Improve your front crawl

Unfortunately, a site I really respect, Swim Smooth , recommends avoiding glide, though I do think that a good 80% of the swimmers I see could do with extending the reach of and calming down their front crawl stroke at least some. Bottom line — not too much glide and avoid dead spots.

Swimming is awesome. It seems so simple, but there’s always so much to learn. (disclosure: I’m surely an overglider )

Also see, rotate your elbow, not your hand.

Published 18 Feb 2014

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Rotate your elbow, not your hand

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