Hi Craig, Would love to but it was a Timelapse “video” so only a shot every 30 seconds or something like that. We also can’t find the original footage! Sorry, but good luck!

@@TriTrainingHarderLLP hi no problem, I knew it was a long shot, if you dont ask you dont get as my mum usr to day lol thank you for getting back to me. All the best 👍

Your mum is definitely right!

Hi Craig, I’ve just done IM Tallinn and they sent me a free trial of FulGaz and that has the IM Wales Course on (along with several others). I think there’s a 14 day free trial available for anyone so hope this helps - and good luck!

@@lifeofvinyl3003 hi. FulGaz is pretty cool I signed up a threw weeks back.

Awesome. Hope you enjoyed it. Good work!

Thanks for your feedback Bob - some interesting food for thought there. We make it clear that this is how we teach the drill, we should also point out that we teach the drill (any drill) and apply it to the swimmer as an individual. So though you find some coaches aim to fit the swimmer to a perpendicular position rigidly (and we mention it in the video), it really depends on the swimmer's shoulder range of motion - you can see they seem to set themselves each breath and gradually fade from that position as they go. Equally, the purpose of putting the arm on their butt is actually to assist in setting the shoulders and ensuring good posture which is key to body position and also alignment, which this drill is also excellent for. It does depend on what you are wanting to do. We certainly don't think there is only one way of doing the drill! You are correct in observing the swimmer's hips may be considered "low", and sure, where possible the hips can be higher. However, in this position, it is difficuly for most swimmers to hold their feed up. Partly due to the speed of doing the drill and also due to the direction of the balancing propulsion of the swimmer's kick. If this is something you would want to be looking to improve, then that is ok. We may have to agree to disagree with that one! We'd hope to get people a little closer to improving their swimming and if this video or any of our videos doesn't help you specifically, then that is upsetting, but let's not forget that there are other ways to instruct aside from you tube! We are confident our coaches poolisde would help to fill any gaps from the video, the theory and the swimmer. It is a shame you find this all so terrible and that we are "awful". However, having been coaching swimmers as an organisation for many years now, we know that at least some of what we say may work as we are seeing improvements even with world champs and top swimmers!

Augustin Testu it’s best to check with the guide. There are usually some open traffic sections or one way traffic.

Good luck!

@@philiphatzis627 Thanks for you answer Philip!

lifang Wang see the other comments! Have you tried both ways? What do you think?

Hi Joseph, Parts of it will be, but this is the 2016 course. The flow of the ground is useful to see what sort of terrain it is. Good Luck!

Thanks!

fkes ngr it mirrors the swimming position and thus body position thereby making the drill more specific to front crawl swimming. You can of course do a similar drill with your head out the water but we find this more effective for the coaching points made! Also you can watch your hands if needs be!

Per Lövgren definitely. It allows you to get into the right positions.

Great to hear Karl, glad it helps! If you can get onto the course, then it will go a long way to helping you feel the course. It really is one of the ones to try and do though - it has fantastic atmosphere!

It can be if you are able to conserve your momentum on the way up after some of the rolling hills. It is not a flat bike course, but there is no 'designated' climbs. The run is very flat and fast along the sea front. This blog: tritrainingharderllpblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/elaine-garvican-ironman-weymouth-race.html is from last year's full distance race, but gives an athlete's perspective of the race and certainly provides some useful insights. Good luck! Philip Hatzis (on behalf of Tri Training Harder)

Hi Ross, We totally agree and we tried to get that set up for everyone. However, maybe next time in the future, that will make an appearance. In the mean time, I don't know if you have also seen our article on Wales? tritrainingharderllpblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/tri-training-harders-course-review-of.html This may help you with some of your other questions you raised as well. If you are racing this year....Good Luck!!!

For the half IRONMAN, there is about 900m of climbing, so it isn't that flat! It is very much one of those rides where you are going up or down. It is good and rolling though...the run is flat!

agreed... this is just front crawl with underwater recovery

+Antara Arvind There is a whole dos of different reasons for this happening, but this is a great example of functional core and stability which is lacking to your non-dominant side. Do you still have your head pointing forwards?

My head is not pointing directly forward in either hand position. The problem is quite bad on the dominant side and is quite forgiving on the . How do we get core stability. I have tried sucking in the belly button as much as possible to get a stable core.

+Antara Arvind Core stability can best be developed with a specific strength and conditioning coach or through one of our coaches. We couldn't really say specifically without seeing you swim/how you moved. Planks or Bunkies tests are a good place to start. As for the head position it doesn't need to be pointing directly forwards, it just needs to be staying still on a line pointing forward. I.e. inline with the black line. Does that make sense?

Thanks a ton for the tips. Will endeavor some more and get back.

+anil mathew Mainly from taking a breath and the slower speeds of the swimmer. As a guy, he is less likely to be quite so buoyant, hence the relatively low hips. Also, due to the fact that the feet are kicking along the horizontal, and not the vertical, the adjustment of balance gained by the swimmer's legs is less than it would be if he was kicking vertically. That said, it could be a lot worse. Notice, the drill is less about the position of the swimmer from that position rather the alignment which is longitudinal.

He has a little bit too much of a gap between head and arm which causes the hip to drop. If he raises arm closer to head that will flatten him out.

Deceptively demanding to get right, but easy to do wrong. Take your time over it, and get it right!