Busy days however still training hard!
Nov
10Busy days however still training hard!
Posted by Kevin Doak on Monday at: 6:51am (November 10th, 2008)
I've missed a few blogging days, but I've been in the pool consistently each day. I had an eventful weekend balancing work, and handling some freelance event photography of the EMU swim meets this past Friday and Saturday. I had a chance to swim either before or during the meets on each day in between taking over 3,000 pictures of the competition! My Saturday was filled with working in the morning, attending an age group meet, swimming 3,000 yards, getting out, taking 2,000 pictures of the meet, doing weights during a diving break and then taking more pictures. It was a diverse and exciting weekend. The pictures are a huge hit on my "unofficial" EMU swimming site: www.emuswim.com
During my practice today I was approached by a well respected Eastern Alumni Kelton who coaches Huron High School in Ann Arbor. In passing he mentioned that while swimming backstroke I was rotating my hips late. He used the quick analogy of "hips before hands". I was lifting my hand out of the water before I rotated my hip. He noticed this during warmup so I'm not entirely sure if this is a mistake I'm making consistently or not. I corrected the error in my stroke and it definitely feels different. I'll experiment with it more this week and determine if I can benefit from the change. Thanks Kelton for the heads up!
During my practice today I was approached by a well respected Eastern Alumni Kelton who coaches Huron High School in Ann Arbor. In passing he mentioned that while swimming backstroke I was rotating my hips late. He used the quick analogy of "hips before hands". I was lifting my hand out of the water before I rotated my hip. He noticed this during warmup so I'm not entirely sure if this is a mistake I'm making consistently or not. I corrected the error in my stroke and it definitely feels different. I'll experiment with it more this week and determine if I can benefit from the change. Thanks Kelton for the heads up!