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Quoted message said:
How's it going? Are you having any success with that 'powerful one side'
yet?
I thought not.
Get your head up and gauge your catch better by sight, there's no reason
for you to be lopsided like you are from what I can see, it's just bad
habit, why stick with it?
Just could swim again, for the first time since that video (remember I can
only swim 1 time a week).
I was baffled, because I payed attention to my left arm stroke, and it
became obvious that I bent it too much. This is simply something I didn't
realize before. The move of my arm had become fully inconscient. I had very
good coaching 20 years ago, then I swam alone for 18 years. And I got
"triathlon coaching" since the last 2 years, which is far from perfect. I
think the bad movement came slowly all along these years, just because when
I breathe on the right, I cannot see my left hand! So the pull became worse
and worse, without me noticing anything.
The good news is that it seems pretty easy to correct. I just have to make a
conscient move, and to concentrate on my left arm pull! The difficulty is
when I become to tired, or not concentrated enough. And my muscles become
quickly tired when I do a correct move with my left arm... just because they
are not used to do the correct move. Hope it will not take years to have a
good natural stroke again.
When I swim bilaterraly, the move seems to become good on both side, with a
much more symmetrical stroke. But I don't get enough air to swim fast - air
supply becomes a performance limiting factor. So I have to breathe on one
side and take advantage of asymmetry, and I will try Eric's tricks for that.
Hope to be able to tape all this soon.
Another point: I don't think I'm much weaker on the left side. When we do
one arm drills, I usually can easily beat with my left arm people that are
as fast as I am with the right arm.
Again, my stroke cannot be THAT bad. At about 1'30"/100m (including
transition T1), I usually finish the swim leg of a triathlon between the
first 10 and 20%. OK, I have 30 years of training, but honestly, with my age
(44), lack of training (1 hr/week), and no particular gift, I can only hope
to win 1 or 2 minutes with a better stroke. Like going from 22'30 min to
21min on a 1500m. Going sub-20 would require much more than stroke technique
improvements (much more hours in the pool, dry land training...)!
Will not try to get my head up. I'm very inflexible, and I get a painfull
neck if I do that.
Quoted message said:Don't forget, well bent arms as you return, and get those fingers walking
on the water, before re-entering, thumb first.....
Will not try thumb first. This has been discussed ad nauseam here, and the
general consensus is that thumb first will lead to shoulder problems on the
long term. Don't want to risk that.
Quoted message said:Learn to breathe on both sides if you want, but imo, if you're swimming
right, you hardly have to turn your head to breathe anyway, so just go
with what supplies your air best....
OK with that.
-- Olivier
