. glide for efficiency
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I really enjoyed this video, but at about minute 5:25 you talk about about turning the hips, I think it's also important to stress that you need to stretch the shoulder forward to really get that arm out in front. At least that advice really helped me. You could've also mentioned it when you discuss the glide.
very practical and very useful.. many thanks...
Thanks for your sharing
Very well explained than k u
Why apologize for a "foreign" video. Swimming is swimming anywhere. Clearly.
Yessss!!!
Love your videos! Thanks for posting.
I think when you (the trainer) pause the extended arm our front you position your hand in a way that creates drag.
yes, small improvement possible there
How do you use your core to bring your legs up?
Perfect demonstration 5.40
Do you just take get cottage from people and help them from that because if so i would gladly take some help because I am much more athletic then a lot of my team but I’m one of the slowest
I have never understood the concept of 'hip driven'. As near as I can tell, it is physically and mechanically impossible for the hips to drive anything. Perhaps it is a carry over from land based sports. At best, the hips serve as an universal joint to transfer energy from one end of the body to the other. Any land based sport that used rotational energy, such as throwing or a martial arts punch, the rotation starts at the feet, goes through the hips, and finishes with a 'crack the whip' action out the arms/hands/fingers. You can not accomplish this without the feet being firmly planted on the ground which allows you to generate force. With throwing, many times you step into the action, but the concept is the same. When in the water, you do not have any base to anchor your lower body on to generate this rotational force. No mass, no leverage of any kind with the feet. The power in the kick comes from anchoring on the pulling arm. The young woman here shows this best. She initiates the pull with her leg locked and loaded for the kick. The shoulders clearly rotate first, then the hips follow. The shoulders rotate independently from each other. The pulling arm initiates the rotation, the hips follow, then the recover arm finishes the rotation. Try the 6/6 drill. 6 kicks on one side, quick snap roll to the other side and 6 more kicks. The low side shoulder, which would be the pulling arm clearly rotates before the hips do. This also explains why the #1 kick is the power kick, and the other 2 kicks are much weaker because the #1 kick links to the body rotation.
Very good explanation! Makes absolute sense!👍🏼
Interesting points. For me the concept of hip-driven is related to the turning your hips to create a 'winding' / coiling effect - which then engages more of the muscles in your back and torso in the actual pulling of the hand back through the water.
Well, true, you have to have the rotational energy for the most powerful and efficient swimming of freestyle, back stroke, and the over arm side stroke. As I said, in land based sports, the rotation starts at your feet, travels through your hips, and then out your arm. In swimming, since there is nothing for your feet to anchor, and your strength of your muscle movements are to pull rather than throw, that rotation starts at your pulling arm. Try the 6/6 drill. 6 kicks on one side, then snap roll to the other side and 6 more kicks. Your low side shoulder, which is your pulling arm, rotates before your hips. Even if you are slow swimming freestyle and using the 2 beat kick, the pulling arm engages before your hips rotate and that first power kick starts. The hips rotate as one unit. The shoulders rotate independently with the pulling arm starting the rotation, then the hips rotate, then the recovery arm finishes the rotation. Try it and see if you can do it with the hips rotating before your shoulders rotate.
@@robohippy Yeah, it's a hard one to get your head around. Dunno if this is allowed in CZcams - but I think there's a good explanation of how to set up the Catch by leading with your hips here.
czcams.com/video/kSrosNShISQ/video.html
I started building it into my own stroke about a month ago. I dont know if it actually qualifies as 'hip-driven' -but the feeling you get doing it is that more power seems to be coming from your torso than your arms.
I have watched coach Mandy, and shall we say that she aims more at the beginning swimmers. Some of what she says is just plain wrong. As I have told her, no matter who you watch, and slow motion shows it more clearly, the #1 kick anchors on the pulling arm, then the hips rotate, and then the recover arm completes the shoulder rotation. Shoulders are 'floating joints' and rotate independently from each other. Hips are a fused bone and rotate as one unit. Mandy does swim this way, but she only sees the recovery arm. Several coaches when coaching 2 beat freestyle will tell you to anchor the front side kick on the pulling arm. Look up Swim Skills NT and his video about Arrow freestyle. If you are swimming and it feels right, you are already doing this.
Lol life long swimmers have zero clue what it feels like to learn as an adult.
why apologize for a “foreign” video? 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️swimming is swimming