Field Guide to Front Crawl Practice
Course Details:
Date:
Oct 5 2010 (All day)
Location:
Coach:
tyler
Foundation of Front-Crawl Stroke
This list lays out the main components that are required to function for a front-crawl stroke to work, and beyond that are the areas to improve the effectiveness of your stroke, therefore we (you and us) will use these to identify your priorities areas requiring attention. Try to come to each session with a clear understanding of your priority areas. Regularly check in for the weaknesses in other areas as well, to ensure they are continuing to be supportive of your priorities.
- Breathing
- Streamline
- Stability
- Exertion
- Propulsion
- Timing
- Continuity
- Buoyancy
Warm-up
Importance:
- Ease into the water with grace and fun
- Looking to reconnect with our sense of aquatic ability
- Loosen up the body in different postures than those we spend on land
- Initiate a positive and mindful/effective practice based on experiences in warm-up
Practices:
- Gradually working our heart rate up to a state of preparation for exercise
- Discover what temporary obstacles we may encounter
- Discover where we are at with ongoing obstacles
- Discover how we feel with last practices
- Reassess our intended plan with discoveries
- Get a sense of pace options
Endurance/Distance Swim
Practices:
- Select focus points
- Select frequency of focus change
- Select action to take when regaining mindful focus
- Select action to take if often losing focus
- Select when and for how long you will swim free of mind
- Select intensity of swim pace
- Remind oneself of first signs and significant signs of deviation from intended intensity