Rotation and kick in freestyle - Natalie Coughlin

Here I am again today, I feel quite enthused today, so I'm adding a video from Natalie Coughlin - 10 time Olympic medalist and recent Dances with Stars contestant. The video quality is very good. You can see the smooth rotation of her stroke and the tremendous use of the kick. Notice the "early catch" from the Thorpe videos on the earlier post.

enjoy



Now go and practice - what else you gonna do?

Early Catch Freestlye Demo by Ian Thorpe

Hello all, here is another first for me. embedding a video clip in a blog. hope it works.

here are two clips of 20sec and 17 sec of Former Aussie Swimmer and Olympic legend Ian Thorpe. For all those you have been swimming with me before know that I advocate a "early catch" or High elbow insweep on Freestyle. you can see here to what extent Thorpe was able to attain this.

Enjoy






Now go and practice - what else are you gonna do?

Thursday Nov 19th Regina Masters Swim set

Warm Up

1x400 Easy Choice (long and loose)
8x50 Kick/Swim (working on what kick, determines what stroke on the swim)
16x25 - 4 on each stroke ez/fast x25

Main set

3 sets (all on 10-15 sec rest at a moderate pace)
4x75 R1- Fc/Fly/Fc R2- Fc/Bk/Fc R3- Fc/Brst/Fc
2x150 IM/Fc x25
1x300 Pull breathe 5

Total 3900m 90mins