I've got one major problem in swimming: for all the upper body strength I have, I don't have any "catch" or "feel" for the water. My arms and hands slide under me in a mostly useless way. I know it can be fixed, and for the longest time I thought I'd just Figure It Out some day and the little light bulb of Eureka! would burn brightly.
Years later, no dice.
Any improvement I'm seeing is a result of me fixing other inefficiencies or just getting more efficient with my inefficiencies. There's so much room for me to improve and every little bit counts.
So we set a lesson up for Friday morning. Seemed a good way to start the month.
A quick above water filming, and the problems were laid out. My elbows drop. My hands don't catch water. My front quadrant swimming is OK, my breathing could be earlier, and most everything else OK. Ok in the sense that we aren't going to worry about them right now.
This isn't news. I just don't know how to fix it.
Solutions: forward arm sweeps out towards the side of the pool, then sweeps under, instead of just straight out, bend, and back; keep the elbow high, instead of letting it drop; when the hand starts chattering against the water that's the feel, instead of dropping the elbow use it as the anchor.
I could go on all day. We worked longer than one hour, with some time lost to a cut on my finger that opened up and started bleeding again. It was a distraction for me, I sort of lost my focus after that. But the hour+ was well worth it all. Now I'm looking forward to getting back to the pool to test it out. I've been excited before, hopefully this time it all sticks!
Additionally, I got 7-8 hrs of sleep last night and I'm feeling so much better! Hope that sticks too!
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