{"id":323,"date":"2010-06-05T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2010\/06\/05\/grant_hackett_and_ian_thrope_swimming_analysis\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:47:11","slug":"grant_hackett_and_ian_thrope_swimming_analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/grant_hackett_and_ian_thrope_swimming_analysis.html","title":{"rendered":"Grant Hackett and Ian Thrope Swimming Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TI coach Dave Cameron posted this <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/anp6TP\">amazing series of photos analyzing the freestyle stroke of Grant Hackett and Ian Thrope<\/a>.<br \/>\nTwo things I wanted to point out which were very interesting to me:<br \/>\nFirst, in pictures 5 and 6, it&#8217;s unbelievable to see how high their elbows are on the catch.  I tried this and it seemed kind of awkward, and I think ultimately I probably dropped my elbow much more than these swimmers did.  I also didn&#8217;t feel the full advantage afforded by such a high elbow catch.  I hope to work on this more as the beginning TI drills we tend to spear to a certain low position, versus spearing more horizontal and then catching from there, which tends to be something we work on after we get past the beginning drills.<br \/>\nSecond, in 14, the text says that in a picture of Hackett that he presses his chest down while breathing.  Breathing up to this point for me has always seemed to stop me dead during that moment.  So I began trying to press the armpit\/chest right at the moment of breathing and some interesting things happened:<br \/>\n1. At the moment of pressing, my head sank very fast and there was only a small moment when I could take my breath before water encircled my sideways facing mouth.  This was in contrast to being simply turned and I had more time to take a breath.<br \/>\n2. When I consciously pressed at the breathing moment, my hips rode higher and my momentum was preserved much better, meaning that I still had forward movement versus coming to a stop during the breath.<br \/>\nI hope to see more of these analyses of top swimmers.  It&#8217;s so instructive to see how they move through the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TI coach Dave Cameron posted this amazing series of photos analyzing the freestyle stroke of Grant Hackett and Ian Thrope. Two things I wanted to point out which were very interesting to me: First, in pictures 5 and 6, it&#8217;s unbelievable to see how high their elbows are on the catch. I tried this and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}