06-06-2007, 07:02 PM
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Just Plain SENIOR
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SPURSville, Texas
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You can't really link to a specific thread at the TI website but here's something I searched today:
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i originally posted this elsewhere, but on seeing your post i think maybe it belongs here... kinda... sorta.... maybe....
along these lines, something i noticed last night while swimming with my hands held in a fist. (simulating swimming with fistgloves.)
understandably there was little pressure from the water on my hands.... i decided to take it to the next logical progression. that is to say, that after hand entry and spearing, i not only focused on a weightless arm, but i also focused on not pulling at all with that arm, but rather, allowing the arm rotate below me as my body flowed over the point where my hand was....
this was such an entirely different focus on my hand. normally, when i pay attention to my hand it is to quickly mind-check the position, flexion and tension... focusing on not pulling but anchoring at a 'fixed' point in water really changes the perception of what one is doing. watching the bottom of the pool slide by knowing there is no pulling going on truly drove home that propulsion is coming from the hips and shoulders.
in thinking on this, it occurs to me that while providing no propulsion, the hands were critical to providing a balanced long axis that is so necessary for an efficient streamlined body in the water. the smooth movement through the water coming from an efficient, balanced form and a strong, active core.
or so it seems to me... but what do i know?
jim
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On 3/22/2007 9:57:34 PM, Jim Sanders wrote:
>i decided to
>take it to the next logical
>progression. that is to say,
>that after hand entry and
>spearing, i not only focused
>on a weightless arm, but i
>also focused on not pulling at
>all with that arm, but rather,
>allowing the arm rotate below
>me as my body flowed over the
>point where my hand was....
I did exactly this when I was learning to "not pull" myself. For another interesting variation, extend just the index finger from your fist. How much purchase can you achieve and maintain with just that finger?
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