New Recovery Practice

[@bassambassam4412]

Thanks very much . Not every coach has the ability to elaborate and demonstrate with such great accuracy and simplicity like this. It is the small details that make huge difference. Much appreciated.

[@skipc6467]

Late comment but you are so right as to problems with traditional recovery. Shoulders will not allow elbow to move easily forward.I'll try this new technique. Thank you for insights.

[@willkiesel2961]

I had a shoulder injury and this video helped in my transition back....thanks Coach Shen

[@tranfc84]

I found this so helpful. Thanks a lot Mr Shen!

[@leeabe3932]

This adjustment is critical because it prevent the hand from dragging in the water creating resistance in the recovery. Your previous method didn't give the hand enough clearance.

[@dshentube]

If you meant that the bent arm recovery practice had the forearm hanging too low to clear the water - you will need to adjust the angle at the elbow in order to clear the water. The drill is meant to train relaxation of the forearm under the elbow, so letting it hang is an exercise. In reality, you want to not let the forearm hang so vertical, and thus there will be a little bit of tension - just enough to bend the arm to a greater angle enough for the hand to clear the water. Having a fully straight arm in this practice enables better creation of whipping energy through centrifugal force. In reality when I swim, you can still see a bent arm at the elbow. So this drill is meant also as an exercise in creating that centrifugal force, which can be better experienced with a straight arm while drilling. Actual swimming reality will likely differ.

[@deenarocco8908]

Thanks so much, I will give it a shot!

[@SWIMSMARTCOACHING]

Absolutely agree with this. Also that invariably when they think they are recovering straight arm it results in something resembling the relaxed bent arm recovery we are looking for.

[@zavorozavoro5064]

Incredible coach

[@Umma1967]

Essentially, he is demonstrating shoulder driven freestyle, which is difficult to maintain in races over 100 meters. I certainly would not use it in distance events.

[@albertfus4730]

That's a great tip. I am newbie and got many difficulties to make the recovery. I test this technique and it looks to be easier to do and it's pretty natural to throw the arm away like that. But does it tire the arm in long distance ?

[@dshentube]

It shouldn't tire the arm as you must be very relaxed and not tight in order to swing the arm fast forward. If you try to use a lot of energy to gain speed, you will tire. this method should be encouraging more relaxation in the shoulder vresus more.

[@bassambassam4412]

Thanks David ..during last week I tried that recovery and compared it with the traditional high elbow..recovery yes it is smoother and more relaxing ..the only disadvantage with this new recovery practice is that the recovered hand is taking longer route (maybe longer time in the air) to come back to the water . As I know, it is always to finish the recovery as quickly as possible (shortest routes will help that) ...your thoughts please..?

[@dshentube]

Examine instead not the hand but the elbow. The path of the elbow in both our older traditional bent arm elbow led recovery is the same as this one. The only differences are tension, focus, and whether we care about the shape of the arm at the elbow being straight or bent or somewhere in between. As long as the elbow is moving in the same path, the two should take the same time. In the New Recovery Practice, we enable force and speed generation by the centrifugal force of the wide path of the hand, that we can add into momentum forward. The bent elbow recovery makes it a bit harder to do that.

[@bassambassam4412]

That makes perfect sense to me ..thank you very much

[@hanskung3278]

I thought the hand, fingers, are close to the water in recovery, this new ways has them way above the water.

[@hanskung3278]

This is not elbow circles, kind of opposite.

[@dshentube]

No they are not elbow circles. Did you have a question about that?

[@hanskung3278]

@@dshentube Well yes....I watched a couple of videos where Terry McLaughlin demonstrates elbow circles which allows your recovery arm to travel in a straight line rather than going in a wide swing.

[@dshentube]

@@hanskung3278 Elbow circles, like this exercise, are an attempt to loosen up your arm and enable you to move it in a way that is more optimal for swimming. Depending on the client, we may use a number of cues to change their existing movement pattern of the arm to one that is more desirable. For some elbow circles are what they need and not this one. For some elbow circles don't work and we need this one. Or both don't work and we use another process (for example, starting with underswitch and building gradually to overswitch, or cueing butterfly arms, etc.). This particular movement has an additional advantage that it can help develop momentum generation with the recovering arm *maybe* a little earlier than with the elbow circle. That can also be done by elbow circles, but that usually comes later if elbow circles are used. Certainly in either case, you need to imprint the proper movement of the recovering arm first, and then we can start adding on top. We use what the client needs at that moment. Does that help?

[@hanskung3278]

@@dshentube Thank you for clarifying that, I've been working on TI along time but I still suck.