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Quoted message said:For the interested student (of swimming that is, not politics 🙂
The following site appears to have revamped its video collection a great deal.
swim.eefree.htmlOpen ↗
There's now more videos and they're organized somewhat along training lines. For example, videos
on high elbow catch, low elbow, starts, turns, etc.
It also has the best video on Hackett that I've seen. (And I've seen and studied a lot). It's the
one labelled,
"Hackett Thorpe catch up style"
It shows him from the left side, instead of the usual right.
It puts to the torch to the notion that he's only rolling to his left side a great deal, and
swimming flat during his right side pull in classic loping style. In fact, it looks like he's
rolling almost as much to the left as the right in this race. Now I suspect the reality is that he
probably DOES roll more when the race is shorter, and not
1500m.
Anyways, it's all good stuff. The more you study swim video, the more you realize that you really
need to see the subjects from many angles, above and below water, to even start to get an idea of
what they're doing.
Eric
I forgot to mention that it has some great stuff on "kayaking" verus "catch-up" stroke styles in
freestyles.
In kayaking, the arms moved in opposition to one another. That is, as the recover arm is going
forward the other arm is already pulling through the water. Hence like a kayak paddle, where the two
ends are always 180 degrees out of phase with respect to one another. This is opposed to catch-up,
where the arm in front is left there as long as possible while the stroking arm finishes, and then
recovers in an attempt to "catch-up" with the other arm before it starts stroking.
It's pretty safe to say based on the list of "kayakers" (Popov, VDH, Foster) that this style is
favored by the sprinters. They need to pull on the water as quickly as they can. And the "catch-up"
style is favored by middle and distance specialists. (e.g. Thorpe and Hackett, etc.) They do have a
training video of Thorpe kayaking. As both a sprinter and middle distance swimmer, he obviously
needs to master both styles.
Eric
