Name: Swimisodes - Improve Freestyle Technique - Head Position
Uploaded: 2016-02-27T08:14:33.000Z
Duration: 4 min 16 s
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So today we are going to go back to fundamentals.

We're going to-- we're going to pay attention to,

and we're going to learn from, the three basic laws that

No matter whether it's fly-back, breast or free.

And those are the ones that I call the number one

We have to really pay attention to how to minimize those.

The second group of laws are the ones that allow you to go.

And we have to maximize power to the best of our ability

to get down to the other end of the pool.

And the third law, which is called the law of inertia,

basically says, that a body in motion wants to stay in motion.

That means that we want to keep our speed constant.

There's really only two strokes that we can do that in,

The fly and breast are stop and go strokes.

So we're going to work on some drills for each

(narrator) Sculling with the head above water

to demonstrate that an elevated head also changes the body's

Olympic champion and world record holder Roland Schoeman

sculls with his hands extended forward, moving them outward

While his head is above water, and his feet near the surface,

several inches below the water level creating

For any swimmer, tall or short, deviating from a straight body

position will create a lot more frontal drag particularly when

by creating more of a bow wave striking against the swimmer's

demonstrates how this overly elevated head causes a huge bow

wave colliding against her head, slowing her down

From underwater, the elevated head position

So this time, I want you to drop your chin

where your bum is in the water in the body position.

(narrator) Once the head is in the down position

with the line of sight directed toward the bottom of the pool

rather than forward, the body position changes instantly.

The bum comes up to the surface, and from head to toes

With his elbows held high in front, arms nearly straight,

Roland keeps constant pressure on his hands

immediately reverses the direction of the hands inward.

are helping to lift the front of the body.

But all the propulsion comes from the legs.

If you're a beginner or don't have enough propulsion

from your kick to do this drill well, try doing it with fins

which causes the body to bounce up and down,

or allow the hands and elbows to drop too deeply in the water,

or allow the elbows to fall back to the ears, all of which

When the head is positioned correctly in freestyle

the bow wave flows nicely over the top of the head.

And he moves forward with the least amount