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There is a relatively bold wave of rumors going around that Michael Phelps is currently trying to alter his freestyle technique into a more “tech savvy” and stroke efficient method. So, with that in mind, keep your eyes open for his first meet in Mid-May in Charlotte! Share . . . → Read More: Look Out For This! Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages…..your Hamden North Haven Swim Team Coach is back with another freestyle technique drill! In a previous post regarding freestyle drills, I discussed the 3 Touch Drill which is a great addition to your drill sets when you want to work on a high elbow recovery for freestyle . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill – Finger Drag There are always multiple ways to extend, modify, or add on to a swimming drill. The 3 touch drill is a great example of how to modify an existing freestyle drill in order to cultivate a more exagerated movement. That being said, let’s go into the variations of the 3 touch freestyle drill. The purpose of this . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill: 3 Touch I was asked by one of our Hamden North Haven Swim Team members this past week about DPS (Distance Per Stroke), and why we do this drill in practice. His thought was that DPS was essentially a pulling set and therefore we should just go into a pulling set and not do DPS. My thought was, . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill – Distance Per Stroke This, I promise will be one of those short and sweet posts for freestyle technique! There are several methods of thought out there with regard to hand position and placement during the entry phase of freestyle. In my travels throughout the swimming world, I have come to agree almost whole-heartedly with one of those schools of thought. . . . → Read More: Freestyle Hand Placement I know this is somewhat redundant and as you read it turns into a bit of a swimming coach’s rambling thoughts on a late night before Master’s Swim Team in the morning, but I want to stress the importance of an Early Vertical Forearm in proper Freestyle Technique! As I mentioned in the previous post, the . . . → Read More: Early Vertical Forearm There are several types of coaches out there, but the common thing that I hope you hear when asking about freestyle technique is the importance of swimming with your forearms! As all of my Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons) know, I stress technique as much as anything else that we do in practice. In my . . . → Read More: Over The Barrel – Early Vertical Forearm There are several swimmers out there that have had, or are having shoulder issues/injuries. However, the debate right now in a lot of forums and social networking sites is if these shoulder injuries are preventable in swimmers. For me, personally and professionally, I absolutley think that a majority of the shoulder injuries can be prevented and/or . . . → Read More: Shoulder Injury In a number of the social networking forums that I participate in have been talking/debating how to properly breath during freestyle. From these debates there are generally two schools of thought: When you take a breath, hold your breath as long as you can throughout your strokes. So, which one is the right technique . . . → Read More: Freestyle Breathing We are reaching the end of our first week in the short course season for the YMCA Yankee Cluster League. We (the Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoons) have a significantly larger team than we did last year (which I am so happy to see), and we will hopefully have a great improvement throughout the year! As a reminder . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team |
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