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How to correct your swimming technique - Skills N' Talents

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This happens very often, a swimmer corrects their technique with some drills in practice and then during the race, after they get a little tired, their technique falls apart and they swim with their old technique. if this is you or if you are a coach and this sounds like one of your swimmers, what can you do to fix this? Here are 2 things you can do for the changes to be more permanent: 1- Spend more time correcting the new technique through repetition. Most of us including me, correct our technique once for about one or two 25s and think that is it! Ill be way faster now! as if it was a new superpower we just acquire. But the truth is we need to practice it way more so that we can swim like that during a race. From what I have seen it depends on how experienced you are as a swimmer. If you are just learning and have less than a years swimming, then two to four days might be enough, because you need to unlearn less than an experienced swimmer. If you have more than 5 to 10 years of swimming experience then you need to work on it for several months for three to four times a week. 2- Correct your technique while you are tired. The way you practice technique corrections is also very important. Most coaches put technique sets at the beginning of practice. This makes sense because technique sets are a good way to warm up and activate the muscles you will need for the main set, You are also fresh, and thus you can think about the movements with more clarity. However, not doing any technique work after or during the main set as well is a big mistake. When you swim past a certain speed your body goes into autopilot and if you have swum only one way while going fast, thats how you will swim during a race, no matter how many drills you do. So we recommend correcting technique while you are tired and going fast so that you swim well in autopilot. Also, remember that the more experience you have the longer it will take you to unlearn an old technique and learn a better one. Has your technique fallen apart while you race? leave us a comment below if it has
Date: 2022-07-18

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Comments and reviews: 7

Sarah
You would not believe how hard it is for someone to learn a better way to swim after not doing it inefficiently for so long. My swim team was not very good at correcting good technique and I'm having to make so many adjustments and corrections just to make sure I'm not going back during a swim at all. The plus is I have good biddy awareness to make these adjustments and work with an instructor a couple times a week. I've been swimming with bad technique for like 15 years because no swim team coach has either the experience or the time to focus on eash swimmer for long periods of time to make sure corrections are done properly. I think people go back into auto pilot because even the smallest changes can feel really uncomfortable and unnatural to your technique you've known for so long. Stay strong everyone who are making changes to your technique. It will make a difference if you stick with it and have someone from above the water watch you on land to reinforce what you feel and what it looks like are right. Whatever your change is, just remember to keep swimming!
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robohippy
I know that for training for sprints, it is recommended to do a bunch of 25 yard, or one length of the short pool, all out sprints. Not sure exactly why since that length is not in competition, well, not that I know of. I think it is to get you practice at that high octane level of swimming. For sure, there is a considerable difference in swimming the 50 yard race to a 100 yard race.
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Ann
The things you say align with my coach so thank you for reinforcing good technique. When I studied karate, we said the same: form is first! Its so hard being older swimmer who is learning and having to turn off my brain wanting to go fast because my kids are so much faster than me!
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ethan
In the hundred fly, I would go fast and my coach says great techniques but around the 75 mark, the form suddenly changes and the time in first and second 50 are very different. Help!
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rob
Just yesterday! My coach noticed me getting sloppy as I got tired. Refocused to tighten up. Maybe a tighter core would help too?
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Josef
ooh, yes, it has. mainly early vertical pulls that are mainly lacking in, well. a fuller pull. esp in the backstroke
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Clive
My coach taught me technique before anything else, before speed, before endurance, he was technique obsessed
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