Anchoring 2 - Turning Theory into Practise

[@clee6746]

You don't just tell people how to do it, you explain why as well. Great video on swim coaching !

[@thanhluong8297]

Thank you Sir for the best pull instructions I love your pro explanation...

[@nname71]

Sir thanks for the excellent advice... I will surely practice, hats off to your teaching spirit

[@drdecco1]

Kudos, you sure can explain well - clearly.... crystal! Cannot wait to bring your advice to this 62 y.o. weak swimmers next brief swim in the sea 👍

[@kumite1984]

This is one of the best pull-phase explanations on youtube, thank you! I have an all-beginner-swimming related question: my allout 100m time is 2:00 right now. How do i identify what I am lacking, what i am doing wrong. So basically: what are the 3-5 biggest limiting factors? I limit to 3-5, because i don't think a beginner can focus on more than that for 4-10 weeks. Is it fitness? Is it the catch? Is it the entry? Is it core engagement? Is it shoulder mobility? Is it hip flexor mobility? Is it strength? Is it is it is it? :)

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Hi Kumite, thanks for that. The 2 major factors affecting a new swimmers are 1. Breathing and 2. Balance. Crack those 2 and everything else can fall into place, neglect those 2 and you will continually struggle. I'll think about how I can express that and perhaps 3 other major faults in another video. Cheers.

[@kumite1984]

@@SwimCycleRunCoach wow, thanks a lot!

[@dwell-on-the-past]

Thank you very much! very much!

[@karimham7073]

hello ! i'm frome Algeria if you know that country, and i watched many videos on youtube but yours are really better especially more detailed and step by step explanations with examples after ! thanks for your work :)

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Thanks for your kind words.

[@venkateshmc7212]

Thanks for taking the time to clarify. And yes, it's clear now. The catching arm is stationary in the sense that the body has moved forward more than the arm has moved backwards. That is, as you say, efficiency > 1. A different question though: the movement of my arm from when it enters the water horizontally till when it has caught the water, this movement seems very deliberate and not fluid. In fact the rest of my body almost becomes static while I'm concentrating on doing this slowly. But maybe that'll improve with practice. But overall, my stroke length has greatly improved because of this. Thank you for that.

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Yes, that's the problem, making the move to the catch smooth and not forced. You literally have to do drills like the single armed drill, really concentrating on rotating to the other side while moving smoothly into the catch position. Even stopping once you're in the catch position helps, as you can then accelerate backwards effectively. Hope that helps.

[@venkateshmc7212]

@@SwimCycleRunCoach Certainly does. So I shall focus on "rotating into the catch position", if I am right to paraphrase you that way. That makes sense. Thanks again.

[@Wheel333]

Windsurfing so cool, so retro. Thanks for this video it really helps. I was wondering on your tips for reducing bubbles on hand and arm entry.

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Wheel333 I have got a Kite for Kitesurfing, but it takes so long - and I’m not very good. Will try to deal with the arm entry soon.

[@dianabenobo]

How about if I try to put my arm in the water so that it creates a thousand toroidal vortices as though it were a stream tube. What then if I stretch those toroidal vortices laterally creaating first one leading edge vortex and then shear away to another? Would that create that hole in the water?

[@trykozmaksym]

So answering Venkatesh MC's question (if I get it right), the concept of anchoring should not be understood literally - the water is not rigid. Its purpose is building the right technique - create an anchor first, pull straight second - not downwards, not sideways - and accelerate towards the end in order to keep the pressure.

[@venkateshmc7212]

I agree.

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

That's right. As the body rotates the arm will change it's orientation relative to the body but the aim is a move relatively backwards.

[@dinicti]

Another great video. Question, I have is how much of anchoring is dependent upon body rotation?

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

dinicti another good question. The nature of rotation tends to depend on the style of swimmer. Long swimmers rotate more than fast stroking swimmers and the latter would tend to have an arm entry in the shape of the arm at the catch.

[@Styjimon]

Hello. I have question about different swim topic. How to change strokes when I'm tired and want to slow down a little but I don't want to reduce stroke rate because want to breathe with the same frequency? There are different options. I can drop elbow to catch less water. Or close palms. Or I can make shorter strokes. What is the most efficient way of reducing load? Thank you.

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

You really need to practice a stroke rate and breathing pattern you can maintain for the whole swim. Even paced swimming would be better than developing poor stroke mechanics just because you're fatigued.

[@stevenhoppe9089]

If you could draw a centre line from front to back along your body. How far away from the centre line should your hands be ?

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Good question. However, the distance depends on your size and the angle of your forearm to your upper arm. The greater the angle the deeper your arm will in the water and the further away from your chest. Generally sprinters are deeper than longer distance swims, they are trying to use all their arm to generate speed and they will therefore have a hand further away from their body. If you're a longer distance swimmer and make the angle between 90 and 110 degrees you should maximise your hold on the water without compromising your shoulder.

[@239nguyen]

Thank you for the good advice. Can you please talk about butterfly arm progression? Do you anchor arms (high elbow) in butterfly? Another issue I have with butterfly is that it seems that we have to breathe in during the last half of the arm pull, which i find quite unnatural. (Usually we breathe out when exerting force, right?) Please advise -- very much appreciate it!

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Hi Nguyen, IN butterfly it's really important that your arms accelerate to the back of the pull, so your arms can exit the water at speed. You start breathing just before the arms exit and your head re-enters the water as the arms pass your head. So, you anchor your arms as far forward as you can and accelerate from there to the end. A nice curved position in the arms at the front is best. Cheers

[@239nguyen]

@@SwimCycleRunCoach thank you for your advice!!!

[@RajeshKumar-mx2en]

thanks for your good advice please give butter also

[@2rudha]

thanks a lot sir

[@2379030]

Can you tell me How to not pulling my hand underwater to early please?

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Hi, Try starting by practising the catchup drill and then move to near catch up with finger drag and then full swimming with near catch up. Once you have that mastered you can adjust it and see which form works best for you. Hope that help

[@danischettig1053]

How can i keep water out of my nose when swimming

[@SwimCycleRunCoach]

Dani Schettig breathe out through your nose. Just trickle breathe as opposed to exhaling explosively and it should work.

[@stafili]

Why haven't I heard this before?

[@mikechun4734]

I’m #2 😖