Answers on the following questions: Question 1. What are the important points that should be taught to junior stroke correction classes about the freestyle stroke? Question 2. Should the hand stretch forward to a natural arm extension or should the body roll to increase the forward stretch? Question 3. What emphasis, if any, should be placed on a bent elbow recovery? Is there any real benefit to this as opposed to the straight arm recovery? Question 4. One of my catch cries is "Long and Slow". My swimmers can quote my speeches verbatim (time to make something new up I know) but if I can only have them slow down then they will actually swim faster. I use this for all my stroke teaching. Essentially I want them to feel the water and as a result become aware of the effects of their strokes. How can I build on this to provide some variety and importantly to emphasize the importance of feeling the water? Question 5. For the freestyle entry I teach my swimmers to place the hand in flat with all the fingers pointed down the line of travel. There has been discussion on the benefits of this. For me it enables the swimmer to catch the water with the whole hand and provide a lifting force, similar to that achieved when one lifts themselves over a wall. Others have opined that the hand entry should be thumb first with the hand turned out, whilst others claim that the hand should enter pinky first with the hand turned in slightly. What are the merits of these techniques. My thinking is that I wouldn't want to lift myself over a wall using just my pinky or thumb? General Implication: Author has avoided talking exact movements. Developmental psychology and physiology has shown clearly that teaching intricate technical skill elements is a waste of time in growing children and adolescents. A sudden growth in a limb will change movement positions and sensations. What is relevant before a growth spurt often is irrelevant after it. Coaching juniors is one long series of adjusting new body proportions to achieve overall effects, that is, forward propulsion, while accommodating the new dimensions of arms, legs, hands, and body. Intricate instruction is a waste of time because it could well be irrelevant a very short time later.
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