One of the drills he does in the butterfly as well as the head up, I think that's probably something that I don't do typically, is the breathing with the head up, which I'm sure makes it much more difficult. That's probably why I don't do it. This one is backstroke. We'll go right arm, left arm. It's two right, two left, and two full.
I'll do it coming back and then I'll do another drill. It's like one of my favorites. It's kind of the hardest one.
It's called spinning. I think his one arm backstroke is faster than my two arm backstroke. His backstroke is faster than mine with one arm.
Alright, this one is spin drill. You guys have never seen it before. What you want to do is like, you basically want to pop up, you want to spin your arms as fast as possible with not using your legs.
It's going to look really weird, but it's kind of fun. I wish I could be out of water for two weeks and look that smooth. What's the, of the drill you just did, the spin drill, what is the purpose of it that you're trying to, what are you trying to accomplish? Uh, definitely, uh, well, it's supposed to do two things.
It's supposed to do rotation, like fast rotation and... And also just to get your arms moving fast. Like, there's a lot of swimmers that just, with backstroke, so they're on their back, and you think it's, like, a real, like, lazy stroke.
So you think it's, like, just easy swimming, but really when you're racing, and like it's really up-tempo so particularly in breaststroke the biggest thing that like helped me was I wanted to get better at it so the only way I could not better at it like every day in practice we don't do like 10 200s breaststroke anything long like that it's like really short so anytime I do breaststroke I'm sprinting breaststroke and that's what I told myself I was like no matter what happens like I could be dead tired I'm just gonna end up sprinting breaststroke and like later on I just I'm getting faster and faster now it's become one of my most dominant strokes I'm gonna do a breaststroke pull with a butterfly kick. It's probably one of my favorite breaststroke drills So how does it feel to be back in the water after a couple weeks? I feel like I've just started swimming again. Okay, we'll move on to freestyle. Two drills I like to do in freestyle.
There's one, it's catch-up drill. I'm sure everyone knows what catch-up drill is. You just hesitate at each front of your stroke.
Also, there's a fingertip drag drill that I like to do. So even though. One of the easiest drills to do is probably taking a time to do it the right way.
You mean they naturally do that? Yeah. How much do you focus on your technique and your stroke drills during the season?
Does he coach you quite a bit on, you know, Ryan, you're pulling too far underneath your body or anything like that? Do you always watch him? Yeah, like...
The first in season, when everyone starts off in August, late August, what we'll do is the first month to two months, all it is is strokes. It's technique, it's drills. nothing hard nothing fast they're just working on our technique so when we do start training you already had like two months of working at it so it should be just like natural one of the questions i i also had was the freestyle windmill stroke that people are starting to use toward the end of races um what what point do you start using that at the end of some of your races um i picked that up from sprinters um i know a lot of sprinters do that now uh just because it's quicker to get their arm moving over and pulling more water quicker. But, I mean, distance swimmers are not going to be able to do that because there's no way any swimmer can do a straight arm stroke for about more than like 100 meters.
So that's what I picked up, and we've been practicing it. I've only been doing it only for finishes, so, I mean, that's where it really helps me out a lot is that last stroke. that you take that last breath after I take that it's probably about 12 meters out I take that last stroke and then I start doing a my straight arm all the way to the finish.
Can you show us maybe go about 12 yards out your normal stroke freestyle and then come back with the windmill to show us the difference? Thanks. Get out of the way because I'm gonna get wet. I'll do it so you can see the difference. I think next session we want to talk about starts and turns.
If you could show us turns and what you think about with each of the turns and what you think the important parts of each of the turns are, especially the individual medley, the I.M. We'll start with butterfly to backstroke. All right, what you want to, the biggest thing in turns is people think, all right, the wall's coming, so there's my chance to get my breath. There's my chance to rest on the wall. That's probably one of the biggest things that I want to tell anyone, is that turns are just there because it happened to me.
I don't want swimmers to rest on that wall. You want to get in and out of that wall as quick as possible. So what you want to do is you can take your breath when you want to breathe and take your breath and relax in the middle of the pool, not at the wall.
That's probably one of the biggest things. From fly to back, all it is is just putting your head down and driving. You want to drive your knee into the wall. Well, not into it, but drive your knee into a tuck position as quick as possible. That's going to allow you to rotate faster.
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