Swimming High Elbow & Front Quadrant

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
15,070
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jan 20, 2009

A discussion on gliding vs front quadrant swimming in freestyle

  • likes, 1 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Uploader Comments (evanscoaching)

  • I wish you were my coach many years ago.. I have to revamp the stroke and it is taking forever ( almost one year) so your videos help explain things much clearer for us without coaches and other to support us.

  • @poolrattie Thanks for your comments. Best of luck.

  • Coach I have one simple question. With each stroke we rotate a little to both sides. My question is: do we start to catch (pull) water when we are on our side or do we start to catch the water when we start to rotate? Thank you!

  • @bylejakie The "catch" occurs early in my opinion. What some believe is a glide is actually not. You should "catch" the water at the very instant the opposite hand is releasing. It's about timing and contiuuing the momentum.

  • I first learned about this from "Total Immersion"

    Coach Rick

  • @pocketcharts12 I have coached dozens of "Total Immersion" swimmers and the common trend has been a "long glide". I have not read or seen any of their work first hand yet, I think they're best with body balance techniques and not so good at teaching how to maintain the continuum of the stroke. But that said, I do not have any criticisms except that it is very difficult to teach more than one person at a time and there are mobility, stability issues that should be coupled when teaching. Thanks.

see all

All Comments (21)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • @pocketcharts12

    TI teaches long glide, not front quadrant. And I agree, the TI body balance drills are excellent, and valuable for everyone. But I would agree that there is a loss of velocity with long-glide, and I would also postulate that there is a greater tendency to drop the elbow before the pull, which leads to ineffeciency. Thanks you Coach Evans, excellent breakdown of front quadrant mechanics--I will share this video with my students!

  • Much appreciated...Thanks.

  • Thanks and I hope this helps you...

  • very good advice, many people are not aware of this and attempt to glide too long on one side - I see it all the time

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more