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I agree. High elbow recovery is overrated. Many amateur swimmers think it's great because their stroke is so atrocious.

Single arm drill with extended arm is there for a reason: though it hinders your rotation it helps you concentrate on the quality of the underwater catch. There are no stupid drills! Every drill has a purpose. If you miss the point it doesn’t mean they are stupid.

Yes! Please make a video on the Tempo Trainer.

The point about about 1-arm free with opposite arm extended messing with rotation is so true! I also don't like doing full catch-up freestyle for the same reason because it delays rotation, which was a problem for me in the past, so I almost never do more than about 80% catchup.

Thanks great talk.

Thanks for this video, really useful. A video on how to use tempo trainer would be great

Tempo trainer video would be great.

Thank you!

Great video!

please teach us how to use that tempo trainer!

Coach alternate drills are good... but some of the rejected drills specially zipper for high elbow recovery is essential... i can not think of swimming free style without a high elbow recovery. Unfortunately i am not an olympian i cant be an olympian but i am a very passionate swimmer. Can you please demonstrate or give an example of some elite swimmer swiming free style without high elbow??

If you use single arm with non propulsion arm by your side, when you breath away from the pulling arm, you should work on timing of the breathing, Makin sure the head doesn't move just a rotation. From the neck, no lift or tilt, it also requires you to have to keep the kick even throughout, if leg kick changes then you know what to work on within the cycle. Breath to the pulling arm, you are focused on maintaining body line during the arm stroke. You touch touch drill is done with the non working g arm extended in front, so that's the same as doing your single arm with extended arm, yes it moves into a full stroke but only with an overloading of the non propulsion vertical hand movement first, so it creates another fault. Rather if your going to do such a drill keep the waiting underwater arm in the position where it has to hold water, sculling, hand pointing at least 45 degree down or at approx 80 degrees just in front of but beneath the shoulder. That's the most propulsion point in the stroke so get good at control of the water there, and transferring the weight of the recovery arm to the propulsion arm...

Thanks Matt, good video (exept advertising) drills 2 and 3 are definetelly pointless. First "bad" drill was widly used by coach Tureckij while training Alexander Popov.

Breathing drills and Prevention of Sinking Legs for beginners?

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What ist Tempo Trainer?

I agree with you. Some drills are really oldfashioned and contribute very little to a good swimming.

I totally disagree with your opinion about the third "zipper" drill. High elbow does not lead to any ingury if you do front quadrant swimming. And it is quite elegant way of recovering without a splash.

What do you think about a beginner using fins for some of these drills ?

Good one!! Hilarious the the drill defenders pop up in the comments section. Thanks.

When I was a lifeguard I found that high elbow drill would always be the first sign of a Runner signed up to do a Triathlon

While not a drill, another “useless “ training tool is the kick board. Maybe it’s helpful for the flat strokes like breast stroke and butterfly stroke but for freestyle the kick board teaches us to look up, the opposite of how we’re supposed to breathe. Although not perfect I’ve done flutter kicks with a snorkel with my arms in streamlined position. Maybe for advanced swimmers the kick board might help their kick but for most of us regular swimmers don’t you think the kick board is teaching us some wrong things and basically unproductive? Thanks

“Heads up freestyle teaches you to swim with your head up”. It’s fine to not understand drills but to dismiss them because you don’t understand them is crazy. Proceeds to recommend fist drill. But by your own logic should you say “Fist drill is bad because it teaches you to swim with a fist instead of open hand”. Embarrassing video.