Alright alright guys
day two is complete. Big skills that we learned today
we worked on streamlining which is a very important skill
it's probably one of the most important skills especially for
developing swimmers
and that is making sure your body is as skinny
and as tight in the water as possible
For those of you that may be new to swimming a streamline is locking your
arms behind head making sure your hands
are overlapping or overtop of each other
and the big thing about a streamline is making sure
they make your shoulders, which is the widest part of your body
you gonna try to make them one of the
skinniest parts of your body. The next thing we worked with
the little kids we had the five and six-year-olds and
the four-year-old in the water but we really worked on backfloating
with backfloating skills there's a few things to make sure to keep
inline and it makes it a lot easier to perform
and backfloating is not just a survival skill
it's also a skill that
leads into competitive strokes especially with backstroke. It's got certain
components and once you get those down
Then everything else seems to fall in place very, very quickly
Big thing with backfloating when you're first starting to learn
Stay wide in the water, make sure you keep your chest full of air
Keep your lungs full of air
your chin has a lot to do with the the backfloat
if you're chin is down it causes your neck to curl
which causes your back to curl which causes your hips to sink
and if your hips sink then guess what happens to the rest your body?
The rest of your body is going to follow that downward. So if your chin
stays up
It keeps your spine flat
and it keeps it straight and it keeps you hips high and it allows
you to stay on top
of water. The easiest way to keep your hips on the surface
because if your hips sink--you're sinking
the easiest way to keep your hips up is flexing your stomach muscles
When you flex your stomach muscles
your hips com up and they stay in that position which helps to keep you on top
of the water
If you arch your back
this is actually a BAD position to teach to keep your hips up, you really don't
want to arch your back
because it's a bad swimming position. Work on these skills I know I went
through it
really really quickly. We'll recap at the house and
hopefully you guys will pick up on the skills relatively quickly
and you'll put them in place and they'll help you to become successful as well
It's a big deal. If it's not important, I don't mention it at practice
What did the worker say when he got fired from the
rubber band factory? JORDAN: What? Oh Snap!
oh
My assist coach right here said she didn't like my last joke
So I've got another one, we'll see how that one flies. I really don't think she
understood last joke
I think that's why she didn't like it. Alright, What did one hat
say to the other hat? JORDAN: What? You don't have a guess at all?
You stay here, I'll go on ahead
Alright guys voice is still a little bit raspy from practice
I've been a little bit louder than I've been used to you
I had a very good showing today at practice
and the skills that we worked on--everybody did a really good job
we worked on a lot of streamlining skills
and some backfloating skills and all of these basics are very important to get
inline
before you really start hitting the strokes
It's really important to get those things inline first because
if you leap frog or jump over some of the basics
then you really regret it later on because certain things may not work
right and it's because you skipped something in the beginning
So today we did streamlining and went over some of the key mechanics
of backfloating
I hope you guys had fun at practice, at your practice, and I
hope you learned a lot
and when I get to the house we're going to do a recap. Alright, Here We Go
Whoooo! Goodness, Day 2
and I still at this point in my career have not learned my lesson
about wearing sunscreen. So I took my shirt off today, I was in the water
and I've a little bit of tenderness. Yesterday it was my head
today I went with my shirt and I still
am burning myself at this point it's kinda disheartening
At this point in the season, this is day two we're still hitting
some of the basic skills and the big ones that we hit today
#1 we hit the streamline. The streamline is very very important
The streamline is as fast as you will go in the water. You use that on starts
You use that on the turns and you'll never ever swims as fast as you're moving on a
tight streamline. So make sure that you lock it up
nice and tight. The key points are making sure that your hands are overlapped
that they're not beside each other. This is Superman style so that's BAD news
Also making sure that you have it as tight
as you possibly can, locked behind your head. I know it sounds simple
but this is one of those skills that it actually benefit you a whole lot to do it
perfect, not pretty good
There's a whole lot of swimmers out there that have a pretty good streamline
but if you can be one of those that has a perfect streamline
then it really gives you an advantage over the other swimmers
Alright so that was a big big point that we covered today
Also we went over some backfloating skills. Make sure
you keep your chin up
because when your chin drops it causes your spine to
curl which forces your hips down and if your hips sink
then the rest of your body is going to follow and you're going down right afterwards
So keep those lungs full of air, keep that chin up
and make sure that you keep your hips up, hips up by flexing your stomach muscles
NOT, NOT by arching your back
that's a bad habit that can hang around for a long time. Alright, those are
the skills that we worked on today in my practice
So practice those skills and make sure you've got those
inline and the rest of the season is going to be smoooooooth
once you get all of those things inline. We've got more basics coming
tomorrow
So best of luck to everybody. I hope you're enjoying your season
and a I will see you tomorrow. Take Care
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