Drill: bent-elbow sculling

Purpose:
The bent-elbow sculling drill simulates a high-elbow catch.

How to perform the drill:

Lay horizontally in the water, kicking gently to keep your legs afloat. Keeping your elbows high and stable, gently turn your hand inwards at a 45degree angle for the insweep and back out again for the outsweep. Your hands should move in a "figure 8" shape. Really focus on the feeling pressure of water against your hands in all parts of the "figure 8" - this also simulates the pressure you should feel on a proper catch.

Posted by Nadine Bennett, c/o St-Laurent Sharks Masters Swim Club.

Not to be copied, reposted or distributed without club permission.

March 17th, 2013

Drill: bent-elbow press out

Purpose:

The bent-elbow press out drill simulates the high-elbow needed for efficiency in most strokes. While the drill is performed by standing vertically, imagine it being performed horizontally - this would, in effect, be the same positioning in a high-elbow freestyle catch.

How to perform the drill:

Stand at the edge of the pool, hand on the edge, at least shoulder width apart. Press up and out of the water slowly, then back down again. 

Posted by Nadine Bennett, c/o St-Laurent Sharks Masters Swim Club.

Not to be copied, reposted or distributed without club permission.

March 17th, 2013