Alright guys that was day 5
Day 5 is done. We worked on a few important skills today, actually they were
really important. We put the lane lines in, they're not in right now but we put them in
because
we were working on controlling ourselves in the pool
I've got a bad neck right now so the delivery might be a little bit off
Jordan... What did one snowman say to the other snowman
Jordan: You're melting? I don't know Answer: Do you smell carrots?
Because they have a carrot nose? Yes
Number one-- You always want to stay on the right side of the lane
I know this stuff sounds simple but if you don't know, then you don't know
So you've got to hear it to be able to actually do it at practice
You stay on the right side of the lane line. Then when you turn around
you're still on the right side, so you
always stay on the right side. Also the way I like to have my kids space
themselves out
in the pool because if you're not careful
when you start a set-- the coach says Mark Set GO!
A lot of times some of the kids will all start and swim on
top of each other
the way I like to space it out is that when I say Go
the first kid, when their feet get outside of the solid color
that's at the walls, it could be blue, it could be red, it could be
orange whatever your lane lines have, ours are actually red
then the next person goes. Where did George Washington keep his
armies?
Chris: Where? Answer: in his sleevies
what
The next thing we talked about was the basics of backstroke
it's got a couple of key points. The ones that I like to start off with
is a continuous arm motion and that's making sure that you have a continuous
arm motion in the water, we're not dealing with
the actual stroke right now, all we're doing is having a continuous motion
making sure we don't stop at our hips
Because that's where everybody always stops. They do one arm stroke then they stop
and then they do the other arm stroke. So that's one thing, we get the motion
down first and then we turn that into the stroke
Kick is very, very important in breaststroke. It's actually the most important
in breaststroke, as far as how important the kick is
but backstroke is number two as far as what you get out of your kick. So it's really
important to have a nice strong kick
while you're doing backstroke. Now the last thing that we talked about was a hand
rotation
and the hand rotation refers to when your stroke goes back it's very important
that your hand rotates
in order to unlock your shoulder. If your thumb comes out of the water
and it stays on the upside, when you bring it back
it actually locks at your shoulder. So you have to make sure that you have that hand
rotation
that unlocks your shoulder. A lot of times developing backstrokers
younger backstrokers
they'll have a problem with that and their stroke will look real choppy
and it will jerk off to the side. But today's when we worked
on having that nice smooooth hand rotation
that allows for a nice continuous backstroke
we worked on making sure that we have continuous arms
and the continuous arms are very very important
and it allows a nice transition into the
actual stroke. So I start off with big circular arms
Making sure they have that continuous arm swing
and it works out pretty well, just hitting the big basic points and then you
fine tune it into the competitive stroke
The kick is also very important. We worked on that quite a bit
Making sure that we have a strong kick on our back because
your kick is not the thing actually keeps your body up
You should have a balanced body but it does help
So if you have a strong kick it helps to keep you up
in the water and in backstroke you benefit a lot from your kick
So you want to have that strong kick that allows you to generate a lot of force
to make sure you're going fast. So that's what we worked on
with the summer league athletes today and they're all very successful and they
picked up the skills really quickly because
we approached it at a very basic level a very basic level to where
it's these certain points 1, 2, 3, 4
and once we get all of the pieces together then it turns into a pretty
nice stroke, once you can fine tune it into the competitive stroke
so I hope you guys had fun at your practice
if you are out there and you have a joke that you'd like us to use on the show
and I can try it out on the coaches
and you can see if you can make them laugh. I hope you guys had a great
day at practice
Tomorrow we're going to put some more stuff together, we're going to hit some
more basics
So be sure to stay tuned--I will catch you guys
Later---BYE
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pool
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