Purpose
- Correcting your stroke problems while breathing: pressing down, pulling through wide, catching early or late
- Improving the alignment of your catch as you breathe
- Preventing the lead hand crossing over the centre line when breathing
Javelin Drill
Key Points
- Kick on side with fins and a Finis freestyler paddle on the lead arm only
- Tune into your alignment of the lead hand and your posture, pulling your shoulder blades together and back
- Continuously exhale, rotate your head to breathe in keeping one eye in the water
- Transition into full stroke breathing every 4 strokes to keep breathing away from the paddle
- Rotate the body away from the lead arm as you stretch forwards and catch
- Feel the extra support and provided by the paddle
- Tune into any feedback from the paddle- whether you’re crossing over or dropping that hand before you’ve finished taking a breath
- Repeat on the other side
Progression into full stroke
- You’ll feel the magic of Javelin when you swim freestyle immediately after performing the drill, keep the fins and paddle on that same lead hand and feel the easier rhythm and timing of the stroke
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