Speaker: The reason why I am only having them breathe once or twice or even three times during these 25's is I don't want them to think about, oh my gosh, I have to breathe and since they don't have to think about their breathing, they can actually concentrate on what I want them to do during this drill and that is not to cross the mid-lone of the body.
By dropping the chin down during this drill, they can see themselves, oh my gosh, is my hand crossing the mid-line and if it is, then they open it up because again I really don't want them to cross at all. Now, we will get into later -- or yes, when you breathe, your torso and your mid-line goes this direction, so they may still be coming straight down where they would be crossing the mid-line if they weren’t breathing but their mid-line is this way. So they are going to be thinking about that next.
Eric, what did you see? Really, because I was seeing and we will see when we film you underwater but what I seen earlier is that you were coming across. Alright, now we are going to do the same thing but we are going to slow the stroke down. So I want you to be gliding a little bit more and pulling and still I want you not to breathe a lot, drop that chin and really look at what your hand is doing. In my opinion, drills should almost never be fast, drills should be slow. That's why I always like for people who give themselves plenty of time from the person in front of them, so they don't pressure the person in front of them but drill should always be slow so you have a chance to really think about what you are doing.
Again, we are trying to swim only 300 meters of perfect stroke instead of 3000 meters of inefficient stroke. Alright, so let's slow the stroke down, drop the chin again and say am I crossing my mid-line or not. Let's just do 125 like this. Alright, excellent, that was much better, seen you guys do that. So what’s one thing -- first thing we have to remember, mid-line right?, because we don't want to cross it here and we don't want to cross it here, okay.
The next thing, I want you to think about in swimming and it's not totally necessary but it really helps streamline a lot of people, is high elbows on your recovery. So when you are coming around, what I want you to do is enter the water, alright. Does anyone remember, does anyone ever taught this sculling motion, the S-shape up here, well forget about it because in my opinion that S-shape is just waste of time and we are always taught this where we enter and then our hand goes out, we make this nice S-shape and come down. But there is no reason for us to be going out because one we are not crossing over here anymore and doing this S-shape. I just want you to enter, pull and then you are going to form like 90 to a 110 degree angle here and this is the main part of your pulling, right here, when we rotate it's the main part of the point because you are using all your lats, so you are pulling this way.
So, you are coming around and then you are raising your elbow out of the water for recovery. Now the best way I like to think about this is, let's all envision this, I am going to a holiday party. It's between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, whatever we are going to a holiday party. Its cold out, we are not in Colorado, we are not in Florida or anything like this, we are in Montana where it's just freezing. So we take our long nice dress-coat with us, cloth that goes down to here. Does anyone have one of those?
Okay, you walk into the house, you say hey, how you doing Mark? It's great to see you, thanks for having blah, blah, blah and you start to take off your coat. How do you take it off? Well, you take the coat off the shoulder and then you pull the arm out. So just envision that, that's how you take off the coat; pull your arm out, nice and relax on a recovery, this area right here, so you just be so relaxed and you can just take your hand and just go like this. We don't need any tension.
A lot of people, they swing their arm around here and so this is all locked up and when you swing out your arm round here, b
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