{"id":1029,"date":"2014-12-24T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2014-12-24T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:59:42","slug":"a-little-goes-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/a-little-goes-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A little goes a long way"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little change in angle and pressure of the lead arm, goes a long way towards efficient forward momentum.<\/p>\n

This was highlighted during\u00a0a lesson this week at the Discovery Aquatics\u00a0studio. The use of Finis Agility Paddles in combination with the current of the Endless Pool instantly brought awareness to the discrepancies between right and left lead arm shape, pressure, impact on the water and forward momentum.<\/p>\n

The image below illustrates the difference in water disturbance between the right and left lead arm.<\/p>\n

 
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The optimal shape and pressure of the right lead arm produces less drag and turbulence = calm water. The forward momentum here is faster and requires less energy. The left lead arm only needs small changes in shape and pressure to eliminate the busy water.<\/p>\n

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The big question – how do we make those changes? The control of lead arm shape and pressure comes from the upper torso.<\/p>\n

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We use the Total Immersion exercises of Skate (to find<\/em> optimal hydrodynamic body shape) and SwingSwitch (to control<\/em> optimal hydrodynamic body shape and pressure) to bring awareness and ingrain new movement pathways.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the lesson the Endless Pool was at 1:35\/100yard pace. It was no surprise that he was cruising at 1:08\/100yard towards the end. A little goes a long way.<\/p>\n

Read more on shape, direction and pressure here.
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A little change in angle and pressure of the lead arm, goes a long way towards efficient forward momentum. This was highlighted during\u00a0a lesson this week at the Discovery Aquatics\u00a0studio. The use of Finis Agility Paddles in combination with the current of the Endless Pool instantly brought awareness to the discrepancies between right and left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoveryaquatics.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}