Alright, pretty good day at practice today
the reason that i'm gonna deliver all of the information when I get to the house
today is because it actually started raining on us
So sorry about that but everything is gonna have to be from
the house. Here we go guys
I've got Trenton right here. Trenton: Hey there you go, I'm going to ask him a joke
What side of a leopard has the most spots?
Trenton: The front No, the outside
The things that we worked on today are important stuff. We worked on our
back floating
once again and we also worked on
not using the lane lines. I actually don't like to put in until the second week
out of practice because when you don't have the lane lines in
you learn how to keep your body in a straight line, you learn how to control
your body a little bit more
it you're having to do it. If you have the lane lines in place then it's kinda
easy to
keep yourself going in a straight line but that doesn't actually help you
train yourself how to keep your body going in a straight line.
So we keep those out at the very beginning and a I go over a few skills with the
kids to help them actually
keep themselves directionally sound
and keep themselves balanced in the water. This is Coach John
right here. How do you think the season is going so far? JOHN: very well very well
Very strong swimming
I think everybody's doing great
awesome me too. The big thing with the kickboard is that we worked on
on the front we work basically on our front at the very beginning and then we
moved to our back
now with our back we talked about yesterday some back floating skills
those still apply
when you're working with the kick board
But it's a little bit harder to keep yourself moving in a straight line
and it's actually good not to have the lane lines in because
your faults that you have which you want to learn now, you want to learn at the
beginning of the season--you want to see what those are
then you can see those early on and you can correct them it's not something
that
while you're swimming in a meet a little bit later on in the season
you're gonna swimming from one side of the lane to the other you're actually
going in a straight line
because if a pool is 25 yards long
you actually want to swim 25 yards but if you're zig-zagging down the pool
if you're going back and forth you'll swim 27, 28, 29 yards and you can
imagine what that gives up in a race
so I like to train my athletes to be able to swim in a straight line
on their own from the very beginning. I tried this on Trenton earlier
He thought it was okay. Which side
of a leopard has the most spots? The outside Jordan: Really ??
Now, a couple of the skills that we worked on
was our kick. You want to make sure that your kick
is balanced. Meaning that you're kicking the same
with your right leg as you are with your left leg. You want to have
a nice, strong, solid kick
that is balance. Remember, long legs
floppy feet but you want to make sure that you don't have not one
going soft and the other one is much more powerful
anything like that will actually cause you to curve
in the water which is actually BAD NEWS when you're swimming
so you want to make sure that everything stays balanced
Also, while you are swimming especially on your back
is that you want to make sure that your body is in a straight
balanced line that rotates from side to side
one thing that you don't want to do in anyway and it's amplified
its much more obvious when you're on your back is that if you have a tilt
or sway on your back in anyway
then you will have a huge effect in the water and you may not know it because if
you've got the lane lines up
you'll be hitting the lane lines and self-correcting the whole time
if the lane lines aren't up
then when you're doing skills on your back, if you have a little bit
of a bend
while you're on your back, then it's really
amplified and it causes a BIG bend in the pool
How to get the kickboard behind your head can be a a real
obstacle with some kids. It's because when you're on your stomach
you can push off walls, it's no biggie because it's out in front of you
So you can just lay it out in front and you're ready to go.
But when you get on your back a lot of times it creates this
awkwardness to where you're not sure how to start kicking
on your back and be able to get the kick board up. So you see kids with
the kick board off to the side
and they're bending it in the water and they can't ever get it placed behind
them
so that's kind of a big deal with some of them
just to figure out that skill. But the easiest way that I have found is to
take the kickboard
and just plop it straight back and go
that's it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed the show, I hope you learned a
little bit
and I will see you tomorrow
Sorry again for the setup but we had a little weather at the pool
and I couldn't do the filming like I normally do. Alright so hang in the there
and as always if you have any questions or concerns please let me know I will
answer them as soon as I can
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