Talking about Early Vertical Forearm training and how it can improve your swim team. First things you want to do with the kids is make sure you do the dry lands where they work on exercises to help them.
We've talked about Early Vertical Forearm isometrics. Just holding your hands up like this for butterfly, for breaststroke, for freestyle. Back here for backstroke, you want to for small shoulders, for small muscles in your shoulders to be able to hold that position. Also, you can use surgical tubing.
Surgical tubing for backstroke would be up in this position back, it's not easy to do. The types of surgical tubing you can use are very, very light. This is kind of medium for our middle schoolers, and young high schoolers. And you can also do Early Vertical Forearm training in front like this, or butterfly and for freestyle, holding this position.
Training response is going to happen if you do this regularly, and that means every single day, for your dry lands, and it's going to help. When you get your kids out on the pool from four years old all the way up, and if they are not familiar with Early Vertical Forearm positions, here is what you have to do.
You're going to get them on the pool back, all around the pool, and you could have 40, 50, 60 kids, two kids. You want to get them on the board like this and you want to -- have their head over, keep their head down and show them. I mean, they have to show you that they can get into this position, and hold that, and then use the other hand.
So you work on right and left-hand. You can also show the breaststroke, and butterfly by extending here and getting into this position, and you hold. What's nice about being on this side of the pool, when they recover, they recover properly without dropping their elbow and come out up.
They need to show you that, they need to show you that they can go through virtual swimming, showing you the right way. Also point, you can position yourself in front of a mirror, in front of coach, putting your hands up like this, showing in slow motion of breaststroke pull as they extend, they are sculling in, dropping their elbows and recovery.
Same with butterfly, pulling out. showing the EVF, Early Vertical Forearm, that's the elbow is up above, near the ears and above it, holding that position. You want to be able to show you that they can extend and get the idea. If they were on a raft or a surfboard, you want to keep their hand outside the mid-line for a great majority of their strokes. So the first quadrant and second quadrant with stroke.
You are going to immediately go here, I want you to ever worry, that they can't an S-shape pattern, don't even teach them. They are going to do it naturally. By rolling from right to left, they are going to do that. What you don't want your swimmers to do, is extend and when they are breathing watch what happens then, it happens all the time and it's a terrific float. The other float of course is the dreaded dropped elbow, where they extend and they move their elbow here, instead of getting into the high position.
In backstroke, I have the kids, get on the side of the pool like this, and hold the position where their hand is 18 inches down deep, and I have them all around the pool, showing you this position where their hand is down 18 inches and they show you the EVF. They have this Early Vertical Forearm position in your backstrokes like this.
You don't want their hands coming out of the water, but you do want to make sure, that the elbow is down and the finger tips are up. Keeping this position, they will show you this position and if they can't show you, outside the water, then you are not going to be able to do it inside the water. Okay, so on the dry land exercise, the things that you can do outside the pool are very, very important.
Now, let's get into the water and show you the Early Vertical Forearm paddles and how they work.
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