aquagirl - 2010-01-21 4:19 PM Oh I am glad we have a swimming guru here! I need one!
OK Gary......re pulling lots of water.......since having my stroke kinda fixed up by a number of private sessions last year I notice that when I pull my fingers feel weird. Its almost as if they are vibrating. And I wonder if this is a good sign or a bad sign. I can FEEL the water for sure........something i never really felt before.
Whatcha think?
pretty much what Bopper said ..
if you are feeling the water that is a great sign, I've watched lots of you tube clips of great Oly swimmers, believe it or not quite a few of them have their fingers a little bit apart when they are swimming, which is opposite to anything I"ve heard, but they are well coached and it works for them
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It also could be not your fingers that are vibrating but the sensation of the water going across them that you feeling, like when your hand is out of a car window. which if I were a betting man, would be my bet.
Hey I'm not a guru by any means,, I just have asked lots of questions, from lots of different perspectives and attempted to find the common things that seem to work all the time from various coaches, then asked why.
I grew up on lake erie, been on boats, scuba'd so I was comfortable enough in water to respect it, but not fear it. So the swim in tri's never bothered me, but i wasn't fast. usually just over a 2min/100 when I started out a few years back, Then I just decided that if swimming is the most technical I should devote the most thinking /coaching time to that. But I'm not a super fast swimming yet but I'll get there. I did break 30 min for a HIM swim, when I was the swim relay person, but i think it was about 150 yards short and it was a wet-suit race.
that should be the incentive to learn swimming,, I did my thirty min swim , then went to our cheering section to sit in the shade started drinking and eating bar b q while the rest of them were out in the hot sun, I think i was half tanked by the time the runner had to start