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#273 : Swim Softer To Go Faster with Brant Best (Part 2 of 3)

The Effortless Swimming Podcast

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The Thumb Drag Drill Is a Good Thumb Drill

I come across quite a few smooths that are jamming themselves up in their recovery because they're trying to swim like they're doing a thumb drag drill and it causes them to lose balance. The the closest thing that we would often do to that would be just your 616 drill 6K x1 strike change over but I make sure when they're doing their recovery that they're not coming like really high over the water  just keep that hand away around the side a little bit where you'd be if you were swimming well. If our elbow is above our shoulder we can't physically be propulsive we can't be on a belly if we're on our side which is why to

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