Day 13 & 14: The Catch

The past 2 days I have been working on trying to figure out the hip rotation and catch relationship. Today during my swim I found that if I catch/anchor with my hand that it helps provide leverage for the rotation.

That seemed to help with getting some kind of way to start the rotation instead of not having anything to work against.

I also tried to swim just trying to keep my stroke count the same. I have no idea how many lengths I swam but I kept my stroke count at 16 with an occasional 15. I found that the only thing I could hold as a focus for that amount of time was the patient hand and relaxed head. If I let that go I lost my stroke completely. Taught me that I am definitely not "advanced".

I also ran a bit on an experiment. I did some lengths exculsively breathing on one side or the other and found that when I breathed on teh left side I did 16 strokes/length when I breathed on the right I did 15 strokes per length. I think the difference is that my left arm tends to swing instead of lift on the recovery. The other thing is that when I breath on the left I find that my pulling hand tends to pull under my body and I think I lose part of the catch becausemy hand loses it's grip on the water because it does the "s" and my hand changes its catch.